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scanned pages.Erotic Folksongs and Ballads
An International Bibliography
G. LEGMAN, La Clé des
Champs, Valbonne (A.M. 06560), France
FOLKLORE is the voice of those who have no other voice, and would not be
listened to if they did. Of no part of folklore is this more true —
folksongs and ballads, folklife, language, artifacts, dances and games,
superstitions and all the rest — than of the sexual parts. These stand to
the body of folklore and folksong in about the same proportion as the
physical sexual parts stand to the human body, or perhaps a bit more: 22% in
the Vance Randolph complete Ozark conspectus, as his "Unprintable"
collections, Roll Me In Your Arms and Blow the Candle Out
(University of Arkansas Press, 1990, forthcoming). But to most people they
are among the most treasured, if secret, parts. Yet the record of erotic
folklore and folksong has only seldom — and then usually only privately —
been committed to print, owing to the anti-sexual religious censorship in
the West for several thousand years now, and especially the last two hundred
and fifty, by the civil authorities.
That is the reason for the exceptional brevity of the bibliography of
erotic folksong compared to the enormous bibliography available on the
literature of folklore in general, now in the final years of the 20th
century, as listed (half a century ago) in the volumes of Bolte and
Polívka's Anmerkungen to the Grimms' folktales, and the international
Motif-Index of Stith Thompson. Nevertheless, the present list covers
only the main European languages, and can be considered relatively complete
only for English, German, and French, and perhaps recent Italian.
Near-Eastern and other languages in non-Roman alphabets, such as Russian,
Greek, Arabic, and the Oriental and African languages, have almost not been
dealt with at all. These must be left for other researchers. (See: DAY;
DEAN; HAYN; HICKERSON; LAWS; and MONTGOMERIE.)
The chronological development or presentation of these American and
European materials has not been attempted here, since they all are in any
case comparatively recent. They date at earliest from the upsurge of printed
folksong and erotic sonnets and other satirical poetry (school of Ronsard)
in the poetic miscellanies and drolleries, first in France and then in
England, from about 1530 to 1660.
The earliest human songs, or rather rhythmed chants, of which we have any
firm record are all tribal gloats and epic self-glorifications in Ancient
Egypt and Babylonia by male and female heroes over their fallen enemies:
"Triumphs," as these are called when recorded monumentally on stone or
metal steles. Two of the oldest and most poetic in form are
attributed to female singers, and were preserved first orally and later on
sheepskin vellum: the Biblical "Song of Miriam" at the Red Sea (Exodus,
chapter 15:1-21), and the "Song of Deborah," the witch-prophetess in
Judges, chapter 5. Both of these date presumably from just after the
Egyptian Exodus, about 1200 to 1100 B.C., but in the earliest Biblical text,
the Ezraic recension of 432 B.C., the "Song of Deborah" and Jael is signed
by the ghostwriter in line 14: "Out of (the tribe of) Zebulun came they that
handle and draw with the pen of the writer." The "Song of Hannah," 1
Samuel, chapter 2, is also a war-cry.
The story told, of the killing of the sleeping enemy and presumed sexual
guest or rapist Sisera/Holofernes by the heroic Jael/Judith (Delilah in the
mythic Samson prose version in Judges, chapter 16) with a tent-peg
and hammer, is millennially similar in its way to the American Negro
folk-ballad of the 1890s, "Frankie & Johnny (Albert)," except in the
murder-weapon used and the replacement of the ancient heroine's patriotism
with sexual jealousy as the modern bitch-heroine's motive. Judith too
ends in song, 16:1-17.
Compare this almost coeval declamatory "triumph," from the cuneiform
Annals of Ashur-Nasir-pal II (Assyria, about 870 B.C.) column ii, so
similar to the modern Vietnam body-count gloats and napalm glorifications
reported in Carol Burke's "Marching to Vietnam" (1989:434-441), but rather
more frank about the raping and buggering of the "enemies" of both sexes
before killing or enslaving them:
Eight hundred of their soldiers by my arms I destroyed. Their populace in
the flames I burned. Their young men, their maidens, I violated. One
thousand of their warriors' corpses on a hill I heaped up. On the first of
(May), I killed eight hundred of their fighting men. I burned their many
houses; their young men and maidens I violated. [Translation of the
cuneiform text, after Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, The Annals of the Kings of
Assyria, London, 1908.]
In spite of there being an ancient Greek muse of erotic song and poetry,
Erato (one of the nine daughters of the gods of heavenly inspiration and
memory: Zeus and Mnemosyne), no serious history of the subject appears to
exist. It will therefore be useful here to mention summarily a few
highlights and their dates in human history, to bring the modern examples of
erotic song in our own folklore into humanistic and historical focus. The
earliest records of erotic poetry are those engraved in the bas-reliefs and
steles and later the papyri of the ancient Egyptian "New Empire" from
1590 to 1085 B.C. Particularly fertile in love-song was the period following
and inspired by the monotheistic revolt of Akhnaton (Amenhopis IV: Freud's
prototypical "Moses"), in 1372-64 B.C. See in particular the Harris Papyrus
No. 500. The irreverent and bawdy satirical style in prose tales is already
seen in the "Adventures of Horus and Seth" (1160 B.C.) in the Chester Beatty
Papyrus published in 1930. The poetry of that ramesside epoch, of Rameses V,
is also frequently frivolously erotic and what would be called today
"obscene," concentrating on what would ordinarily be repressed: that is,
"off-scene" and off the conscious stage, as in the calendar of erotic
postures depicted in the astrological Turin Papyrus.
Meanwhile, more formal erotic poetry and song also appear at the same
time in the epic and religious literature of the Middle East, though assumed
to be a thousand years earlier in origins, in the Sumerian and Egyptian
fertility cults. This usually takes the form of admiring descriptions and
glorifications of the beloved's sexual attributes and organs: strength,
beauty, breasts, buttocks, pubis ("belly") and genitals, as also in the
surviving Arabic poetic tradition of the wasf, so frequently
interrupting the narrative portions of The Arabian Nights, and
parodied in Aleister Crowley's Scented Garden: Bagh-i-Muattar (1911).
The modern bawdy song, "The Hair on Her Dicky-Dido Hangs Down to Her Knee,"
with its glorying "I've seen it, I've seen it, I've been in between
it!" to the great Welsh tune of "The Ash Grove," is a more typical Western
survival.
The passages of sexual flattery and attempted seduction of the hero
Gilgamesh, in the Sumerian-Akkadian epic of that name, Tablet vi, by the
erotic goddess Ishtar-Astarte, alternate with responses of almost orgiastic
insults and flyting by the hero, much in the style still surviving in Polish
dance-songs, and in the two-part bawdy song "Ballocky Bill the Sailor."
Gilgamesh is supposed to date from about 1800 B.c., but the earliest
extant text is an artistic rewriting and doubtless revision made in Uruk
(the modern Warka, Iraq) about 1200 B.c. by the male poet calling himself
Sin-Leqe-Unníni, "the worshipper of Astarte," she being the presumed author.
Very similar, but without any responsory alternation with insults and
verbal aggression, are the antiphonal passages of erotic praise of her
beloved's body by the avowed Biblical authoress of The Song of Songs
as it now exists: chapters 1-3, 5, and 8. Politely ascribed, though not
credibly, to King Solomon (about 950 B.C.), this was probably "written" in
its modern form near that date, during the Tirzah dynasty of Northern
Israel. It has been shown, first by Wetzstein in 1873 and Erbt in 1906, and
later by St.H. Stephan, Modern Palestinian Parallels to the Song of Songs
(1923), and more fully by Ringgren, that The Song of Songs is a
typical or ritual Near-Eastern epithalamium or marriage-play, probably
originally a springtime fertility-cult mimicry over a thousand years older.
In this the writer-speaker is taking the part, in her ritual intercourse or
"marriage" with her lover, the god Tammuz, of the goddess Ishtar-Astarte, or
the Egyptian Venus called Hathor, the Golden Calf of the naked dance-orgy
before Mount Sinai in Exodus, 32:2-29.
Women as a group retained their millennial prominence in the songs and
poetry of the Semitic peoples, in their military and erotic triumphs, both
as heroines and as singers, at least till about 980 B.C., as in the
satirical song described and quoted at the triumph of the young,
slingshot-bearing hero, David, over the giant champion of the Philistines,
Goliath, in 1 Samuel, 18:6-7:
And it came to pass . . . when David returned from the slaughter of the
Philistines, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing
and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tabrets,with joy, and with instruments
of musick. And the women answered one another (n.b.) as they played,
and said, Saul hath slain his thousands — And David his ten
thousands. And Saul was very wroth . . .
See further the Abbé Nadal's valuable but little-known treatise, added to
his Histoire des Vestales (Paris, 1725: copy, Ohio State University),
on ancient soldiers' satirical songs against their victorious officers,
"Sur l'Origine des Vers Satyriques contre ceux qui triomphoient." These
are of evidently apotropaic or evil-averting intention, to ward off the
"Evil Eye" of jealousy and hatred by the defeated enemy, not only throughout
Roman times but strongly surviving into our own. And see also G. Legman,
The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore (1964), pp. 336-426, "The
Bawdy Song."
Although the most famous of the love poets of ancient Greece, still
today, is the presumably lesbian singer Sappho (attempted to be
"rehabilitated" by the legend of her suicide over a man, Phaon), along with
the violent male satirist and poet Archilochus, in the classical drama of
Greece since about 650 B.C. women singers lost all prominence to the new
phallus-bearing comedians. The humorous interludes in public street
processions and in the theatre were given over then to orgiastic male
dancers, dressed as satyrs and masked with "horned cult" goat-heads or as
other traditionally rutting animals, and bearing whips and enormous mock
phalluses by way of, first, a fertility rite, and later as plain bawdy
humor.
This type of originally religious erotic mumming and broad comedy song is
thought to have originated in Megara and Syracuse in Sicily, and then to
have spread throughout Greece. According to Aristotle in his Poetics
(330 B.C.), Attic comedy, as seen best in the bawdy and satirical Atellane
plays of Aristophanes a century earlier, was of Dionysian character,
satirical and abusive. It had arisen from the improvisations spoken or
shouted, rather than sung, by the leaders (exarchontes) of these
phallic and dithyrambic "obscene songs which, authorized by custom and law,
were long chanted in many of the cities of Greece." Archilochus had already
written, 7th century B.C.: "I know how to lead off (exarchein) the
dithyramb, the song in honor of the lord Dionysos, when my wits are addled
with wine." This clearly shows that we are dealing here with "sacred"
taboo-transgressing drinking songs, as in the time of Shakespeare's Falstaff
("Come, sing me a bawdy song; make me merry . . .") and certainly
still today.
The obscene and abusive songs the phallophoroi sang — replacing
the ritual striking with their fertility-cult whips — are the true ancestors
of modern bawdy song in all European languages, and of the abusive and
obscene Russian medieval clowns, French and Provençal bawdy minstrels and
fabliaux poets and troubadours, of Greek (via Hispanic-Arabic)
inspiration, who are still with us. They now flourish as the "dirty-talking"
stand-up comics — transitionally, the European-Jewish bodchonim and
earlier jesters and minstrels — now everywhere featured in Western
nightclubs and television. From the original ritually nympholept
street-comedians and musicians of ancient Sicily and Greece have developed
all our humorous comedy theatre, and also the type of erotic poetry in
The Greek Anthology, Book XII; in Martial's Epigrams (1st century
A.D.), and the bawdy poetic obscœna of the Priapeia, the first
graffiti collection, presumed to have been edited by the poet Virgil (1st
century B.C.) — in his youth. We are navel-deep in folk history here.
A word must be said about the music of the folksongs, erotic and
otherwise, of which very little account is taken in most of the erotic
collections in the bibliographical list that follows. Our aesthetic
appreciation of these musical song-accompaniments has always tended to blind
us to their relatively recent emergence as "the" important element in
folksong, especially expurgated folksong. In the well-known passage
beginning, "Let us now praise famous men," the writer of Ecclesiasticus
in the Apocrypha, 44:5 (about 180 B.c.) includes among all benefactors
of humanity, "Such as found out musical tunes, and recited verses (ditties)
in writing." His reference here is to the Byzantine-Greek musical modes and
neumes, a series of prosodie patterns and simple melismata
shown by written signs, which still survive in the Jewish liturgical
cantillation, and were in that way transmitted to church plain-song at an
early date. Words are given beneath the manuscript music of carols by the
13th century, as in "Sumer Is i-cumen In," and were eventually printed in
that way by Lattaignant in France as early as the 1530s. Before those dates,
the "tunes" of troubadour songs were often hardly more than rhythmic chants
or a drone, and the same is still true of much of the world's epic
folk-singing.
Since that date, at least, the tune or tunes to which a given song is
ornamentally sung have been so much appreciated that one forgets that the
tune is essentially adventitious and decorative. It is part of the emotional
communication made, not too far removed from the characteristic cries of
animals and birds, though these of course often have an intellectual warning
or signaling quality too. The real value of the tune, to the singer, has
always been principally mechanical and tactical, as a mnemonic assist, in
the same way as the rhyme, to help in carrying along and remembering
the flow of the stanzaic words, which are thought of as the essential part
of the song by all but aesthetes and opera-singers.
Few actual folksingers or musicians ever learn their tunes from printed
music, but almost invariably orally, and very often borrowed or parodied
from older songs. The printed tunes are of principal value only to "revival"
singers and folklore historians, and often vary from singer to singer in
authentic oral transmission as much or more than the words. In any case, the
more melodic forms of folksong seem now to be coming to an end, at least in
the communications media of the West in recent years. Current "popular" or
"rock" singing has returned by and large to simple rhythmic chanting and
shouting, with guitar and drum, of mostly repetitive and inarticulate
phrases. This is accompanied with much openly erotic body-language, coital
hip-jerking, and spasmodic shuffling or other primitive dance motions.
Generally there is no identifiable tune-dimension or harmonic resolution.
The formless song simply repeats numerous times, trails off, and stops. The
widespread audience acceptance of this increasingly aggressive
melodic and intellectual collapse since the 1950s would be well worth
further examination and study.
Assistance is requested with the planned Discography of erotic songs
on phonographic recordings, in various languages but particularly
English and French since the 1920s, in which some few hundreds of the recent
traditional bawdy songs, their words and their tunes have been preserved, as
a supplement to the following book list. Living in France for the last forty
years, it has not been possible for the present writer to deal with this
proposed erotic song Discography as it deserves.
One final word. It has become a truism of folksong study, as a result of
the widespread commercial and expurgatory revamping of original folk
materials, at least since the ballad-operas and "Tea Table Miscellanies"
of the early 18th century, that only bawdy song and the folklore of
children still reap the advantage of authentic oral transmission in Western
cultures. Of bawdy song in particular it might be said, as Longfellow
phrases it in "To the Children," stanza 9 — admittedly in a somewhat
different context —
Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said,
For ye are the living poems,
And all the rest are dead.
Bibliography
ABBOTT, George. c. 1930. Songs for Sinners, Saints and
Scoundrels. MS. New York. Copy stated to have been deposited at The
Lambs' Club, New York, not now discoverable there. Compare: Philip WYLIE;
and WILSTACH.
ABRAHAMS, Roger D. 1959. Abrahams MS. Philadelphia. Transcript of
tape-recorded songs and recitations of Negro children. Unpublished.
________. 1961. Negro Folklore from South Philadelphia: A Collection
and Analysis. Philadelphia. Ph.D. dissertation. University of
Pennsylvania, 1962. xxiii, 404 f., 4to, lithoprinted in Austin, Texas, from
typewriting; 16 copies only? Compare preceding and following items.
________. 1964. Deep Down in the Jungle. Hatboro, Penn.: Folklore
Associates. Revised (as to interpretive text by G. Legman), Chicago: Aldine,
1970. Negro rhymed "toasts" and stories, selected from dissertation above.
Compare: DANCE; EDDINGTON; FIDDLE; JACKSON; WEPMAN; and YANKAH.
Adam and Eve. [U.S. 1932?] Chapbook reprinting of "Eden: or
Adam and Eve's First Coition," first printed in The Basis of Passional
Psychology, by "Dr. Jacobus X***," [Sutor?], Paris: Carrington, 1901
(copy: British Museum Library, Private Case PC. 923, at Jacolliot), vol.
2:155-159, a playlet-in-verse translated from "L'Eden" by Edmond HARAUCOURT,
in his anonymous La Légende des Sexes (1883), pp. 27-39. See also:
RÖHRICH.
Adventures of a Young Stenographer. See: Diary of a French
Stenographer.
All About Monte Carlo and Roulette. 1913. By "O. Plucky" [pseud.:
Lt. Col. Chris. T. "Wide-awake" SENNETT]. London: Edmund Scale, viii,
242 pp., 12mo. (Copy: Ohio State University Library.) Gambling advice,
interspersed with bawdy puns and verse in journalistic style of the
"sporting" newspaper The Pink 'Un, the British Police Gazette.
See: Purple Plums.
ALLRED, Judy. 1963. College Fraternity Songs. Austin, Tex. 25 f.,
4to, hektographed. (Copies: Roger Abrahams, G. Legman.)
Aloha Jigpoha. 1945. Compiled by Robert D. THORNTON, et al.
Honolulu, T.H. 61 f., 4to, mimeographed. Army and Air Force songs, collected
at Boulder, Colorado, and in Hawaii, with final section of bawdy songs.
(Copies: Harvard University Library XLA-430F; Library of Congress, Folksong
Archive.) Compare: ANDERS; GETZ; and STARR.
AMRAIN, Karl. 1910. Beiträge zur Volkliedforschung: Le Trimazos
(und Dictons). Anthropophytéia 7:338-340; and (1911)
8:354—364. Erotic songs and wedding poems in Lorraine dialect, with French
translation.
________. 1911. Unser Magd: Eine Auslese derber Neckverse.
Anthropophytéia 8:369-372.
________. 1912. Ein altes Lied aus Picardie. Anthropophytéia
9:467-470. Erotic song, "Le Comte Orry et les nonnes de Farmoutier," dating
from the 15th century.
________. 1912. Ein Studentenlied aus Tübingen. Anthropophytéia
9:458-459.
________. 1912. Gefängnis-poesie: Eine Umfrage. Anthropophytéia
9:329-332. Inquiry as to the erotic poetry of prisoners. See: JACKSON; and
WEPMAN.
ANDERS, Greg ("Vito"). c. 1968. 17th Wild Weasel Songbook.
U.S. Air Force, Thailand. 4f. plus 115 songs, 4to, mimeographed. (Copies:
Jonathan Lighter, Knoxville, Tenn.; G. Legman.)
ANDERSON, Walter. See: BARONS. 1898. Latuju Dainas.
Anecdota Americana: Being, explicitly, an anthology of tales in the
vernacular. 1927-28. Elucidatory Preface by J. Mortimer Hall [pseud.].
Anecdotes collected and taken down by William Passemon [pseud.:
Joseph FLIESLER]. "Boston: For the Association for the Asphyxiation of
Hypocrites" [New York: Printed by Guy D'Isère (Gabors) for David Moss,
Gotham Book Mart]. xxv, 202 pp., 8vo. Text opens with large phallophoric
letter A. Mostly jokes, with scattered verse. Two piratical reprints:
[1928? New York: Samuel Roth] with small letter A at head of text and
an extra poem added on last page; and a further piracy of this [c.
1932 New York: Millers?] with broad page margins at inner edge. Reprinted
as: The Classic Book of Dirty Jokes, New York: Bell, 1981, with the
anti-Negro jokes rewritten and reset. Expurgated version as Anecdota
Americana: Five Hundred Stories, New York: "William Faro" [Samuel Roth],
1933, edited by the publisher; reprinted, 1934 New York: Nesor (i.e., Rosen
& Wartels). This expurgation then further revised by Roth and issued as
The New Anecdota Americana, 1944 New York: Grayson.
________. 1934. Anecdota Americana: An Anthology of Tales in the
Vernacular. Edited without expurgation by J. Mortimer Hall [pseud.]
Second Series: 500 more. With 37 illustrations. "Boston: Humphrey
Adams" [New York: Vincent Smith]. 224 pp., 8vo. Not compiled by Joseph
Fliesler, editor of the First Series. Reprint as: The Unexpurgated
Anecdota Americana. 1968, North Hollywood, Calif.: Brandon House. 208
pp., 16mo, offset, but omitting the erotic illustrations, in the rough style
of Alexander King. Compare: Bréviaire.
ANGOT, J.-M. See: Le Parnasse erotique du XVe siècle.
Antarctic Fuckup. c. 1960? Australia. 26 pp., mimeographed? Not
seen. Songbook cited 1970 by John Foyster in Ancora magazine (Monash
University), omitting "Antarctic" in title.
Anthologie de Cantiques Saints, Édifiants . . . Grivoises,
Érotiques, Narcotiques, &c. &c. &c. Per omnes modos & casus. MS, early 18th
century ff. 546 pp., sq.8vo. (Copy: Théo Staub, Université de Nice.)
Contains older versions of certain modern French students' bawdy songs. See:
STAUB; and compare: Recueil de Vaudevilles gaillards.
Anthologie érotique, ou Les Vaudevilles de Cythère: chansonnier dédié
à Priape. c. 1750. "London: Van Crick" [Paris?] 65 f., 64to, engraved
text with 47 erotic illustrations. Extremely rare miniature volume 65 X 60
mm.
________. 1832. Same? enlarged as: Anthologie erotique, ou Recueil
complet de chansons libres et polissonnes, anciennes, nouvelles, et
inédites, recueillies par E*** D*** [Émile DEBRAUX]. "Londres"
[Paris?]. 192pp., 16mo. (Copy: Bodleian Library, W. N. H. Harding
Collection.) Compare: Chansonnier du Bordel; and BÉRANGER.
Anthologie Hospitalière & Latinesque. Recueil de Chansons de Salle de
Garde, anciennes et nouvelles, entre-lardées de Chansons du Quartier Latin,
Fables, Sonnets, Charades, Elucubrations diverses, etc. Réunies par
Courtepaille [pseud.: "Dr." Edmond Dardenne BERNARD]. 1911-13.
Paris: "Chez Bichat-porte-à-droite." Vol. 1 colophon-dated 1912. 2 vols.,
8vo. (Copies: Kinsey-ISR; University of Kansas; UCLA; G. Legman.) The first
and largest collection of French medical and art students' bawdy songs.
Compiled by a druggist-bookseller, editor also of the medical humor
magazine, Le Rictus, in which he reviewed his own book: 20 October
1913, special illustrated "Bal de l'Internat" issue. See also: STAUB; and
Chansons de Salle de Garde; Les Chants du Quartier Latin; and Trois
Orfèvres à la Saint-Éloi.
Anthropophytéia: Jahrbuch für folkloristische Erhebungen und
Forschungen, zur Entwicklungs-geschichte der geschlechtlichen Moral.
1904-1913. Friedrich S. KRAUSS, ed. Leipzig. 10 vols., 4to, with 9
supplementary volumes of "Beiwerke." Outstanding yearbook of erotic
folklore (in continuation of Krauss's yearbook of folklore, Am Urquell,
"From the Fountainhead"), with contributions on all languages except
English. Publication prohibited after volume 10 by German government, on
complaint by the folklore bibliographer Johannes Bolte, but continued with
the "Beiwerke" until stopped again by the Nazis, twenty years later,
for the Krauss-Satow volumes on Japanese erotic life. Compare: Kryptádia
and Maledicta.
An Antidote against Melancholy: Made up into Pills, compounded of
witty ballads, jovial songs, and merry catches. 1661. London: Mercurius
Melancholicus. (Copy: Folger Library, Washington, D.C.) Address to the
Reader signed "N.D." being finial initials of the editor-publisher, John
PLAYFORD. Reprinted, London, 1669, with Playford's open imprint. Note:
caption and runningtitle of 1661 edition are Pills to Purge Melancholly,
q. v.
["APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume, " pseud. of Guglielmo FLUGI DULCIGNI,
called Kostrowitski, called:] L'Oeuvre libertine des poètes du XIXème
siècle, par "Germain Amplecas" [pseud.]. 1910. Paris:
Bibliothèque des Curieux [G. & R. Briffaut]. 252 pp., 8vo. (Copy, G.
Legman.) Same, enlarged, also 1910. 296 pp., 8vo. (Bibliothèque Nationale,
Réserve.) Taken in part from POULET-MALASSIS'S Parnasse Satyrique du XIXe
siècle (1863-64) q.v., but valuable for 20th-century poems added in 2d
edition above (reprinted in 1918 and 1920), in which those signed "Un Vieux
Marin" are by Capt. Mauger. For other identifications see Pascal PIA, Les
Livres de l'Enfer, col. 948. Compare: MALRAUX; PILLEMENT; and Les
Gaudrioles. Note: The re-edition of Apollinaire's collection under the
same title, L'Oeuvre libertine etc. published in 1951, 192 pp., 8vo.
(Enfer 1433; Pia, col. 949), is much abridged [by Jean Texcier] who
signs his preface "Jean Cabanel."
Apollo's Banquet. 1669. London. Same, 6th edition, 1690. Drollery
collection, with tunes, edited by Henry PLAYFORD. Compare An Antidote
against Melancholy; and Pills to Purge Melancholy.
The Archives. c. 1960? ("A Collection of earthy verses and tales,
gathered by a 'Gentleman about Town' and published by his Harvard friends
after his untimely death in a plane accident.") Cambridge, Mass. Noted by
Ray Billington, Limericks Historical and Hysterical (New York, 1981)
p. 105, as having 16 pp. or more.
ARGO, Arthur. See: DISCOGRAPHY, in progress.
Argus Tuft's Compendium of Verse. 1970. (Colophon: Collected,
collated, arranged and edited by A. Tuft. Published and printed by R.
Supward.) Perth, Australia: S.C.I.I. A. Engineering Society. 87 f., 4to,
mimeographed. (Copies: Kenneth D. Gott; G. Legman.) "Argus Tuft," pseud.,
i.e., "Ah, get stuffed!" [buggered]. Revision and enlargement of Be
Pure! (1963) by same editor.
ARNAUT, Robert. 1960. Les Jardins de Priape. Poésies erotiques du XVIe
siècle. Avant-propos de Jacques Audiberti. Paris: Au Cercle du Livre
Précieux [Claude Tchou]. xxv, 230 pp., 12mo. (Enfer 1550; G. Legman.)
Compare: Le Gai Chansonnier; ANGOT; POULAILLE; and SCHWOB.
Arschwische und Scheissereien, ausgemistet von einem Schismatiker.
1836. (Witzbuch der Biedermeierzeit. Neuausgabe eines seltenen
sotadisch-skatologischen Witzbuches.—.) Herausgeber und Nachwort: Dr. Lutz
RÖHRICH. Allmendingen: September Verlag, Rainer G. Feucht, (forthcoming),
1985. 2 vols. in l, 12mo. Compare: Book of a Thousand Laughs; and
Lacht zum Bescheissen; also BERGSON; BLÜMML; KRAUSS; Select
Reading; and Wirtshaus an der Lahn.
ASH, Robert. See: Union Jack.
ASHTON, John. 1888. Modern Street Ballads. London. Compare:
SHEPARD.
AUDEN, W. H. 1965. The Platonic Blow. Designed & Published, Zapped
& Ejaculated by two legendary Editors and Poets [Ed Sanders and Tuli
Kupferberg] at a secret location in the Lower East Side, New York City,
U.S.A. Printed by Fuck You Press for the World Gobble/Grope Fellowship
[Peace Eye Bookshop]. Mimeographed. (British Museum Library, PC. 155)
________. 1967. Same, with variants, as: A Gobble Poem. Snatched
from the notebooks of W. H. Auden and now believed to be in the Morgan
Library. London: Fuckbooks Unlimited. 6f., 4to, mimeographed. (PC. 156-157)
Compare: ELIOT; FICKE; GUTHRIE; MARQUIS; PEIRCE; PUTNAM; and TWAIN.
BaBAD, Harry. See: Songs of Roving and Raking; and WALSH.
The Bacchanalian Magazine, and Cyprian Enchantress. 1793.
Composed principally of new, convivial and amorous Songs, with easy and
familiar tunes. London: H. Lemoine. (PC. 180)
The Bagford Ballads. 1876-80. J. Woodfall EBSWORTH, ed. Hertford:
Ballad Society. 2 vols., 8vo. Reprinted, New York: AMS, 1968. Compare:
Pepys Ballads; Roxburghe Ballads; HOLLOWAY; and PINTO. The Bagford
Ballads' original date is circa 1620-1680.
________. 1880. Same, Supplement: The Amanda Group of Bagford Ballads.
1680. [Hertford.] A "Reserved" supplement of the erotic ballads, pp.
469-554.
Baker House Super-Duper Extra Crude Song Book. c. 1963. (At head:
The ONE The ONLY.) Cambridge, Mass.: Baker House, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. (2), 18 pp., 4to, hektographed. (Copies: Library of
Congress, Folksong Archive; G. Legman.) Compare: Songs of Raunch and
III-Repute.
BAKER, George. 1944-47. Slightly Soiled . . . A group of tales,
compiled and retold. Limited edition. New York: National Advertising Art
Center. 3 pamphlets of 32 pp. each, sq.8vo. Compare: ELGART; and Jest
on Sex.
BAKER, Ronald L. 1987. Lady Lil and Pisspot Pete. Journal of American
Folklore 100:191-199. Compare: LEGMAN, "Bawdy Monologues" (1976), on the
same song or recitation, usually entitled "Our Lil," and attributed to
Eugene FIELD. The following item below, "Eskimo Nell," is a British
imitation, also known in America; of which a long further imitation or
continuation as "The Eskimo's Death-Knell," on passive pedicancy, was
circulated in MS by Donald LAYCOCK, of Canberra, Australia, before dying
after a brief illness in 1988.
The Ballad of Eskimo Nell, 1973. Drawings by Titus. Australia:
Bold Books. 64 pp. including illustrations, sm.4to. (Copies: Donald Laycock,
Canberra; G. Legman.) A favorite sex-hate recitation, the total macho
statement; the matching drawings being purposely repulsive. See Legman,
The Ballad, Introduction, section "The Mask of Humor." Compare: BOLD;
Bréviaire du Carabin, and Das sind unsere Lieder, also the
preceding item above: BAKER, Ronald.
BALTZER, R. 1936. Knurrhahn: Sammlung Deutscher und Englischer
Seemannslieder. 3 Aufl. Kiel. 2 vols. Compare: HUGILL.
BARING-GOULD, Sabine. 1905. Songs and Ballads of the West [of
England]. Revised and edited by Cecil Sharp. London. See: James REEVES,
The Everlasting Circle (1960) printing the unexpurgated texts
collected by Baring-Gould, of which the manuscript is repositoried in
Plymouth Municipal Library.
"BARKOV, Ivan, " pseud.? See: Luka Mudishchev.
BARONS, Kr., and H. WISSENDORFFS. 1898-1915. Latuju Dainas. Riga?
6 vols. (Copy: Library of Congress.) Principal collection of Latvian
folksongs, extending to about 36,000 basic texts, of which vol. 6, "Facetiæ
& Erotica" (texts 34,379 to 35,789) contains 1411 erotic texts, or 3822
including variants. The Kinsey-ISR Library holds a valuable manuscript
analysis of these erotic texts, made apparently by Walter ANDERSON, 1969-72
(signed only with the initial "S"), 43 f., 4to; plus further sheets
alphabetically organized, entitled "Preliminary Analysis of
Female-contributed Latvian folk-songs," by the same hand. (Copy: G. Legman.)
See below.
________. 1957. Latviesu Nerátnás, etc. Copenhagen: "Imanta."
(Copy: Library of Congress.) An abridged and altered edition of vol. 6 of
the preceding work, containing only the erotic songs. A popularly written
work in English has also been published, discussing Barons's extraordinary
collection, but hardly gives a credible idea of either its extent or
importance.
"BARPH, Toshka" [pseud.] 1969. Cookie-Tossers and
Stomach-Turners. "Filthadelphia." MS collection of purposely disgusting
("but not obscene"!) college songs and jokes, including antifamily and
anti-Negro materials, supplied by a young woman for G. Legman's No
Laughing Matter, chapt. 12, "Disease & Disgust." This type of
infantile-aggressive material faddish in the United States as "sick humor"
since 1970s; various volumes of it published by "Blanche Knott," et al.
Compare: SUTTON-SMITH; WOLFENSTEIN; and The Dung Heap & Cesspool Cleaners
Gazette, 1980.
BARRICK, Mac E. 1987. German-American Folklore. Little Rock, Ark.:
August House. Fine research notes. "Frau Wirtin" verses, pp. 86-88. See:
Wirtshaus.
Bar-Room Ballads. See: Lost Limericks and Bar Room Ballads.
Bar Room Tales. [c. 1961.] Toronto? 160 pp., 16mo.
Semi-erotic jokes and verse, pp. 60-71; a sequel to Locker Room Humor,
q.v.
BASKERVILL, Charles R. 1921. English Songs of the Night Visit. PMLA
(Publications, Modern Language Association) 36:565—614.
________. 1929. The Elizabethan Jig, and related song drama.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reprinted 1965, New York: Dover
Publications.
BAUCOMONT, J. 1961. Les Comptines de langue française. Paris:
Seghers. Children's verse, erotic and other. Compare: BORNEMAN; GAIGNEBET;
LOWENSTEIN; McCOSH; OPIE; TURNER.
The Bawd's Book: Being a Collection of Crass and Curious Limericks and
Linoleum Cuts. 1965. San Marino, Calif. [R. A. Billington?] Not seen.
Described by Ray Allen Billington (1981), Limericks Historical and
Hysterical (New York) p. 105, as "A dozen classics, illustrated and
printed in a small edition."
BECK, Horace P. 1952. Down-East Ballads and Songs. Ph.D.
dissertation. University of Pennsylvania. On bawdy songs, pp. i-ii, 295-298,
324-325, and especially 383-418. See also his The Folklore of Maine,
1957, New York: Lippincott.
The Bedroom Companion. 1934. Philip WYLIE, ed. New York: Farrar &
Rinehart. Reprinted, 1941, New York: Arden Book Co. Contains verse, in
particular first printing of the World War II army favorite "Violate Me in
Violet Time," here signed by its author William Soskin.
Bedroom-Party Literature. c. 1950. Privately Printed. Limited
Edition. United States. 70 pp., 8vo. (Copy: G. Legman.) Erotic miscellany in
prose and verse; pp. 53-60 blank, for pasting-in additions, followed by "How
to Love, or The Art of Intercourse, " signed "Douglas MacDougall, M.D."
(The Beggar's Benison.) Records of the most Ancient and Puissant Order
of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland. 1892. "Anstruther" [London:
Leonard Smithers.] 30 pp. With: Supplement to the Historical Portion of
the Records [etc.], being An Account of the proceedings at the Meetings
of the Society, together with excerpts from the Toasts, Recitations,
Stories, Bon-Mots, Speeches and Songs delivered thereat. 1892. "Anstruther"
[London: Smithers.] 91 pp. (PC. 1518-1520; and another copy of the
Supplement, only, in National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.) Note: The
"Beggar's Benison," the name and password of this Scottish secret erotic
society, is revealed in Fr. Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar
Tongue, 1785, as: "May your purse and your prick never fail you!"
Reprinted 1982, Edinburgh: Paul Harris.
BEILENSON, Peter. See: Rowdy Rhymes.
BEITL, K. 1973. Schnaderhüpfel. Handbuch des Volksliedes vol.
I:617-677. München. See also: Wayland HAND, Dissertation; and BLÜMML.
Beiwerke zum Studium der Anthropophytéia. See: Anthropophytéia.
BELDEN, Henry M. 1940. Ballads and Songs collected by the Missouri
Folklore Society. Columbia: University of Missouri Studies. Excellently
researched annotations but expurgated American texts; continued by Beiden
in: BROWN, Frank C., q.v.
BENT, Eric. 1970. Laughs in the Loo. London: Tandem. 142 pp.,
16mo. Obscœna and songs, with cartoon illustrations. ("Loo," British for
toilet, from French lieux.)
BENTLY, Ms. Logan. 1954. Stovepipe Serenade. Mimeographed. Armed
services' and pilots' songs. Editor is a woman. See: GETZ; STARR; and
following.
________, and others, eds. 1956. Stovepipe Serenade. 2d edition.
Compiled at the Worldwide Rocketry Meet, Vincent Air Force Base, Arizona.
(Copy: C. W. Getz.)
Be Pure! 1963. Perth, Western Australia: Engineering Students'
Society, University of Perth. 66 f., sm.4to, mimeographed. (Copy: G.
Legman.) Bawdy Australian college songs. No title; Be Pure! is title
of the first song (in copy seen), noted as published "For all loyal
adherents to the S.C.I.I.A.E.S." Revised and enlarged, 1970, as: Argus
Tuft's Compendium of Verse, q.v.
BÉRANGER, P.-J. de. 1834. Chansons erotiques. Paris. 12mo.
Violently suppressed and very rare, as numbers of Béranger's erotic (and
political) songs achieved folk circulation rapidly.
________. 1937. Same, as: Chansons galantes. Paris: Belle Étoile.
Illustrations by Rojan[kovsky]. Possibly a "cover-edition" for: Chansons
galantes. c. 1940 Paris: Les Bibliophiles libertins. 33 pp., 16mo, with
erotic illustrations in "cherub" style. (Copy: G. Legman.)
________. 1864. Same, as: Les Gaietés de Béranger. Quarante-quatre
chansons erotiques de ce poète. "Amsterdam: Aux dépens de la Compagnie"
[Bruxelles: Aug. Poulet-Malassis]. (3), 173 pp., 16mo, with erotic
frontispiece by F. Rops. (British Museum Library: PC. 235-237; G. Legman.)
________. 1875. Same, enlarged, as: Les Gaietés de Béranger.
"Villafranca: Imprimé par les presses de la Société des Bibliophiles
Cosmopolites" San Remo: Jules Gay. (3), 156 pp., 12mo, with Rops
frontispiece. (PC. 239-240; G. Legman.) The best edition, including
additional songs, pp. 77-153. Compare: COLLÉ; DEBRAUX; and PIRÓN.
BERGSON, Boris. 1975. Privat-pornographie in Deutschland: 1789-1960.
Verfemte erotische Trivial-literatur des bürgerlichen Zeitalters.
Darmstadt: Buchdienst [Melzer]. 2 vols.: 196 and 179 pp., 8vo. Folk-erotica,
with humorous postcard illustrations. Compare: Arschwische.
BERLINER, Friedrich W. 1910. Berliner Dirnenlieder [und] Lieder aus
Brandenburg. Anthropophytéia 7:373-374, and 371-372.
BERNARD, Edmond Dardenne. See: Anthologie Hospitalière; Les Chants du
Quartier Latin; and Trois Orfèvres; also Les Filles de Loth.
BERRY, Henry. 1978. Make the Kaiser Dance. Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday. Interviews with World War I veterans, giving unexpurgated stanzas
of "Mlle. from Armentières." Compare: M. B. CARY.
Beware! See: Parker Folio Manuscript.
Le Bibliophile Fantaisiste, ou Choix de pièces désopilantes et rares.
1869. Turin: J. Gay et fils. 12 nos.: 576 pp., 16mo. (G. Legman, the
Havelock Ellis copy.) Rare scholarly magazine limited to 175 copies sent to
the subscribers secretly by lettermail each month, reprinting old facetious
pieces in prose and verse. Edited by the publisher, Jules GAY, as
continuation of his Pièces désopilantes, 1866, of similar facetiæ,
including a French translation of the Spanish La Carajicomedia
("Liste comique des Putains," 1520; reprinted London 1841). Compare: CARÓN.
Bibliothèque Erotique. 1929. "London" [Detroit: McClurg]. 1 vol.
in 2: 616pp. and photo-plates, 12mo. (Copy: Kinsey-ISR.) Obscœna and verse,
edited and in part written by the publisher, McCLURG.
________. c. 1930. Same, reissued as: Library L'Amour.
"London: Pickadilly Press" [Detroit: McClurg]. 12 pts. in 4 vols., 12mo,
with line drawings, omitting the photo-plates. (Copy: G. Legman.) Compare:
The Book of a Thousand Laughs; and Cleopatra's Scrapbook.
Bilder-Lexikon der Erotik. 1928-31. Leo SCHIDROWITZ, ed. Wien:
Verlag für Kulturforschung. 4 vols. in 8, 8vo. Reprinted 1961 with
additional supplement volumes 9-10, Sexualforschung: Stichwort und Bild.
Armand MERGEN, ed., 1961-63. Indispensable illustrated encyclopedic
work, especially vols. 2, 4, and 9-10, for the bibliography and iconography
of erotic literature, art, and folklore. Compare: HAYN and GOTENDORF;
L'Enfer; and The Private Case.
Bilitis. c. 1950. [Geneva: Sack?] De-luxe erotic miscellany;
includes verse.
BLAIR, Walter. 1937. Native American Humor, 1800-1900. New York.
Reprinted 1960 San Francisco: Chandler Pub. Co. Contains valuable
bibliographies of 19th-century humor.
Blankety Blank Verse. 1910. Boston: Carol Press. 18 pp., 32do.
Doggerel verse illustrating typographical expurgation of profanity.
Les Blasons anatomiques du corps féminin, ensemble Les
Contre-blasons. 1550. Paris: Charles l' Angelier. 156 pp., sq.12mo.
(Enfer 601.) Reprinted 1907, Paris: Sansot. Adolphe van Bever, ed.; and
Paris: Les Parallèles, 1931, Bertrand Guégan, ed. Compare the following
collection.
Blasons, poésies anciennes des XV et XVImes siècles, extraites de
... manuscrits, par M.D.M.M. [D.-M. MÉON.]. 1809. Paris. x, iv, 370, 4 pp.,
8vo, plus extra sheets for cancelled pages 53-64 and 145-148, giving the
erotic Blasons which have been replaced, as published, by anodyne
examples. (The reconstituted copies are very rare.) The most famous late
examples of these erotic anatomical blasons are Pierre de RONSARD'S "Sonnet
masculin et sonnet féminin," remarkably imitated in modern times by H.
Phelps PUTNAM as "Romeo & Juliet" (reprinted in Neurótica 5:22, and
Wm. Cole's Erotic Poetry, 1963; the version in Putnam's Collected
Poems, 1971, pp. 143-144, is an inferior early draft). See further:
VORBERG.
BLINKIEWICZ, B. 1909. Ein polnischer Bigos (Spiewki und Gedichte).
Anthropophytéia 6:352-364. Polish erotic dance-songs and verse, with
German translation. Compare: DROZDANOWSKI; HNATJUK; also Folklore Polski;
and Piosenki Polskie; and the following.
________. 1911. Skatologische Scherzreime aus Russisch-Polen.
Anthropophytéia 8:426-429.
_________1911-12. Schnadahüpfeln (Spiewki) aus Russisch-Polen.
Anthropophytéia 8:374-377, and 9:459-465. Polish erotic dance-songs with
German translation.
BLOM, Xenia. See: Ohio State University Sailing Club.
BLÜMML, Emil Karl. 1905. Welche hätte die Beste? Anthropophytéia
2:110. 1850 version from Vienna of the vaginal bragging-song known in
English as "Three Old Whores from Baltimore." See further: LEHMANN-NITZSCHE;
MÜLLER; SCHNABEL; and SCHWAAB.
_________1905-06. Erotische Lieder aus Oesterreich. Anthropophytéia
2:70-112, and 3:169-217. Schnadahüpfeln and other songs.
________. 1906. Reime beim Fensterin (Gasselreime) aus Steiermark.
Anthropophytéia 3:41-50. Songs of the night-visit to a girl's room.
Compare: BASKERVILL.
________. 1906-07. Erotische Volkslieder aus Deutsch-Oesterreich,
mit Singnoten. Privatdruck. [Wien: Rudolf Ludwig.] 183 pp., 12mo. (PC.
669-670; G. Legman.) Encouraged by F. S. Krauss, Blümml was the first editor
of an important collection of erotic folksong, in any language, signed with
his name. Compare: OSTWALD. See further: F. BILGER, 1911, Einige Urteile
über Blümmls schriftstellerische Arbeiten, Das Deutsche Volkslied
13:35-75.
________, and Gustav GUGITZ, eds. 1924. Der Spittelberg und seine
Lieder. Wien: Privatdruck. Editors' pseudonyms given as: "K.
Giglleithner & G. Litschauer." (PC. 1732; G. Legman.) Whorehouse verse from
the old prostitution quarter of Vienna. Compare: Wiener Blut.
________, and "J. POLSTERER" [pseud. of Josef LATZENHOFER], eds.
1908. Futilitates: Beiträge zur volkskundlichen Erotik. Wien: R.
Ludwig. 4 vols., 8vo. (Copy: G. Legman.) Vol. 1: BLÜMML, Schamperlieder:
Deutsche Volkslieder des 16 bis 19 Jahrhunderts. 180 pp. Vol. 4:
"POLSTERER, " Militaria: Ein Sammlung der typischen handschriftlichen
Literatur des deutsch-österreichischen Soldatenstandes. 205 pp. Vol. 3: see
KOPP.
The Boastful Yak. 1927. By Henri NICOLAI [pseud.].
Privately Printed for the Members of the Zoological Society of Paris. (Fully
Protected) 26 pp., 24to. Bawdy zoöerotic poem, noted as being limited to 51
copies on hand-made rag paper. With this curious limitation compare:
First-Born. (Note: This is not identical with the erotic poem of the
same title by Eugene FIELD, which uses the gambling term "renegue.")
The Bog-House Miscellany. See: The Merry-Thought.
BOLD, Alan. 1978. Making Love: The Picador Book of Erotic Verse.
London: Picador/Pan Books. 253 pp., 12mo. With anonymous sections of erotic
folksongs, especially pp. 182-192 and 203-214, including a sex-hate
recitation, The Ballad of Eskimo Nell, q.v. above.
________. 1979. The Bawdy Beautiful: The Sphere Book of Improper
Verse. London: Sphere Books Ltd. xxix, 257 pp., 16mo. Good basic
rugby-team and army repertory, with perfunctory headnotes; heavily padded
with older items from Pills to Purge Melancholy. The punning title
gives an idea of the tone.
BONTEMPS, Arna, and Langston HUGHES. 1958. The Book of Negro Folklore.
New York. First published texts of Negro recited "toasts,"
simultaneously with Richard DORSON, Negro Tales, p. 87. Compare:
ABRAHAMS; DANCE; JACKSON; and WEPMAN.
The Book of a Thousand Laughs. 1928. By "O. U. Schweinickle" [pseud.
Wheeling, W. Va.]. (Kinsey-ISR; G. Legman.) Obscœna and verse, some in
Pennsylvania-Dutch, including "Frau Wirtin" stanzas. Compare: Arschwische
und Scheissereien; Cleopatra's Scrapbook; Select Reading; The Stag Party;
and Das Wirtshaus an der Lahn; and for older examples of these
erotic miscellanies, Musarum Deliciœ; Wit's Recreations; and
TABOUROT.
A Book of Vulgar Verse. 1981. Toronto: Checkerbooks. See:
Immortalia.
"BORDE, Victor, " pseud. See: R. LEHMANN-NITZSCHE.
BORNEMAN, Ernest. 1973-76. Studien zur Befreiung des Kindes. Unser
Kinder im Spiegel ihrer Lieder: Die Umwelt des Kindes. Ölten,
Switzerland: Walter-Verlag. 4 vols., 8vo. The outstanding collection of
children's erotic rhymes in German. Compare: GODELÜCK; also for other
languages, BAUCOMONT; GAIGNEBET; LOWENSTEIN; McCOSH; TURNER. See further the
fascinating interview with Borneman by Reinhold Aman, prefacing his
festschrift issue of Maledicta, 1979.
The Boudoir: A Magazine of Scandal, Facetiœ, etc. 1883. London:
"H. Smith, 1860" [W. Lazenby]. 6 pts.: 192 pp., 8vo. (PC. 277; Kinsey-ISR.)
Reprinted 1971, New York: Grove Press. A continuation of The Pearl,
q.v.
BRADLEY, S. A. J., ed. 1968. Sixty Ribald Songs from "Pills to Purge
Melancholy." New York: Praeger. See: Pills.
BRAND, Oscar. 1956. In Defense of Bawdy Ballads. Modern Man
January 1957: 8-11, and 51-52, with self-portrait and some expurgated texts.
Further remarks and citations on commercial songwriters' clean-ups of risqué
songs in Old Folk Songs at Home, Saturday Review (New York, 12
December 1953):43. Revised in Brand's The Ballad Mongers: Rise of the
Modern Folk Song, 1962 New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
________. 1960. Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads. New York:
Dorchester Press, Ltd. [Grove Press]. 96 pp., 4to. Expurgated texts, with
music. This was preceded by a best-selling series of ten heavily expurgated
phonograph recordings of similar title, sung by Brand. (See: DISCOGRAPHY,
in progress.) In a letter, 12 May 1960, he notes concerning the
expurgating of this book: "Grove [Press] made me drop out the last verse of
'The Ring Dang Doo,' change buggering one another to buttering one
another in 'Columbo,' and cut out the 'Three Old Whores from Winnepeg'
altogether." On this last, see: Wilhelm MÜLLER and SCHWAAB.
BREDNICH, Rolf W. 1973. Erotisches Lied. Handbuch des Volkliedes
vol. 1, pp. 575-615. München. Extremely valuable contribution.
________. 1979. Erotische Lieder aus 500 Jahren. Frankfurt.
Bréviaire. (Reported title of a recent edition, not seen, of one
of the following collections of French students' "Salles de Garde" songs)
Bréviaire de la Papouille: Recueil de chansons paillardes et
gaillardes, réunies grâce à l'action de Sa Sainteté Pie Crate. 1972.
Nancy: Étudiants de l'Ε.N.S.I. 66 pp., 4to, mimeographed. (Copy: Th. Staub,
Université de Nice.) French students' bawdy songs.
Le Bréviaire du Carabin: Les fameuses Chansons de Salles de Gardes et
d'autres. Des poèmes, des chants classiques, hardyment illustrés. 1974.
Paris: Éditions Médicales Universitaires. 310 pp., sq. 16mo. (Copy: G.
Legman.) Illustrated by Luc Cabane in gross cartoon student humor style.
Standard bawdy students' repertory, with music. "Carabin" is French
slang for a medical student, though art-students and others also sing these
songs. This is not actually the First Series of the following item, of
similar title, but a much later cheap public edition. A later printing,
dated 1976, has 335 pages. This was again reprinted by the same publisher,
1979, with no change except the dated colophon, and the addition of the
trademark registry logograph ® to the folkloristic title! Compare bawdy
illustrations in Anecdota Americana: Second Series, 1934.
Bréviaire du Carabin. 2e Série, contenant Cent Cantiques hardyment
illustrés de Soixante-neuf dessins. Édition du Gland Rose. c.
1950. Édition privée. Paris? 192 pp., 8vo, black paper wrapper. (Copies: A.
Kahn-Sriber, Paris; G. Legman.) With 69 gross amateur drawings in medical
humor folk-style (compare: Bréviaire '70, following). One of the few
editions of the "Chansons de Salle de Garde" containing hitherto unpublished
French medical and art students' songs. The "1st Series" is Chansons de
Carabins, 1946. Compare: Chansons d'Étudiants, c. 1949, of which
vol. 2 also contains unpublished songs.
Bréviaire '70. 1970 Paris? cover-title, 200 pp., sm.8vo,
mimeographed. (Copy: G. Legman.) Crudely produced, and illustrated on almost
every page with gross amateur xeroxlore-style drawings of naïve power and
humor. Perhaps the most interesting students' edition of the "Chansons de
Salle de Garde," q.v. Compare: Gaudeamus Igitur; also STAUB, and the
preceding Bréviaires.
BREWER, J. Mason. 1965. Worser Days and Better Times: The Folklore of
the North Carolina Negro. Chicago: Quadrangle. Compare: DANCE; and
FERRIS.
BREWSTER, Paul G. 1940. Ballads and Songs of Indiana. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press. Excellent research notes.
The Bride's Confession, contained in a Letter to her friend Bella,
otherwise entitled The Bridal Night. c. 1917. Paris: Printed in the
Third Year of the World War [Charles Carrington]. 47 pp., 8vo. (PC. 293)
Poem erroneously attributed to Lord Byron. Not identical with: Bride's
Confessions [no place or date], 15 pp., 8vo. (Bodleian, φ.f.109/1.)
Erotico-didactic, pretendedly written by women. Compare: The Diary of a
Young (French) Stenographer; Adam and Eve; and A Private Interview.
BRIGGS, Bill. c. 1956. Crud and Corruption. Boston.
Mimeographed. College songbook, includes anti-godlin items but not bawdy
despite the brave title.
BRIVIO, Roberto. 1973. Canzoni sporche all'osteria. Milan:
Williams Inteuropa. 159 pp., 4to. Supplement to La Mezzora, No. 141.
(Copies: Giuliano Averna, Lido-Venice; G. Legman.) Italian students'
drinking and erotic songs; the best collection with those of
CASTELLI; CORSO; PITRÈ; and Il Libretto Rosso, q.v.
Broadway Brevities. 1931-35. New York. Vols. 1-13, folio: 125
numbers. (Copies: G. Legman, with Earl Emmons' Inland Printer
collection, forming only known complete set; and Kinsey-ISR, scattered
numbers.) Tabloid weekly newspaper of outspoken sex scandal and humor: "the
Astonishment of its Age," going far beyond Bernarr MacFadden's Daily
Graphic gossip newspaper. Compare: Purple Plums; and Sex to
Sexty.
BRONSON, Bertrand H. 1959-72. The Traditional Tunes of the Child
Ballads, with their texts. Princeton University Press. 4 vols., 4to.
Exhaustive companion-work to CHILD (q.v.). Splendid musical repository;
ruthlessly expurgated texts except for a few lines sung by Séamus Ennis. See
also: GILCHRIST.
BROPHY, John, and Eric PARTRIDGE. 1931. Songs and Slang of the British
Soldier, 1914-1918. 3d edition, carefully revised and very much
enlarged. London: Scholartis Press. (First 2 editions 1930.) Expurgated
texts. Reprinted as: The Long Trail, London: A. Deutsch; and
Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries, 1965. See further: A Martial
Medley, 1931.
BROWN, Frank C. 1952-62. Collection of North Carolina Folklore:
Folk Ballads and Songs, edited by Henry M. BELDEN and Arthur P. HUDSON
(vols. II and III). The Music of the Ballads and Songs, edited by Jan P.
SCHINHAN (vols. IV and V). Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 7 vols.,
8vo. Excellent research notes and superb music editing, but wholly
expurgated texts as collected by Brown. See also: BELDEN.
BROWN, H. "Rap." 1969. Die Nigger Die. New York: Dial Press. Negro
militant "Black activist" propaganda work, with outstanding "Dirty Dozens"
and "signifying" (brag) texts, pp. 26-31, closely related in verbal traits
and inner rhyming format to the older Scottish "flytings" or
contests-in-insult quoted in G. LEGMAN, No Laughing Matter, vol. 2,
pp. 785-790. Compare: ABRAHAMS; FIDDLE; JACKSON; and WEPMAN.
BROWN, Robert Carlton ("Bob"). 1931. Gems: A Censored Anthology.
Cagnes-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes, France): Privately Printed, Roving Eye
Press. 111 pp., 12mo. (N.Y.P.L. 3*; G. Legman.) Spoofing the censorship:
standard poetry specimens made obscene by means of artful expurgation. See
also: Full Dress Suits.
The Brown Book of Locker-Room Humor. 1980. Toronto: Peek-A-Boo
Press [Rexdale, Ontario: Coles Pub. Co.] 16mo. obscœna and verse; in series
with The Pink (and Turquoise) Book of Locker-Room Humor.
Compare: Locker Room Humor (1958); and Bar Room Tales.
BRÜNING, H. Enrique. 1910. Erotische Tanzlieder der Peruaner.
Anthropophytéia 7:341-349 and 399-400; and (1912) 9:470-472. Erotic
dance-songs from Peru, in Spanish, with German translation.
BRUNNER, J. C. 1922. Erotik im Soldatenlied. In his Illustrierte
Sittengeschichte: Krieg und Geschlechtsleben. Frankfurt: Delius Verlag,
and extra plate between pp. 48-49. (Copy: David Miller, New York.) Compare:
HIRSCHFELD and GASPAR.
[BUCHAN, Peter.] 1832. Secret Songs of Silence. By Sir Oliver
Orpheus [pseud.] MS, Aberdeen, (Harvard University Library,
25241:9*). Announced 1985 for forthcoming publication? Erotic supplement to
Buchan's Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland,
Edinburgh, 1828, 2 vols. For details see his biography by William Walker,
which also lists full contents of the MS.
Buchan Bawdry. 1960. See: Kenneth GOLDSTEIN.
The Buck's Bottle Companion: Being a complete collection of humorous,
bottle, and drinking songs. 1775. London: (Folger Library, Washington,
D.C.)
The Buck's Delight, or Love's Repository: Containing the best
collection of Love Prints with discriptions [sic] in verse, That was ever
extracted from the Cabinet of Venus; and now presented to the rising members
of society, by Timothy Tickle-Pitcher. 1779. London? 26 pp., sm.4to,
with 10 winged phallophoric plates. (Copy: Lawrence Gichner, Washington,
D.C. The Gichner Collection is intended to be repositoried in the Kinsey
Institute Library.)
The Buck's Delight, or Merry Companion. Containing a Collection of
Comic Songs . . . by the Sons of Comus. 1783. London: W. Lane. (Bodleian
φ; Reade-Rose, Registrum, no. 634.) Not to be confused with the
similar and erotically illustrated The Buck's Delight, or Love's
Repository, by "Timothy Tickle-Pitcher," Printed in the Year 1779,
above; and The Buck's Delight: A Collection of Humorous Songs (c.
1790), sung at the several Societies, London: T. Knowles, noted in [Wm.
Laird CLOWES'S] Bibliotheca Arcana (1885) no. 346.
BUDZINSKI, Klaus, and Hans R. SCHATTER. 1967. Liederliche Lieder:
erotische Volkslieder aus fünf Jahrhunderten. München, Bern, Wien:
Scherz Verlag. 448 pp., 12mo. Includes, inter alia, materials from
the Fräulein von CRAILSHEIM Manuscript, 1749 (on which see: KOPP), as
"Aus des Fräuleins von Crailsheim Liederkranz, " pp. 65-110, which is true
gratitude for a priceless early record.
BULLEN, Arthur H. 1889. Speculum Amantis. London. Collection of
older erotic art-poetry in English. Compare: CUTTS; FARMER; SMITH; and
WARDROPER.
BURKE, Carol. 1989. Marching to Vietnam. Journal of American Folklore
102:424-441. Outstandingly courageous discussion and record of American
air pilot anti-civilian gloat songs of war-horror by American air-pilots
such as "Napalm Sticks to Kids," with unexpurgated texts. See also: GETZ;
and Tuso.
BURNS, Robert. See: Merry Muses of Caledonia; and Scots Musical
Museum; also James C. DICK; Peter BUCHAN; David HERD; George R. KINLOCH;
James MAIDMENT; and C. Kirkpatrick SHARPE.
BURSON Collectanea. 1959. MS. Los Angeles. Collection of 50 bawdy
college songs made at the University of California. (Copies: Edw. Cray; G.
Legman.)
CAHIER de Chansons de Jean Lapipe. See: Bernard ROY.
CAIRENE, A. [pseud.]. c. 1902. Sixfold Sensuality, or
The Sensual Pleasure-giving Exercises of an ingenious acrobatic Family.
London and New York: Erotica Biblion Society [Paris]. 111 pp., 12mo. (PC.
323; G. Legman.) Illiterate pornographic tale, possibly by a Cairene as
stated, with curious original (?) erotic poems inserted.
Callipygia, Lesbiae Veronensis (Catulli Puellæ): Carmen nunc primum in
lucem editum. 1891. Paris: Isidore Liseux. Pp. (9)-24, 8vo. No title
page. Cover title: "Poemata Latina Inédita, Pars I." No more
published? (PC. 326) Compare: Priapeia.
CAMERON, Paul. See under: Paul F. GILBERT.
Camp Fire Songs and Verse. Collected by a well known Cavalry Regiment.
c. 1939. Madras, India. (3), (75) f. folio, mimeographed. (Only two
surviving copies known: Harry Morgan, London; G. Legman.) The most important
modern British collection of soldiers' unexpurgated songs. Compiled during
the "Phoney War" period of 1939 or 1940, and not by a cavalry
regiment but in the air force, as evidenced in the text. Compare: GETZ;
HENDERSON; HOPKINS; PAGE; and STARR; also North Atlantic Squadron.
CANÀ, Ettore, and Lodovico MOSCONI. 1973. I Pianeti della fortuna:
canzoni e vignette popolari. Milano: Vanni Scheiwiller.
CANTAGALLI, R. 1972. Con rispetto parlando. Milano? Sugar.
Carmina prose et rithmi, edite in laudem podice sacerdotalis, contra
prosam excusare conantem scandalosissimum concubinatum. c. 1505.
(Colophon: Qui faciebat Nicholaus Lebzelter GUNDELFINGIUS, V. & T ... V.
V.) [no place or date] 4 f., sm.4to. (Bodleian, Antiq. e.U.20.)
Compare: CASTELLI; KÜHLEWEIN; VORBERG; and Medulla Facetiarum. Oldest
known printed obscœnum.
[CARON de Beaumarchais, Simon.] 1802. Le Plat de Carnaval, ou Les
Beignets apprêtés par Guillaume Bonnepâte [pseud.; Paris]. 148
pp., 8vo. Limited to 56 sets. (Copy: G. Legman.) Reprints of old facetiæ and
modern bawdy pieces in prose and verse. This is pt. 7 of Caron's Recueil
de poésies anciennes, farces, et facéties, 1798-1806 (later supplemented
by Montaran and by Du Roure), privately printed in Baskerville types used by
his relative, the playwright Beaumarchais, for the sumptuous "Kehl" edition
of Voltaire. Owing to the mock on Napoléon Bonaparte's name on the title,
the book was completely suppressed by police action. Reprinted as vol. 4 of
Barraud's Recueil de pièces rares et facétieuses, 1872-74, Paris. One
erotic Latin poem, added to some copies of Caron's original edition, as
"AEnigma, " reprinted and translated in Jules Gay's Le Bibliophile
Fantaisiste (Juin 1869) pp. 277-282, as "L'Enculeur sans Reproche."
CARPENTER, James M. Unpublished manuscript collection of the folksongs,
folk-plays (British), sea-chanties, etc., made in America and Britain from
the 1920s to 1950s without expurgation; now deposited in the Library of
Congress Folklife and Folksong Archive. With this important MS collection
(in part indexed by Michael Preston), compare: GORDON; HUGILL; LEGMAN,
The Ballad: Unexpurgated; and RANDOLPH, "Roll Me In Your Arms, "
and "Blow the Candle Out" (1990).
CARY, Henry N. See: Treasury of Erotic and Facetious Memorabilia.
CARY, Melbert B., Jr. 1930-35. Mademoiselle from Armentières. New
York: Press of the Woolly Whale. 2 vols., 12mo. (Copy: Brown University
Library.) The locus classicus on this principal army song of World
War I, with an introduction on the musical origins of the song, by Robert W.
GORDON. Compare BERRY; and WINTERICH.
CASE, Arthur E. 1935. Bibliography of English Poetical Miscellanies:
1521-1750. Oxford: Bibliographical Society. Comprises the unexpurgated
drolleries of the late 17th century; list importantly enlarged by Norman
AULT in Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (1940) vol. 2,
pp. 173-256. Compare: DAY and MURRIE; WARDROPER; and FOXON; and for the
background of the drollery period, Douglas Bush (date?), English
Literature in the earlier 17th Century (Oxford); and Joseph Stokes,
"Wit and Drollery," 1656 (Yale dissertation, 1935).
CASTELLI, Alfredo. 1974. I Canti Goliardici N. 2 [i.e., 2d
Series]. Milano: Williams-Inteuropa. 158 pp., 4to. Supplement to magazine
Collana Cabaret. (Copies: Giuliano Averna, Lido-Venice; G. Legman.)
Excellent study and texts of modern Italian students' drinking and erotic
songs and obscœna, considered as survivals of the "Carmina Burana" of
medieval Goliard students. Valuable bibliography, pp. 154—156. See also: Il
Libretto Rosso (the First Series of the above work); PITRÈ; BRIVIO;
CORSO; DE BOCCARD; MASCHERI; Decamerino; Gaudeamus Igitur; and I
Piu' Volgari Canti; as well as the more ancient Carmina prose et
rithmi, above.
Caution! See: Nancy WRIGHT.
CELA, Camilo José. 1968-71. Diccionario Secreto. Madrid: Ediciones
Alfaguara. 2 vols., sq.8vo. Erudite lexicographical study by the Mallorcan
novelist, arranged by anatomical sexual parts. Further volumes in progress.
CHAMBERS, Robert. 1826. The Popular Rhymes of Scotland. Edinburgh;
re-edited, 1870.
Chansonnier du Bordel, ou Veillées d'un Fouteur. c. 1830.
"Paphos." 71 pp., 16mo. Same: 1833. Nouvelle édition. Paris: Se trouve chez
Vénus, à Bagatelle. 90 pp. and plates, 16mo. (PC. 347; Enfer 1014;
and G. Legman, two different editions dated 1834 and 1840.) The principal
collection of 19th-century French erotic folk-poetry. But compare:
Anthologie erotique; and G. PARIS, Le Gai Chansonnier.
Le Chansonnier de Société. 1812. Paris. Contains a few erotic
folksongs, cited by G. Paris in Le Gai Chansonnier français, q.v.
Le Chansonnier des Internes de Lille. 1927. Association des
Anciens Internes des Hôpitaux de Lille. (2), 110 pp., lg. 4to. (Enfer
1103) The first openly published collection of the French medical and art
students' bawdy "Chansons de Salles de Garde." Compare: Anthologie
Hospitalière; Bréviaire; and especially STAUB; as well as the dozen
following items.
Chansons de Carabins. 1930. Recueil édité par le Section de
Médecine de l'Association Générale des Étudiants de Grenoble. Chansons
recueillies par les Choristes de l' A. G. Grenoble. 63 pp., 8vo. (Unique
copy: Bibl. Publ. de Grenoble-Enfer 136.) "Carabin" is slang for a
medical student.
Chansons de Carabins. 1946. Switzerland [sic]: Éditions C.S.C. 140
pp., 4to. (PC. 348) A différent and larger collection than the preceding.
Continued as: Bréviaire du Carabin, 2e Série, c. 1950 (q.v.) which
includes hitherto unpublished student songs.
Chansons d'Étudiants. c. 1949. Paris. 2 vols., sm.4to. (Copy: G.
Legman.) For almost the first time — compare preceding items — hitherto
unpublished and non-routine students' bawdy songs are included in vol. 2
here. None of the editions contain all the current bawdy songs the
students sing, for example "Branlez le Mammouth!" sung by skiers while
climbing the mountainside, as noted 1986 from an account by a Grenoble
female student.
________. 1968. Same title. Paris: Maloine. 256 pp., 8vo, with music and
illustrations. (Copy: Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine, Paris.) Note:
Not the same work as the preceding item.
Chansons des Étudiants de Montpellier. 1935. Association Générale
des Étudiants de Montpellier. (At head: Monôme du 1 mars) 20
pp., 8vo. (Enfer 1144) Small collection of usual bawdy songs, but the
open provenance is unusual. Compare collections just above, openly issued by
students of Lille and Grenoble.
Chansons d'Internat. 1932. Lyon. 4to pamphlet series, with colored
illustrations and the music. (Copy: G. Legman.)
Chansons de Salles de Garde. Avec la musique et 53 dessins de Marcel
Prangey. 1930. "Amsterdam: Editions du Scorpion" [in France]. 288 pp.,
sq.8vo; 50 songs, with the music. (Copies: New York Academy of Medicine
Library S102a; Alain Kahn-Sriber, Paris; G. Legman.) Reprinted with
dates 1931 and 1936, and later on cheaper paper, sq.12mo. According to
valuable review by André COEURY in Gringoire (Paris, 12 October
1934), section "La Musique," entitled "Dupanloup et Cie," the "Amsterdam"
imprint is false and this edition "vient en droite ligne d'une de nos
provinces où l'on aime à manger et boire, et où la Faculté groupe un nombre
imposant d'étudiants joyeux."
________. 1938. Same. Lucerne (Suisse): Les Editions des Quatre Cantons.
144 pp., 4to, with illustrations signed "Pan" [J.-P. MORVAN]. Text abridged,
with half as many songs and pages as the preceding.
________. 1948. Same. "Aux dépens d'un Amateur." Paris: Gilbert? sm.4to.
This edition with illustrations [by Joseph HÉMARD].
________. c. 1949. Same. "A l'Enseigne des 3 Orfèvres" Paris. 4to.
(Copy: G. Legman.) As the title imprint suggests, text taken from Bernard's
own abridgment as 3 Orfèvres à la Saint-Eloi (q.v.) 40 songs, with
music; and illustrations and plates signed "Ilop" (Poli?)
________. 1954. Same. "Le Magasin Pittoresque" Paris. Text as above.
_________1958. Same. Paris: Au Soleil Noir [Eric Losfeld, or B. Amaroux?]
189 pp., 8vo. (Copies: A. Kahn-Sriber, Paris; G. Legman.) Text as above. A
daring edition for its date, the "Soleil Noir" being a well-known bookshop
at St. Germain-des-Prés specializing then in surréalisme (upstairs) and
erotica (in the secret cellar). See: G. LEGMAN, Introduction to P. J.
Kearney, The Private Case, 1981, p. 46.
________. 1971. Same. Éditions Michèle Trinckvel. Paris. 209 pp., 4to,
(Copy: G. Legman.) With colored illustrations, "humorously ugly," by DUBOUT,
whose name appears at the head of the title page as though the author.
Openly published but limited de luxe edition. Reprinted 1978. The
illustration at p. 202 is a version of the folk-art "Fucking Machine," with
speeds marked: "Lento — Moderato — Allegro — Furioso
— 7èlerne Ciel."
Les Chansons de Salle de Garde. 1962. Paris: Cercle du Livre
Précieux [Claude Tchou]. 444 pp., nar.4to. (Enfer 1650) Introduction
and bibliography of 25 similar editions, by G. LEGMAN. Text is selected (but
not the same selection as in preceding editions) from Anthologie
Hospitalière, q.v. Four illustrations in this edition, at pp. 161, 219,
227, 301, have blank Japanese-style oblongs wiping out the genital area and
action of the personages! In the 1972 reprint below, these four
illustrations are completely omitted.
_________1972. Same. Paris: Régine Deforges, L'Or du Temps [J.-J.
Pauvert]. 442 pp., nar.4to. Reprint of preceding edition, with 4
illustrations omitted as noted above.
Chansons des Salles de Garde et d'ailleurs. 1928. Illustrées par
R.B.K. [R. Bécat?]. Paris. 8vo. Reprinted, "Edition des Amis" [Paris, c.
1952]. 96 pp., sq.16mo. (Enfer 1435; G. Legman.)
Chansons de Salle de Garde et du Quartier Latin. 1950? Se vend à
Paris: à l'enseigne de la Feuille de Rose [Nice?]. (72) pp., 8vo, with
music. (Copy: Alain Kahn-Sriber, Paris.) The mock-imprint "la Feuille de
Rose" is French slang for anilinctus.
Chansons Estudiantines. 1934. Marseille: SMUC/AGEM, University
Students' Club. Also, with illustrations by Jean DRATZ [Genève, c.
1950]. Compare: Recueil de Chansons Estudiantines, 1971. Note: For
further and earlier editions of the "Chansons de Salles de Garde" see in
particular: BERNARD; CHENAILLER; DOMINIQUE; LENOIR; MARTY; REYMOND; and
especially STAUB; and titles: Anthologie Hospitalière; Bréviaire; Chants;
Filles de Loth; Fleurs du Mâle; Monôme; Plaisir des Dieux; Quarante
Gauloises; Quelques Chansons; Recueil de Chansons; Salle de Garde;
Soixante-neuf Chansons; and Trois Orfèvres.
Chanson et Société. Mars 1974. Paris? I.N.R.D.P. (Textes et
Documents pour la Classe, No. 126.) 32 pp., 4to. (Copy: Th. Staub,
Université de Nice.) Meaningful discussion: a college cram-book.
Chansons Gaillardes et Bachiques. See: DOMINIQUE.
Chansons joyeuses du XIXe siècle. 1866. Yverdon: Imprimerie
particulière [Bruxelles: Jules Gay]. 2 vols.: xii, 252 and 270 pp., 16mo. (Enfer
620-621) Variant edition of Gay's Les Gaudrioles du XIXe siècle.
Compare: POULET-MALASSIS, Parnasse Satyrique.
Chansons Russes. 1901. Kryptádia 7:67-74. Russian erotic
songs and parodies, with French translation. Compare: Folklore de la
Grande Russie; and KRAUSS.
Les Chants du Quartier Latin et de l'Internat. c. 1931. Paris:
Guibal? for E. Dardenne Bernard. 4to, with the music. (Copy: G. Legman.)
Edited by Edmond Dardenne BERNARD, as a supplement to his Anthologie
Hospitalière et Latinesque (1911-13) and its partial reprinting in 1930
as Trois Orfèvres à la Saint-Éloi. Gives the musical notation,
apparently for the first time, for these "Chansons de Salles de Garde," all
later printed music for these (except that of STAUB, q.v.) being largely
derived from this edition, and not collected in the field. See Bernard's
further erotic art-poem supplement as Les Filles de Loth.
CHAPPELL, Louis W. 1939. Folk-Songs of Roanoke and the Albemarle.
Morgantown, W. Va.: The Ballad Press. 203 pp., 8vo. The first publicly
published field collection in English since HERD, q.v. in 1776, with the
courage to include a few mildly erotic songs (Nos. 60 and 87) without
expurgation. But compare: FAUSET; and MacCOLL and SEEGER, Travellers'
Songs.
CHAPPELL, William. 1855-59. Popular Music of the Olden Time.
London. 1 vol. in 2, 8vo. Reprinted 1965, New York: Dover Pubs. [Cited
as: CHAPPELL.] See important revision at: SIMPSON, The British
Broadside Ballad and Its Music (1966).
________. 1893. Same, revised as: Old English Popular Music, H. E.
Wooldridge, ed. London. 2 vols., 4to. Reprinted 1961, New York: Brüssel. The
music-editing is much improved from the 1859 original, but all "merely
traditional" material is omitted! Compare: SIMPSON.
CHAPPLE, J. M. 1909. Heart Songs. Boston. Large collection of
sentimental old favorites. Compare: WIER.
CHATTERTON, Thomas. 1933. The Letter Paraphras'd: An Unpublished poem.
Privately Printed for A.B.C. [Metuchen, N.J.: Charles Heartman.] 6 pp.,
12mo. With introduction signed "M. O. Hunter," i.e., Thomas O. MABBOTT of
Hunter College, New York, a girls' school. (PC. 351-352; G. Legman.
Chatterton's MS of this bagatelle [1769] is also in the British Museum
Library.) Insultingly erotic poem in reply to a girl who had refused in
verse, an appointment with Chatterton on the ground of his being too young.
Reprinted.
CHENAILLER, Capt. ante 1975. Chansons de marins, et autres.
Rassemblées par le Capitaine de Frégate CHENAILLER, Commandant de la Marine
marchande et ancien des F.N.F.L. Lorient: Éditions et Imprimerie de
Bretagne. 36 pp., 8vo. (Copy: Faugeras, Faculté de Lettres, Nantes.) See:
STAUB, p. 11, on this very general collection, which contains not only
sea-songs but pop songs by Tino Rossi and "Le Mec à Maman." Compare: HAYET;
and ROY.
CHENEY, Thomas E. 1968. Mormon Songs from the Rocky Mountains.
Austin: University of Texas Press. Not as expurgated as one might expect.
CHESHIRE, D. F. 1974. Music Hall in Britain. Newton Abbot: David &
Charles. With section on the "Prudes on the Prowl" affair of 1894. See:
SPEAIGHT; and The Cuckold's Nest.
Chez les Wallons de Belgique: Crâmignons. 1902. Kryptádia
8:45-68. Wallon erotic dance-songs, with French translation.
CHILD, Francis J. 1882-98. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.
Cambridge, Mass. 5 vols., 4to. Reprinted 1957, New York: Pageant Book
Co., Folklore Press; 1965, Dover Pubs. See further: BRONSON; and COFFIN. The
basic work of research on English-language folk ballads; but wholly
expurgated texts. (See: G. Legman, The Horn Book, 1964, pp. 343-352.)
Choyce Ayres and Songs. 1679. London. Drollery collection.
Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets. 1656. London. Reprinted,
edited by J. Woodfall EBSWORTH, Boston, Lincolnshire, 1876. As noted at
reprint pp. 229-230 and 243, a "Supplement of Reserved Songs from Merry
Drollery, 1661" was issued privately by the editor at the same time, to
be inserted between pages 256-257, comprising expurgated and omitted songs
referred to, p. 243, as "The Chamber of Horrors." Ebsworth also reprinted in
the same way, but without "Supplements," Merry Drollery Compleat
(1661-91: reprint 1875), and Westminster Drollery (1671-72), q.v. See
also: Bagford Ballads; and Roxburghe Ballads.
CHRISTIE, William. 1876-81. Traditional Ballad Airs. Edinburgh. 2
vols. 4to. Compare: BRONSON; William CHAPPELL; and SIMPSON.
Cleopatra's Scrapbook. 1928 edition. 51 B.c. Blue Grass, Kentucky
[Wheeling, West Virginia?] (4) xxxii, 119 pp., 16mo, with additional pp.
45A-H, and two fold-over erotic inserts (reprinted in Dundes and Pagter's
1975 Work Hard, pp. 189-191). (Copies: Kinsey-ISR; G. Legman.)
Valuable folk publication of obscœna and verse. Compare: Bibliothèque
Erotique; Forbidden Fruit; Select Reading; and The Stag Party;
also the more recent "DODSON"; and The Book of a Thousand Laughs.
The Cockchafer. See: The Cuckold's Nest; and Rambler's
Flash Songster.
COFFIN, Tristram P. 1950. The British Traditional Ballad in North
America. Philadelphia: American Folklore Society (Bibliographical
Series, vol. 2.). Revised edition, 1963. Also 1977, R. Renwick, ed. Austin,
Texas. Additional listings to CHILD; and BRONSON; cf. SHEPARD; LAWS.
