Vartan -> RE: Dirty Limericks and Bawdy Lyrics (5/2/2007 11:47:06 AM)
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Don't forget this is a forum for Bawdy Lyrics as well. Anybody know the meaning of Rock N Roll?: The term "rock and roll", which was black slang for dancing or sex, appeared on record for the first time in 1922 on Trixie Smith's "My Baby Rocks Me With One Steady Roll". The word "rock" had a long history in the English language as a metaphor for "to shake up, to disturb or to incite". The verb "Roll" was a medieval metaphor which meant "having sex". Writers for hundreds of years have used the phrases "They had a roll in the hay" or "I rolled her in the clover". So who's got some good rock n roll lyrics that are thinly veiled metaphors? hehe
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