Your Fingers Are Nimble

DESCRIPTION: Jack says to Jeannie: the ewes are not free so you'd better milk me. Jeannie: I never milked a ram; I won't "for fear of a lamb" until we are married when I'd milk you dry. When they marry he pleases her so well but she can't milk him dry.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Greig/Duncan7)
LONG DESCRIPTION: Jack says to Jeannie: the ewes are not free so you'd better milk me. Jeannie: I never milked a ram; I won't "for fear of a lamb" until we are married when I'd milk you dry. When they marry he pleases her so well but she can't milk him dry. Afterwards she sends him to the Highlands amongst the "dry cattle."
KEYWORDS: courting marriage sex husband wife shepherd love seduction farming sex
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig/Duncan7 1417, "Your Fingers Are Nimble" (1 text)
Porter/Gower-Jeannie-Robertson-EmergentSingerTransformativeVoice #55, pp. 215-216, "Maggie A-Milkin'" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7157
NOTES [18 words]: Porter and Gower note that the tune is much older, but even then associated with a bawdy song (p. 216). - DGE
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File: GrD71417

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