COHEN, J. M. 1952. The Penguin Book of Comic and Curious Verse.
London: Penguin Books. With sequels: More Comic and Curious Verse,
1956; and Yet More Comic and Curious Verse, 1959. The best such
anthology. Compare: Oscar WILLIAMS.
COLCORD Bruno, Joanna. 1924. Roll and Go. Indianapolis. Revised
and in part de-expurgated, as: Songs of American Sailormen, 1938, New
York: Norton. Reprinted 1964, New York: Oak Pubs. Compare: HUGILL; and SHAY.
COLE, William. 1963. Erotic Poetry: The Lyrics, ballads, idyls, and
epics of love — classical to contemporary. New York: Random
House. Reprinted 1964, London. Excellent updating of T. R. SMITH'S
Poética Erotica, q.v. Compare: BOLD, Making Love.
COLLÉ, Charles. 1784. Chansons qui n'ont pu être imprimées et que mon
censeur n'a point dû me passer. Paris. 212 pp., 12mo. (PC. 457-462) Also
issued as Poésies libertines; and many later editions of these erotic
songs. Compare: BÉRANGER; DEBRAUX; PIRÓN; and Chansonnier du Bordel.
A Collection of Old Ballads. 1723-25. London. 3 vols. Reprinted,
c. 1870, edited by Ambrose Phillips and David Mallet. See Legman,
The Horn Book, pp. 339-342, on total expurgation of this work.
College Folklore: A Collection. 1957. Made on the campus of the
University of Arkansas by Eddie O'RELL. Fayetteville, Ark. (v), 94 pp., 4to,
typewritten MS. (Copies: Kinsey-ISR, callmark EM-Anon.Coll.; G. Legman.)
Erotic poems, songs, humorous obscœna and storiettes. Type-written sticker
on title page states: "Gift of Vance Randolph, who did not collect it, did
not put it together, did not stimulate it."
COLLIER, John Payne. See: Roxburghe Ballads, Hindley, ed.
The Combined Universities' Songbook. 1965. Sydney, Australia. 176
pp., 8vo. Extensive British college song collection; includes a few
unexpurgated texts. (Copies: the late Donald Laycock, Canberra; G. Legman.)
COMBS, Josiah H. 1925. Folk-Songs du Midi des Etats-Unis. Paris:
Presses Universitaires. English-language version as: Folk-Songs of the
Southern United States. 1967. D. K. Wilgus, ed. Austin: University of
Texas Press. (Publications of the American Folklore Society, Bibliographical
Series, vol. 19.) The French translation of the MS was made originally by
Mrs. Combs.
________. c. 1952. Pneumatology, by "Count de la Fartte."
MS, Charlottesville, Virginia. Collection of prose and poetry texts,
original and in translation from French, 17th century to 20th, on farting.
The present whereabouts of this MS unknown: the title may also have been
changed to Vox Humana.
Conklin-Jones MS. See: Lewis JONES.
The Convivial Songster. 1782. London: J. Fielding. Complained of,
in S. Baring-Gould's English Minstrelsie (1895) p. xx, as
"overflowing" with Thomas D'Urfey's "uncleanly muse . . . full of filth of
the most disgusting character, of filth unredeemed by genuine humor." In
fact, mostly very mild.
COPLAND, Robert. See: Jyl of Brentford's Testament, c. 1547.
CORSO, Rafaelle. 1914. Das Geschlechtsleben in Sitte, Brauch, Glauben
und Gewohnheitrecht des Italienischen Volkes. Nach der Handschrift
verdeutscht von Prof. J. K. [Johannes Kostiál]. Nicotera: Im Selbsverlag des
Verfassers. (Anthropophytéia, Beiwerke, vol. 7.) viii, 238 pp.,
folio. "Von den erotischen Liedern," pp. 143-198, with German translation in
parallel columns; followed by "Blasioni licenziosi," pp. 199-208, and a
sexo-scatological glossary of Italian. Basic collection on Italian erotic
folklore. Compare: BRIVIO; CANTAGALLI; CASTELLI; and especially PITRÈ; and
OSTERMANN.
________. 1911. Vom Geschlectleben in Kalabrien. Anthropophytéia
8:137-159. Calabrian erotic folksongs; Italian texts with German
translation.
Cosmopolite, Le. See: Les Muses en belle humeur, 1742.
COULON, Marcel. 1933. La Poésie priapique au XVIe siècle. Paris:
Éditions du Trianon [Dr. Kahan]. 212 pp., sq.12mo. (Enfer 1116; G.
Legman.) Compare: ARNAUT; POULAILLE; SCHWOB; Le Gai Chansonnier; and,
for the format, Les Priapées (at Priapeia).
Covent Garden Drolery. 1672. "Written by the refined'st Witts of
the Age, and collected by A.B. [Aphra BEHN]." London. Reprinted 1927,
Montague Summers, ed. London: Fortune Press. (New York Public Library *KP.)
1672. Same, The Second Impression, with additions. London: J. Magnes.
(Folger Library, Washington, D.C.) Reprinted 1928, George Thorn-Drury, ed.
London. (New York Public Library 8-NCI.) The best edition, the Summers
reprint being a mere catch-guinea rushed into print a trifle earlier by this
notorious fake-scholar occultist. Original editor of this drollery was not
A. or R. Brome, as sometimes stated, but the first professional English
woman of letters, Aphra (née Johnson) BEHN. Compare: Unexpurgated.
The Covent Garden Jester, or The Rambler's Companion . . . 1785.
"By Roger Ranger, Gent." [pseud.] London: J. Walker. 88 pp.,
frontispiece and plates, 12mo. (Copy: British Museum Library, bound with
another less interesting jestbook of similar title, The Covent-Garden
Jester, or Man of Fashion's Companion. 1795? London: J. Sudbury.)
Includes verse and obscœna, for example "A Theatrical Love Epistle," pp.
41-43, two letters composed of current theatre play-titles.
Cox, John Harrington. 1925. Folk Songs of the South. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press. Reprinted 1963 with foreword by A. K.
Davis; Hatboro, Penn.: Folklore Associates; and 1967 New York: Dover Pubs.
Splendidly researched in best tradition of F. J. Child and his disciple G.
L. Kittredge.
CRAILSHEIM, Fräulein von. See: BUDZINSKI; and KOPP.
CRAWHALL, Joseph. 1883. Olde Tayles newlye Relayted. London.
[CRAY, Edward B.] 1959. Songs from the Ash Grove. Los Angeles,
Calif: Ash Grove. 47 pp., 8vo. Ventures a few mildly bawdy texts.
_________. 1965. The Dirty Song Book: American Bawdy Songs.
Compiled by E. R. LINTON
[pseud.] Los Angeles: Medco Books [Sherbourne Press]. 152
pp., 12mo. Preliminary edition, without music, of the following item.
Compare: SILVERMAN.
_________. 1969. The Erotic Muse. New York: Oak Publications.
xxxvi, 272 pp., lg.8vo. Reprinted 1972, New York: Pyramid Pubs.; and as
Bawdy Ballads: A History [!] of Bawdy Songs. 1970. London:
Odyssey Press. Good basic college-students' repertory of 95 current songs,
but texts are ruthlessly "edited," revised, and heavily conflated, and the
tunes given are often weird approximations (compare: LEACH) with
mock-musicological commentary. Compiler's name does not appear on the title
page, but only in the copyright notice, page iv. Compare: "LINTON," The
Dirty Song Book, preceding. A revision is announced, 1990.
The Cream of the Crap. 1968. (Unpublished collection made by John
NEWBERN, q.v., of the "too-hot-to-handle" jokes, poems, and obscœna sent in
by readers of his Sex to Sexty and Super Sex to Sexty
semibawdy humor magazines. Most of this material was issued by him as The
World's Dirtiest Jokes, 1969, by "Victor Dodson," Los Angeles, along
with an almost surreptitious pocket-reprint for mass distribution of
Immortalia, q.v., also in 1969. The leftover sex-gags and cartoons were
combined as a "men's" almanac, the 1968 He-Μan Daily Diary and Stemwinder
Reminder, from an east-coast address, New York: Arroco Pub. Co., for
presentation to all Newbern's customers, with the sentiment printed in gold
inside the padded leatherette cover: "FOR A BUDDY, FROM BIG BAD JOHN.")
The Cremorne: A Magazine of Wit, Facetiæ, Parody, Graphic Tales of
Love, etc. 1882. London: "Cheyne Walk, Privately Printed, 1851" [W.
Lazenby]. 3 pts.: 96 pp., 8vo. (PC. 507) Sequel to The Pearl and
The Boudoir, q.v.
CROWLEY, Aleister. 1898. White Stains. The Literary Remains of
George Archibald Bishop [pseud.], a Neuropath of the Second
Empire. [London: Leonard Smithers.] Repr. 1973, London: Duckworth. Erotic
art-poetry in imitation of Baudelaire and Swinburne. The entire edition of
another of Crowley's erotic poems, Alexandra [1906, Paris: Ph.
Renouard] "is supposed to have been destroyed by the British Customs for
Obscenity and lèse-majesté' in 1910," presumably as concerning the
then Queen of England or Alexandra, Empress of Russia. See also: MOTTA, for
Crowley's leg-pull Scented Garden, or Bagh-i-Muattar.
________. 1904—05. Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden. "1881 A.D.
Cosmopoli: Imprimé sous le manteau, et ne se vend nulle part" [Paris:
Philippe Renouard, for the Author]. (3), xx, 167 pp., sm.8vo. 100 copies
printed, of which only three are now known to survive. (Enfer 1355:
Gerald Yorke, London.) Reprinted 1986, Martin Starr, ed. Chicago: Teitan
Press. Obscene parodies, as "The Bromo Book"; with a travesty eroticum "The
Nameless Novel," pp. 1-77, quoted in part in Patrick J. Kearney, A
History of Erotic Literature (1982 London: Macmillan) pp. 124-125; and
"Triolets," in praise of the vagina, reprinted in LAYCOCK, pp. 48-50.
________. c. 1978. Léa Sublime. Montreal? Peter Macfarlane?
See: G. Legman, No Laughing Matter (1975) "Cloacal Intercourse," pp.
344-347, giving three central stanzas. Reprinted 1987, Panic Press.
Crowley's erotic Clouds Without Water "by Rev. Verey" not reprinted.
The Cuckold's Nest of Choice, Flash, Smutty and Delicious Songs, with
Rummy Toasts. c. 1865. "Adapted for Gentlemen Only." London, W. West. 48
pp., 24to. (PC. 513. Bound with three similar songsters: see at The
Rambler's Flash Songster.) Note the list of nearly 50 such bawdy
"songsters and reciters" of low music hall songs of the mid-19th century in
H. S. Ashbee, Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877) pp. 133-137, further
discussion of these in G. Legman, The Horn Book (1964), pp. 20-21,
379-380; and George Speaight, Bawdy Songs of the Early Music Hall
(1975), q.v. There are a number of these pocket-size songsters preserved in
the Bodleian Library (Douce Bequest and W. N. H. Harding Collection), and a
remarkable further group of 50 — not the same 50 listed by Ashbee —
in the British Museum Library: call-mark C. 116.a.6-55.
Cupid's Horn-book. 1936. Songs and ballads of marriage and of
cuckoldry. Mount Vernon, Ν. Υ. : Published at the Sign of the
Blue-Behinded Ape [Peter Beilenson]. 152 pp., lg.8vo. Mostly reprints of
17th-and 18th-century materials, edited by the publisher Peter BEILENSON.
The Curiosities of Street Literature. See: HINDLEY.
"CURNONSKY." See: SAILLAND.
"CURRAN, William" [pseud.]. 1938. Clean Dirt. 500
anecdotes, stories, poems, toasts, and wisecracks. Buffalo, N.Y. (At head:
"Volume I," but no more published.) 256 pp., 8vo, with supplement of 5
mimeographed leaves of bawdier stories. (Copy: G. Legman.) Compare: Jest
on Sex.
CUTTS, John P. 1959. Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press. Collected and edited from the
original music MS. Anonymous texts only, in supplement to Norman AULT,
Elizabethan Lyrics, and Seventeenth Century Lyrics (both 1928).
See also: William S. BRAITHWAITE, The Book of Elizabethan Verse
(1908, London), 823 pp.; and compare here: CHAPPELL; RAVENSCROFT; SIMPSON;
and WARDROPER.
Cythera's Hymnal, or Flakes from the Foreskin: A Collection of Songs,
Poems, Nursery Rhymes, Quiddities, etc., never before published. 1870.
"Oxford: Printed at the University Press, for the Society for Promoting
Useful Knowledge" [London: John Camden Hotten?]. 85 pp., 8vo. (Bodleian φ;
photo-facsimiles, P.C. 529; G. Legman.) Written and edited by a barrister,
Frederick Popham PIKE; Edward SELLON, and George Augustus SALA. On this
unpleasant work see H. S. Ashbee (1877), Index Librorum Prohibitorum,
pp. 185-187; and G. Legman (1964), The Horn Book, pp. 394-395, and
437. Compare: Dirt, An Exegesis, below, also concentrating on
aggressively nasty themes; and the Introduction to G. LEGMAN, The New
Limerick (1977), section "The Mask of Humor."
