Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
In the song, two women scrutinise their husband’s private parts and sexual prowess. This is a common motif of bawdy folk songs which can be traced back to medieval times and to the poetry of the Scottish Makars (eg. William Dunbar’s ‘The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Women and the Wedo.’)
Twa neighbour wives sat in the sun
A-twining at their rocks
And they an argument begun
And all the plea was cocks
Twas whether they were sinew strong
Or whether they were bone?
And how they rolled aboot your thumb
And how they stood alone
First, Rachel gae her rock a tug
And then she clawed her tail
“When our Tam draws his breeches on
It waggles like a flail”
Says Bess, “They're bone, I will maintain
And proof you can't deny
For our jock's thing broke yesterday
And I found it down my thigh”