[Ads-l] Antedating of G-string

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 6, 2016, at 12:35 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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"?

Hmmm.  I believe that's a somewhat different ballad, "Ramblin' Boy".  ;-)

LH

> 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.
> -- 
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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