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"Dinah, Dinah Show us your Leg" | |
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"Dinah, Dinah Show us your Leg" is an American bawdy song.
The formula is a descending scale: "Rich girl [does something,] Poor girl [does something else], my girl don't [do whatever the other two do, usually with comic effect.]. The twentieth century versions are possibly the result of merging a minstrel song with "Coming Round the Mountain".
In "Negro Singers' Own Book" (c 1846) there is a song about animals:
By 1915 this had become a comment on the fashion tastes of white women:
Notably lacking in those songs, is a chorus. Another song, "Charmin' Betsy", noted in 1908, is clearly related to "Coming Round The Mountain":
By 1914, these two songs had become merged into a new song, sometimes called "Charmin' Betsy". A version collected in 1914, called 'White Gal, Yaller Girl, Black Gal' goes as follows:
Louise Rand Bascom, in an essay in the Journal of American Folklore Apr-June 1909, dated the song back into the 19th century. It appears to cross over between the black and white communities, united in saucy humour. Other version have "City girls, country girls, mountain girls", "White girl, yellow girl, black girl" (or the other way around).
Fiddlin' John Carson's version of "Charming Betsy" (1925) is like this:
Jim Jackson's "Going Round the Mountain" (1928) has these lines:
Chorus:
The Limelighters's version has:
The satire on women's fashion lives on in a polite versions of this song, "How I Love You Darling" and "She's My Baby Doll". [1] To prove that women have a sense of humour as well, the " Girl Scouts of the USA" have a version of "Charmin' Betsy" ( https://web.archive.org/web/20110710184244/http://www.elowin.com/songs/charmin_betsy.html)
By the 1960s, even sexier verses were known:
![]() | This article includes a list of general
references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding
inline citations. (April 2009) |
"Dinah, Dinah Show us your Leg" | |
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Song | |
Songwriter(s) | Unknown |
"Dinah, Dinah Show us your Leg" is an American bawdy song.
The formula is a descending scale: "Rich girl [does something,] Poor girl [does something else], my girl don't [do whatever the other two do, usually with comic effect.]. The twentieth century versions are possibly the result of merging a minstrel song with "Coming Round the Mountain".
In "Negro Singers' Own Book" (c 1846) there is a song about animals:
By 1915 this had become a comment on the fashion tastes of white women:
Notably lacking in those songs, is a chorus. Another song, "Charmin' Betsy", noted in 1908, is clearly related to "Coming Round The Mountain":
By 1914, these two songs had become merged into a new song, sometimes called "Charmin' Betsy". A version collected in 1914, called 'White Gal, Yaller Girl, Black Gal' goes as follows:
Louise Rand Bascom, in an essay in the Journal of American Folklore Apr-June 1909, dated the song back into the 19th century. It appears to cross over between the black and white communities, united in saucy humour. Other version have "City girls, country girls, mountain girls", "White girl, yellow girl, black girl" (or the other way around).
Fiddlin' John Carson's version of "Charming Betsy" (1925) is like this:
Jim Jackson's "Going Round the Mountain" (1928) has these lines:
Chorus:
The Limelighters's version has:
The satire on women's fashion lives on in a polite versions of this song, "How I Love You Darling" and "She's My Baby Doll". [1] To prove that women have a sense of humour as well, the " Girl Scouts of the USA" have a version of "Charmin' Betsy" ( https://web.archive.org/web/20110710184244/http://www.elowin.com/songs/charmin_betsy.html)
By the 1960s, even sexier verses were known: