[Ads-l] Antedating of G-string

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> there was once a subgenre of sea songs which elaborated on the precise
> situation posited: a sexual encounter euphemistically described as a sea
> battle.
>

Do you remember Guy Mitchell's 1950 hit, "The Roving Kid"? It was a rather
weak - well, it was the '50's - example of a song of that genre:

She had a dark and a roving eye
And her hair hung down in ringlets
She was a nice girl, a proper girl
But one of the roving kind

As I cruised out, one evening, upon a night's career
I spied a lofty clipper ship and to her I did steer
I hoisted up my signals, which she so quickly knew
And, when she saw my bunting fly, she immediately hove to

Etc.
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-Wilson
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