Dinah, Dinah Show Us a Leg

DESCRIPTION: "Dinah, Dinah, show us your leg ... above the knee" Rich girl wears brassiere, poor girl rags, or a string, Dinah wears nothing and lets her bosoms sag, or swing.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1976 (Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame)
KEYWORDS: bawdy playparty clothes
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame, p. 479, ("Dinah, Dinah, show us your leg") (1 text)
Morgan/Green-RugbySongs, p. 48, "Dinah" (1 text)
Roud #7052
NOTES [88 words]: Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame: "The adult version at least makes more sense." See the Mudcat Cafe site forum for examples. One thread on Rugby songs includes a bawdy text for "Dinah" that includes -- sort of -- two of the Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame verses. Other threads have long versions with a lot of overlap. - BS
Roud includes this with "Coming Round the Mountain (II -- Charming Betsey)" and "She Gets There Just the Same (Jim Crow Car)." The form is similar, but I'd consider the concept different, and hence I split them. - RBW
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File: OpGa479C

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