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Hoochie Girl

Written by: Alynna

The name Hoochie Girl is rather new, almost exclusive to the last 10 years. It is used to describe a lady who loves to party and have a good time. Increasingly, it is used to describe a lady who gets naked and has wild exploits on Internet Webcams.

The probable etymology (origin) is from the old dance, the Hoochy Koochy. Even this dance was not originally called the Hoochy Koochy. It all started with a song, which was written by Sol Bloom, a show business promoter who later became a U.S. Congressman. Bloom was the entertainment director of the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. He wrote the song (which is now commonly called The Snake Charmer) to introduce Little Egypt, which was an attraction at the Exposition in which the ladies would dress scantily in pantaloons and let their hair down (which was just not done in the 1890's by respectable ladies!) and dance in belly dancer fashion.

Between the lack of substantial clothing, flowing hair and gyrating body parts, it is no wonder that the ladies who performed in this show were considered scandalous. "When she dances," cried one promoter, "every fiber and every tissue in her entire anatomy shakes like a jar of jelly from your grandmother's Thanksgiving dinner... She is as hot as a red-hot stove on the fourth of July in the hottest county in the state."

Sol Bloom did not copyright the song and many variations emerged almost immediately. Irving Berlin used the melody in his “Harlem Nights” but the best known version is “Streets Of Cairo or The Poor Little Country Maid” written by James Thornton. Copyrighted in 1895, it was made popular by his wife Lizzie Cox, who used the stage name Bonnie Thornton. Soon it became the favored dance song used by Hoochy Koochy dancers everywhere, especially on the vaudeville stage.

The lyrics James Thornton used for his version did not help.

Verse 1 I will sing you a song, And it won't be very long,'Bout a maiden sweet, And she never would do wrong, Ev'ryone said she was pretty, She was not long in the city, All alone, oh, what a pity, Poor little maid.

Chorus She never saw the streets of Cairo, On the Midway she had never strayed, She never saw the kutchy, kutchy, Poor little country maid.

Verse 2 She went out one night, Did this innocent divine,With a nice young man, Who invited her to dine, Now he's sorry that he met her, And he never will forget her, In the future he'll know better, Poor little maid

Chorus She never saw the streets of Cairo, On the Midway she had never strayed, She never saw the kutchy, kutchy, Poor little country maid.

Verse 3 She was engaged, As a picture for to pose, To appear each night, In abbreviated clothes, All the dudes were in a flurry, For to catch her they did hurry, One who caught her now is sorry, Poor little maid

Chorus She was much fairer far than Trilby, Lots of more men sorry will be, If they don't try to keep way from this Poor little country maid.