Bye, Bye, Blackbird (Bawdy Version)
DESCRIPTION: "Once a boy was no good, Took a girl into a wood, Bye bye blackbird, Laid her down upon the grass" -- and had sex with her. She goes to law enforcement. He is convicted and sent to prison for eighteen months
AUTHOR: unknown (original "Bye Bye Blackbird": words by Mort Dixon, music by Ray Henderson, c. 1925)
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Morgan/Green-RugbySongs)
KEYWORDS: sex warning trial punishment prison derivative
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Morgan/Green-RugbySongs, p. 184, "Bye, Bye, Blackbird" (1 text)
Roud #10148
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Bye, Bye, Blackbird" (tune)
cf. "The Blackbird (VII)" (tune) and references there
File: RuSoBBBl
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