Hourra, Mes Boués, Hourra!

DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Sailor is gathering strawberries and feeding them to a girl. Her mother arrives; he says he's using the berries to fix her teeth. The mother wants her share too, but the sailor says they're only for girls of 15. The old ones are for the captain.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (Hugill-ShantiesFromTheSevenSeas)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty bawdy food
FOUND IN: Canada France
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hugill-ShantiesFromTheSevenSeas, pp. 137-138, "Hourra, Mes Boués, Hourra!" (2 texts, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Derriere chez nous y a z'un petit bois (Behind Our House There is a Little Wood)
NOTES [24 words]: If sung in French, the text is full of bawdy double entendres. This was possibly derived from a French-Canadian folk song with a similar story. - SL
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File: Hugi137

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