02 Dec 06 - 01:50 PM (#1898417) Subject: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST I've searched the DT for songs about virgins, and found some stuff, but I was wondering if anyone out there had any more suggestions, sources, or songs. I'm trying to explore the various depictions of virgins- curious, prudish, eager, etc.- through song. Thanks! |
02 Dec 06 - 01:55 PM (#1898420) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST,dRwORD I'm sure you'll find _The bold librarian_ in the digital tradition, which mght suit your search criterion. cheers, d. |
02 Dec 06 - 02:24 PM (#1898443) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Susan of DT A search for maidenhead yields a long list For the various attitudes Maid on the Shore Blow Away the Morning Dew Old Maid in a Garret (and the other old maid songs) No Courage in Him Never Wed an Old Man Knight and the Shephers's Daughter Sentry Box Widow of Westmoreland's Daughter there are sooo many... |
02 Dec 06 - 02:33 PM (#1898450) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Joe Offer Of course, those "maidenhead" songs may start out being about virgins.... |
02 Dec 06 - 03:21 PM (#1898475) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Amos By definition! :D A |
02 Dec 06 - 03:22 PM (#1898479) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST, ... Cherry Tree Carol (see 'Surrepetitious paternity tests' thread, below) |
02 Dec 06 - 03:30 PM (#1898491) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Genie Yes, Joe, a song sung in the voice of a long-since 'deflowered' woman may refer to when and how she lost that maidenhead: "Oh, we left 'em in the ale house And passed the jug around!" (Three Drunken Maidens) "Four and twenty virgins came down from Inverness ..." (The Ball At Kierymuir) (sp?) "Earl Marshall had my maidenhead underneath these cloths of gold." (Eleanor & Henry) Paddy Graber sings a song called "Arbutus Tree" that would fit your category. (She prays to the gods for rescue from a forced 'maidenhead-verification procedure' and is turned into a tree.) The song "Unquiet Grave" is one of many songs that alludes to virginity in the context of impossible things: "Go bring me water from the desert Or blood from out a stone. Go bring me milk from a young maid's breast That young man never has known." |
02 Dec 06 - 03:39 PM (#1898497) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Uncle_DaveO Do Virgins Taste Better? Clean up your dirty mind. It's about the traditional favorite food of dragons. In DT Well, I have to admit there's a slight bawdy joke at the end of the song. Dave Oesterreich |
02 Dec 06 - 03:41 PM (#1898500) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Uncle_DaveO Oh, I was going to mention that I understand it's intended to be sung to The Irish Washerwoman, but I find that hard to sing and also hard to understand. I sing it to the tune of Villikins and His Dinah. Dave Oesterreich |
02 Dec 06 - 03:54 PM (#1898510) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: gnu Easy and Slow.... "T'was down by Christchurch that I first met with Annie...." Now... I don't know about virgin, but, she was not a bit shy as I rolled up my sleeve, for to... Many explanations. I will leave you to the sordid ones. And, no, "sleeve" is not not on one's arm. |
02 Dec 06 - 04:37 PM (#1898541) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Desert Dancer Guest (threadstarter): how about posting the results of your searches? It'll reduce the redundancy in replies, and p'raps provide something useful for later readers. ~ Becky in Tucson |
02 Dec 06 - 04:40 PM (#1898544) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Schantieman What the hell have they got to sing about? ;-) S |
02 Dec 06 - 06:35 PM (#1898657) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST,Calico Fantasies? |
02 Dec 06 - 06:38 PM (#1898660) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST,memyself Probably about as much as most of the rest of us around here ... |
02 Dec 06 - 06:40 PM (#1898663) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Greg B To the tune of Reuben Reuben... Caviar's made from virgin sturgeons Virgin sturgeon's a very rare fish No good sturgeon wants to be a virgin That's why caviar is my dish |
02 Dec 06 - 07:13 PM (#1898682) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Joybell I always like the "...round young virgin..." in "Silent Night". I've heard it that way since 1944. Cheers, Joy |
02 Dec 06 - 07:27 PM (#1898687) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST,Calico I thought it was "Round John Virgin." |
02 Dec 06 - 07:57 PM (#1898710) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: gnu Closer... |
02 Dec 06 - 08:04 PM (#1898712) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Bonecruncher What's a virgin? They're as rare as the songs about them! Colyn. |
02 Dec 06 - 08:11 PM (#1898715) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Homeless You can hear the Brobdingnagian Bards sing Do Virgins Taste Better to the tune of Irish Washerwoman here |
02 Dec 06 - 08:18 PM (#1898722) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Desert Dancer Here's a couple: Broomfield Hiil / Broomfield Wager: "A wager, a wager with you, my pretty maid, Here's five hundred pound to your ten That a maid you shall go to yon merry green broom, But a maid you shall no more return" Lovely Joan: Then he pulled off his ring of gold "My pretty little miss, do this behold. I'd freely give it for your maidenhead And her cheeks they blushed like the roses red." "Give me that ring into my hand And I will neither stay nor stand, For this would do more good to me Than twenty maidenheads," said she. (More maidenheads per verse than any other song!) You could probably search on "maid" as well as "maidenhead", though you might have to be selective in the resulting list. ~ Becky in Tucson |
02 Dec 06 - 08:51 PM (#1898730) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST,.gargoyle Go to immortalia John will have lots of good stuff for you.
