Historical London Plot Bunny

[Gunnlaug]

For anyone who's interested the links below could make for an interesting plot bunny - it's a story of a very bad young gentleman and his encounter with an 18th century prostitute;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_twgtEMigQ
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bellowhead/london+town_21002579.html

Sorry that the song and the lyrics are on two different sites.

The song is a modern arrangement of a popular 18th century 'hit'.

 

[sr71plt]

Agree that it would make for a "what happened then" departure plot. When I heard the recording, it had him going under the bed and finding the treasurers there. I think that has more possibilities for a plot bunny. Good to think of in conjunction with the current FAWC writing exercise here, which is based on a set of songs. The stories in this exercise should post in the next three days--10 May by my estimate.

 

[Hypoxia]

I'm all in favor of storyizing old ribald ballads. I did so myself with JENNY BE FAIR.

I have a few score such lyrics awaiting my attention: THREE WHORES OF WINNIPEG and THE WINNIPEG WHORE (gotta love those Canucks!) and THE BALL AT BALLYMOOR ("Who of us will e'er forget / the ball at Ballymoor / where your wife and my wife / were fucking on the floor") and FOUR NIGHTS DRUNK and THE CHISHOLM TRAIL ("Gonna nail my pecker to a tree, to a tree...") and of course SEVEN OLD LADIES ("Oh dear, what can the matter be? / Seven old ladies locked in the lavat'ry / they were there from Sunday till Saturd'y / nobody knew they were there!") and many more.