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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 29. ...Milly goes with Tilly...

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Frances and Her Friends

 

(Song lyrics this time. Equal parts brave and delightful. A video link follows at the end.)

 

 

I want to do song right now,

that I haven’t recorded, and

I want you to hear the lyrics,

Because they’re very sacred.

 

I know a guy named Willy.

Willy goes with Tilly.

Tilly goes with Milly.

What a ball.

 

(This is not dirty.

It's the way I say it.)

 

I know a guy named Joey.

Joey goes with Moey.

Moey goes with Jamie.

And Jamie goes with Sadie;

And Sadie goes with Abie;

And Abie goes with Davy;

And Davy goes with Howard;

And Howard goes with Charlotte;

And Charlotte goes with Shirley;

And Shirley goes with Pearly;

And Pearly goes with Yetta.

What a drag; what a drag!

 

I'm not mad at you. Don't be mad at me.

I'm not mad; I'm not mad; I'm not mad;

I'm too hip to get mad . . .

Cuz I know a guy . . .

It should happen already.

 

I know a guy named Saulie.

Saulie goes with Molly.

Molly goes with Charlie.

And Charlie goes with Ollie;

And Ollie goes with Eddy;

And Eddy goes with Teddy;

And Teddy goes with Freddy;

And Freddy goes with Jackie;

And Jackie goes with Blackie;

And Blackie goes with Irving;

And Irving goes with Seymour;

And Seymour goes with Sydney;

And Sydney goes with Melvin;

And Melvin goes with Marvin;

And Marvin goes with Terry;

And Terry goes with Jerry;

And Jerry goes with Shloimie;

And Shloimie goes with Moishey;

And Moishey goes with Vito;

And Vito goes with Guido;

And Guido goes with Sammy;

And Sammy goes with Manny;

And Manny goes with Jamie.

What a drag; what a drag!


I'm not mad at you. Don't be mad at me.

I'm not mad; I'm not mad; I'm not mad;

I'm too hip to get mad . . .

Cuz I know a guy . . .

It should happen already.

 

I know a guy named Harold.

Harold goes with Sara.

Sara goes with Irving.

And Irving goes with Marty;

And Marty goes with Vivy;

And Vivy goes with Cuddles;

And Cuddles goes with Suzy;

And Suzy goes with Sammy;

And Sammy goes with Tiny;

And Tiny goes with Jimmy;

And Jimmy goes with Timmy;

And Timmy goes with Johnny;

And Johnny goes with Donny;

And Donny goes with Alani.


 

(A-lo-a-oi;

A-lo-a . . .)

 

I know a girl named Shirley.

Shirley goes with Helen.

And Helen goes with Janie;

And Janie goes with Mamie;

And Mamie goes with Angelo;

And Angelo goes with Robin;

And Robin goes with Jamie;

And Jamie goes with Seymour;

And Seymour goes with Georgie;

And Georgie goes with orgy.


I'm not mad at you. Don't be mad of me.

I'm not mad; I'm not mad; I'm not mad;

I'm too hip to get mad . . .

Cuz I know a guy . . .

He likes to shake, rattle and roll.

Shake, shake, rattle and roll . . .

Shake and rattle and roll.

And shake, shake, rattle and roll.

And shake, and rattle and roll.

And roll and roll; and roll and roll; and rock.

Rock, and rock, and rock;

Rock, and rock, rock, and rock;

And rock and rock, rock

Elvis Presley around the block,

Cuz I know a guy . . .

Well, all right, okay; well, all right;

I'm in love with you; well, all right.

Joe Williams, every day; every day;

Every day; every day, every day; every day.

I know a gal that lives up on the hill . . .

I know a gal that lives up on the hill . . .

She has three French poodles,

And they never sit still.

Well, all right – dick, dick, dick.

Well, all right – chop, chop, chop.

Well, all right – aho, ho, ho.

Well, all right; well, all right; well, all right.

 

Cuz I know a guy; I know a guy;

I know a guy; his name is Willy!

—Frances Faye,[i]

1958

 

 

 

 

 

 


[i] “Frances and Her Friends” Frances Faye, words and music. Live recording on Caught in the Act: Recorded at the Crescendo (Los Angeles 1958), track number 5

https://youtu.be/WW3vkfSuchU

For the term “goes with” meaning having an ongoing sexual relationship with another person, see Jonathan Green The Slang Thesaurus (London 1986), p. 104, entry number 359.6

https://archive.org/details/slangthesaurus0000gree/page/104/mode/2up

Likewise, “rock and roll” has the same connotations of having sex. See Brigid McConville and John Shearlaw The Slanguage of Sex (London 1985), p. 230, entry under “rocks off, to get your.” The authors write the origin of the phrase in question was “derived from the US Black expression from the forties ‘rock and roll’ = sexual intercourse.” But the authors’ dating is incorrect, as the use of rock and roll (n.) and rock (v.) as sex slang can be traced back through song recordings to at least the 1920s. See Alberta Hunter’s My Castle’s Rocking. Modesty won’t allow me to define “castle” here, but you should be able to guess.

https://youtu.be/GVRPCPAfw4E

Also, reference the 1938 Chick Webb song Rock it for Me, first recorded in that year by Ella Fitzgerald.

https://youtu.be/YmdVTJPbdTs

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On 11/24/2021 at 11:21 AM, Parker Owens said:

How could I have missed this one? Frances and her friends certainly seemed to have kept busy! 

@Parker Owens

Dear Parker, I hope you had a chance to listen to the performance as well. She calls these lyrics sacred, and while she's singing them, they do become hypnotic in the way the Torah lists all the so-and-so begat so-and-so. I think it's all wonderful, and being as open as this was beyond brave. Thanks for your comments!   

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On 11/24/2021 at 11:42 AM, Parker Owens said:

Her biography is practically manic, and fascinating reading. 

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Was there anything in there about her performances being raided by the police? I can see that happening 1950s America, as the powers-that-be persecuted, arrested and tried to ruin Allen Ginsberg for standing up in public and acknowledging Gay people exist in the world  

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5 minutes ago, AC Benus said:

@Parker Owens

Was there anything in there about her performances being raided by the police? I can see that happening 1950s America, as the powers-that-be persecuted, arrested and tried to ruin Allen Ginsberg for standing up in public and acknowledging Gay people exist in the world  

Not that I recall, but I didn’t get through the whole of it. 

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