Sincerely,
references on the Mudcat site. |
02 Dec 06 - 08:54 PM (#1898732) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST,Scoville at Dad's We used to play a tune called "Greasy Coat", which we originally were told was about alcohol, but which someone later told me (I guess when he thought I was old enough) that it was another maidenhead reference. I don't drink and I don't smoke, I stay away from the greasy coat. I don't smoke and I don't chew, I stay away from the girls that do. So maybe it was the MAN who was the virgin in this one? |
02 Dec 06 - 08:58 PM (#1898736) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST,Scoville at Dad's Actually, as I just got on the Internet to find the words to Bob Wills' "Maiden's Prayer", which isn't specifically about virgins but which I always thought must be fair game for double entendres. |
02 Dec 06 - 09:03 PM (#1898738) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST,.gargoyle The Masses are Asses.
It has been a sorry state of situations since the barbarians breached the defences.
Sincerely, |
02 Dec 06 - 09:06 PM (#1898741) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Bert Lolly Too Dum |
02 Dec 06 - 09:30 PM (#1898747) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Deckman "My Mother Chose My Husband!" Bob |
02 Dec 06 - 09:57 PM (#1898764) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins - Anathea From: GUEST,Calico "Anathea" Her brother warns her that the cruel judge "will rob you of your flower and he'll hang me from the gallows." |
03 Dec 06 - 12:16 PM (#1898886) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST Not a song, but an aside about how things have changed. In 1952 the editor of the Princeton humor magazine was suspended for printing the following: "Virginity is the mose bixarre, and least rewarding, of the sexual perversions." |
03 Dec 06 - 12:21 PM (#1898891) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: greg stephens The old carol "A Virgin Unspotted" |
03 Dec 06 - 01:56 PM (#1898970) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Georgiansilver I travelled the Atlantic on a high flying plane, I drank special coke on a British train. And in case you hadn't noticed, a pattern is emergin', The plane, the coke and train are all part of 'Virgin' |
03 Dec 06 - 05:48 PM (#1899118) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Herga Kitty The Two Magicians - I heard the Devil's Interval version yesterday - the result of a children's workshop they ran at Sidmouth festival, in which children aged 7-10 were invited to contribute their own verses. To be performed with actions. Some very ingenious, though TDI explained that Maidenhead is a town in Berkshire.... Kitty |
03 Dec 06 - 09:59 PM (#1899284) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST GUESTre:Princeton 1952SOURCE - Please...SOURCE
Location, publication, author, web resource, memory, hear-say (when,where,how) |
04 Dec 06 - 12:01 AM (#1899330) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: dick greenhaus Dunno about the GUEST, but I recall the incident from my college days--say, 1948. |
04 Dec 06 - 07:08 AM (#1899476) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Liz the Squeak "I don't drink and I don't smoke, I stay away from the greasy coat." Given the context of the other lines, I would have thought the 'greasy coat' was a prostitute and thus a good reason for staying away from them, so as not to catch anything nasty. Virgins were the preferred bed partner for 'customers' who wanted to reduce their chance of sexually transmitted diseases because they were less likely to be infected. To be sure they were virgins, the 'customers' would choose younger and younger girls. The age of consent was originally introduced to protect these young girls from becoming sexually active before puberty. I have recently purchased a book as a present for someone, which contains several recipes for 'growing it back' if anyone is interested.... LTS |
04 Dec 06 - 01:37 PM (#1899847) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Scoville Well, whatever it is, the TUNE sure sounds less innocent than alcohol. One of those creepy Am fiddle tunes. |
05 Dec 06 - 12:19 PM (#1900700) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Fidjit City Waites did a song about selling a Maidenhead several times over. A chambermaid could sell it 50 times or more it seems. And then when "Cracked" (pregnant) would wed a bumkin farmer??? Chas |
05 Dec 06 - 02:52 PM (#1900840) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: gnu So, the bumpkin farmer didn't care if jimmy cracked corn? |
05 Dec 06 - 10:33 PM (#1901257) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: Genie LTS: "I have recently purchased a book as a present for someone, which contains several recipes for 'growing it back' if anyone is interested." Oh, I dunno, Liz. At my age, I'm not sure anyone would ever know if it worked or not. ยง;-D |
09 Dec 06 - 02:12 PM (#1904677) Subject: RE: Songs about Virgins From: GUEST,GUEST Thank you all- so helpful. I'm in Tony Barrand's folksongs class at BU, and he recommended this resource early in the semester. I only wish I had used it sooner! |