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Carpal Tunnel
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Couldn’t find the one I was thinking of, but found this scabrous riddle… :) My pretty maid, fain would I know, What thing it is 'twill breed delight, That strives to stand, that cannot go, That feeds the mouth that cannot bite.
chorus: With a humble down, humble down, humble down, hey, Humble down, humble down, humble down, hey.
It is a pretty pricking thing, A pleasing and a standing thing. It was the truncheon Mars did use, A bedward bit that maidens choose.
It is a friar with a bald head, A staff to beat a cuckold dead. It is a gun that shoots point blank, It hits between a maiden's flank.
It is a shaft of Cupid's cut, 'Twill serve to rove, to prick, to butt. 'Twas ne'er a maid but by her will, Will keep it in her quiver still.
It has a head much like a mole's, And yet it loves to creep in holes. The fairest maid that e'er took life, For love of this became a wife.http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/bawdy-songs/000098.HTMand another ballad, from Scotland: http://www.cc.gla.ac.uk/courses/scottish/ballads/mu23y1035.htm
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