“In Duckworth Street There Lived a Dame”
Description
The singer courts an ugly woman on Duckworth Street. One night "I found her faithless she Fryin' sausages fer he." When he tells her "we must part ... With a fryin' pan she broke my head."
Notes
If "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" maybe there is no double entendre here about frying sausages. On the contrary, this seems a song in which the writer let the metaphor get away. Peacock points out that Duckworth Street is one of the main commercial streets in St John's. - BS
Cross references
- cf. "A Rich Old Miser" [Laws Q7]
- cf. "A Week's Matrimony (A Week's Work)" (imagery)
- cf. "Charming Sally Ann" (imagery)
References
- Peacock, p. 287, "In Duckworth Street There Lived a Dame" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Roud #9969
- BI, Pea287