"Walking Down Canal Street" is an awesome old drinking song

Drinking song

A drinking song is a song sung while drinking alcohol. Most drinking songs are folk songs, and may be varied from person to person and region to region, in both the lyrics and in the music...

 from Roaring Twenties

Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America, but also in London, Berlin and Paris for a period of sustained economic prosperity. The phrase was meant to emphasize the period's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism...

 New York.

There are variations and additional impromptu

Impromptu

An impromptu is a free-form musical composition with the character of an ex tempore improvisation as if prompted by the spirit of the moment, usually for a solo instrument, such as piano...

 verses.

Max Hunter collected a version of this song from Charles Varley on January 19, 1967 in Hope, Arkansas (See here). This recording is now at on the Southern Missouri State University website online archive of the Max Hunter Collection.

Lyrics

Each line is usually first sung by the lead singer, then repeated by the group.

Walking down canal street

Knock on every door

Goddamn son of a bitch

I couldn't find a whore

I finally found a whore

She was rather thin

Goddamn son of a bitch

I couldn't get it in

I finally got it in

Worked it all about

Goddamn son of a bitch

I couldn't get it out

I finally got it out

It was wet and sore

The moral of this story is

To never fuck a whore

Six weeks later

I went for a piss

Goddamn son of a bitch

She gave me syphilis!


Nine months later

I'd forgotten what I did

Goddamn son of a bitch

She brought me home a kid!