U ALLAS, Karl. 1974. One Hundred Songs of Toil. London: Wolfe Pub.
Ltd. 450 Years of Workers' Songs. 255 pp., 8vo. Contains "The Pitman's
Lovesong," pp. 169-171, and other unexpurgated materials, with peculiarly
truculent and irrelevant notes.
DANCE, Ms. Daryl Cumber. 1978. I'm a Bad Motherfucker: Tales of
the Bad Nigger (Rhymed toasts). In Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from
contemporary Black Americans, chapt. 13, pp. 197-199, and 224-239
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Compare: ABRAHAMS; FERRIS; FIDDLE;
JACKSON; and WEPMAN.
"DARDENNE, Edmond." See: BERNARD; and Anthologie Hospitalière.
"Dave E. Jones" [pseud.] See: "JONES, Dave E."
DAVIDS, R. M. See under: Robert W. GORDON.
DAVIS, Arthur Kyle, Jr. 1928. Some Problems of Ballad Publication.
Musical Quarterly 14:283-296. See following.
_________1960. More Traditional Ballads of Virginia. Chapel Hill,
N.C.: Duke University Press. The only one of the academic "Child Ballad"
collections that calls for attention to be paid to the bawdy element in
English-language balladry.
DAY, Cyrus L., and Eleanore B. MURRIE. 1940. English Song-Books,
1651-1702. London: Bibliographical Society. With invaluable index of all
the songs. An unpublished manuscript supplement to this index, of
equal value, was prepared c. 1960 by W. N. H. HARDING, and preserved
with the bequest of his collection of song-books at the Bodleian Library,
Oxford. This should certainly be published. See also: Claude SIMPSON.
DEAN-SMITH, Margaret. 1954. A Guide to English Folk Song Collections,
1822-1952. Liverpool. Index-guide to contents of 19th-20th century
collections; valuable, but omits all sea-chanties, etc., with a few notes on
the "erotic lingua franca of the folk."
Death Rattlers. (Old American Ballads.) 1951. Korea: Marine Air
Squadron VMP-323 "Death Rattlers." (1) 41 f., lg.4to, mimeographed. (Copies:
Kinsey-ISR; G. Legman.) Page 11 not present in copies seen. Reprinted c.
1960 secretly [Bloomington, Indiana], mimeographed from typewriting
entirely in capital letters, except p. 36. Compare: Devilcats; GETZ;
and STARR.
DE BOCCARD, Enrico. 1971. Il Processo di Sculacciabuchi e
Ifigonia. Roma: Edizioni Homerus. On modern students' bawdy parodies;
compare CASTELLI; and Il Libretto Rosso. The oldest such erotic mock
law case known (bound with the unique Toscanini-Nordmann illustrated copy of
Aretino's Sonetti lussuriosi, 1527? and with phallophoric mock-seal)
is the Processus contra ser Catium Vinculum, printed in Italy about
1530, discussed and attributed to the macaronic poet Teófilo FOLENGO, in G.
Legman (1964), The Horn Book, p. 209. Compare also the late-medieval
Aresta Amorum compiled by MARTIAL d'Auvergne, and the mock-legal
Formulaire fort recréatif de tous contracts (1593) by "Bredin-le-Cocu"
[Benoît COURT du Troncy], Paris; handsomely reprinted 1958, Monte Carlo:
Solar; and many later facetious procès and patentes (diplomas)
printed in French as chapbooks, and nowadays in English and other languages
as "xeroxlore."
DEBRAUX, Emile. See Anthologie erotique.
Decamerino: Rime baciate, suonata e sgravate, di Ignoti del XIX e XX
secólo. c. 1965. La Spezia [Roma?]. Compare: CORSO; also BRIVIO; and
CASTELLI.
DELEURME, Gastón, and "Charles BRÉMOND" [pseud.: Édouard RAMOND].
c. 1930. Encore des Histoires de Commis-Voyageurs et de Table
d'Hôte. Paris: Bibliothèque du Bon Vivant, Collection Quignon. 188 pp.,
12mo. (Copies: Ohio State University Library, French Jestbook Collection; G.
Legman.) Obscœna, erotic spoonerisms, verse, etc., pp. 129-153; erotic
folksongs as "Chansons et rimes gauloises d'hier et d'aujourdhui," pp.
153-188. On the curious history of the pseudonymous compiler Ramond, see G,
LEGMAN, The Horn Book, pp. 482-484.
DE SOLA PINTO, Vivian. See: PINTO.
Devilcats Songs. 1953? Yellow Sea, off Sasebo, Japan: Marine Air
Squadron VMF-212 "Devilcats," aboard aircraft carrier "Rendova Bay,"
56 f., 4to, mimeographed. (Copy: G. Legman. Xerox reissue with typewritten
annotations by Nancy EVANS, including addition of similar college songs as
submitted by her to folksong class of Ed Kahn, University of California, Los
Angeles, 1960.) Compare: Death Rattlers.
"DE WITT, Hugh" [pseud.]. 1970. Bawdy Barrack-room
Ballads. London: Tandem. 16mo. Texts largely faked; compare BROPHY.
Compiler's name is believed to be a pun on "You Do It."
The Diary of a French Stenographer. 1929. [Detroit, Mich.:
McClurg.] 54 pp.; 5 photographic plates, 12mo. Title page is surrounded with
fleurs-de-lis. Erotic storiette in verse, possibly written by the publisher,
McCLURG; actually a folk-manual of sex technique, told in the character of a
girl (who is not French except in the title). Circulates in United States in
typewritten and mimeographed versions since c. 1920, with various
other titles as The Adventures of a Young Stenographer, etc. Compare:
The Bride's Confession; Adam and Eve; and A Private Interview.
DICK, James C. 1903. The Songs of Robert Burns. London. Reprinted
1966?, Hatboro, Penn.: Folklore Associates. See: Merry Muses of
Caledonia.
Dirt: An Exegesis. c. 1965. (at head: An Introductory
Collection of Real Folk and Traditional Songs) [Los Angeles: UCLA Co-Op
House.] 22 pp., 4to, mimeographed. (Copy: G. Legman.) Curiously violent and
aggressive bawdy students' song collection. Compare: Aleister CROWLEY;
Cythera's Hymnal; and Songs of Sadism and Lust.
"DODSON, Victor" [pseud.]. 1969. The World's Dirtiest
Jokes. Edited and compiled by Victor Dodson [pseud. of
John NEWBERN ("Richard Rodman"), and Peggy ("Goose Reardon") RODEBAUGH]. Los
Angeles: Medco Books [Sherbourne Press]. 222 pp., 12mo. Miscellany of prose
and verse obscœna, in part reprinted from Newbern's Sex to Sexty
magazines (Arlington, Texas), q.v.
DOERFLINGER, William M. 1951. Shantymen and Shantyboys. New York:
Macmillan. Reprinted 1972 as: Songs of the Sailors and Lumbermen, New
York. Thoroughly expurgated in the taste of the old Non-Freedom. Compare:
HUGILL; and HOLBROOK.
DOLLARD, John. 1939. The Dozens: Dialectic of Insult. American Imago
(South Dennis, Mass.) 1:3-25. Compare: ABRAHAMS; DANCE; EDDINGTON;
JACKSON.
DOLPH, Edward A. 1929. Sound Off. New York: Cosmopolitan. Revised
edition 1942, New York. Expurgated soldiers' songs of World War I. Compare:
BROPHY and PARTRIDGE; and POSSELT.
DOMINIQUE, Jacques. 1933. Chansons gaillardes et bachiques du Quartier
Latin. Paris. (Copies: Alain Kahn-Sriber, Paris; G. Legman.) The first
collection of French students' bawdy songs openly published and giving the
editor's real name (but compare: DELEURME; and LENOIR). With a serious
introduction, noting resources of the seldom-consulted Library of the
Comédie Française, Paris. Other editions of these songs under Chansons de
Salles de Garde; and STAUB.
DONCIEUX, Georges. 1904. Romancero populaire de la France. Paris.
DORSON, Richard. MS collection of song-texts from students at Michigan
State College and Indiana University, c. 1947-60, as discussed in
Midwest Folklore (1955) 5:51-59, repositoried in Indiana University
Folklore Archives. See also: KINSEY-ISR; John LOMAX; and WILGUS, for the
two University of California Folklore Archives.
DOUGLAS, Norman. 1916. London Street Games. London. Revised
edition, 1931. Originally published, in expurgated form, in: The English
Review (November 1913). Compare: BORNEMAN; GAIGNEBET; LOWENSTEIN;
McCOSH; OPIE; TURNER; and especially SUTTON-SMITH.
________. 1928. Some Limericks. Florence: Orioli. Annotated! See:
SEBEOK.
"Dow, W. I." [pseud., i.e., "Widow"]. 1913. Anthology of Modern
Classics. "London: Nautilus Society" [U.S.]. Not seen. Compare: The
Garden of Priapus. Cited by MORSE.
"DRECKEN, Gottfried von" [pseud.] Das schmutzige Lied: Was Ist
Das? Nonexistent monograph (presumably) delivered before "Die
Gesellschaft für Muzikwissenschaft" at Baden-Baden, 1908, according to Jerry
SILVERMAN, The Dirty Songbook (1982) p. vii. Supposed to be a
lighthearted preparody of the present work.
Dregs of Drollery, or Old Poetry in its ragges. 1660. London.
(Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.) One of the few bawdy drolleries not
giving printer's or publisher's name? Compare: Merry Drollery; Mock
Songs; and Sportive Wit; also WARDROPER.
DROKE, Maxwell. See: "John H. JOHNSON."
DROZDANOWSKI, Wojciech von. 1910. Polnische Liebeslieder.
Anthropophytéia 7:352-359. Polish erotic folksongs. Compare:
BLINKIEWICZ; HNATJUK; also Folklore Polski; and Piosenki.
The Drunk's Album. 1942. New Guinea, or Goodenough Island, Papua:
Royal Australian Air Force, #75 Squadron. 11 f., folio, mimeographed. (Only
known copy: library of the late Donald Laycock, Australian War Memorial,
Canberra.) Service and bawdy Australian air force songs. All erotic words
are heroically expurgated with dots or dashes; like the
never-to-be-forgotten Captain of the H.M.S. Pinafore these Australian
air officers apparently "never never swear with a Big Big D." Compare: GETZ.
DUBOUT. See: Chansons de Salles de Garde, 1971.
The Duchess of Portsmouth's Garland. 1837. From a MS in the
Library of the Faculty of Advocates. [Edinburgh] xvi pp., sm.4to. Limited to
25 copies. (PC. 596) Edited by [James MAIDMENT]; compare Ane Pleasant
Garland. The manuscript from which these songs were printed, formerly in
the Scottish National Library, is now lost.
DUFAY, Pierre. 1926. L'Enfer des Classiques: 15e. au 18e. siècle.
Reprints.
DUNDES, Alan, ed. 1973. Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings
in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice-Hall. With excellent texts of Negro tales and "toasts." Compare:
ABRAHAMS; DANCE; JACKSON; and WEPMAN.
________and C. PAGTER. 1975. Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded:
Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire. Austin, Tex.: American
Folklore Society, Memoir Series, vol. 62. xx, 223 pp., 8vo. Reprinted 1978,
Bloomington: Indiana University Press. A second volume published later, as:
When You're Up to Your Ass In Alligators, 1987; and third
(unexpurgated) promised. Xeroxlore; only a fraction of the erotic and
scatological obscœna available in folk-transmission being included. Compare:
Cathy ORR and M. J. PRESTON; and Paul SMITH.
The Dung Heap & Cesspool Cleaners Gazette: Life & Laughter in Your
Good Old U.S. of A.: 1980. (A Decadent Decade's Greetings — from One
Dirty Old Romantic to Another.) 1980. MS, San Francisco, Calif. 24 f., 4to,
photocopy issue from typewriting. (Copy: G. Legman.) Collection of faddishly
ungallant and purposely nauseating jokes and verse "in guaranteed bad
taste," sent by a friend who requests that he remain nameless. Compare:
"Toshka BARPH"; and The Slime Sheet; also LEGMAN, The New
Limerick, section "The Mask of Humor."
D'URFEY, Thomas. See: Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719-1720.
EBSWORTH, J. Woodfall. See: Bagford Ballads: Choyce Drollery;
Roxburghe Ballads.
EDDINGTON, Neil A. 1965. Genital Superiority in Oakland [California]
Negro Folklore: A Theme. Papers of the Kroeber Anthropological Society
(Fall 1965) No. 33; reprinted in Alan Dundes, ed. Mother Wit from the
Laughing Barrel (1973).
________. 1973. The Urban Plantation: The Ethnography of an Oral
Tradition in a Negro Community. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University
Microfilms/Xerox. 1967 Ph.D. dissertation at University of California at
Berkeley. Compare: ABRAHAMS; DANCE; FOSTER; KOCHMAN.
EDWARDS, Ron. 1973. Australian Bawdy Ballads. Holloway Beach,
Australia: Rams Skull Press. Mimeographed. (Copy: G. Legman.) Bawdy
materials not appearing in Edwards's Australian Folk Songs (1972 Rams
Skull Press), The Overlander Songbook (1971 Adelaide) and The Big
Book of Australian Folk Song (1976). Compare: MEREDITH; and Brad TATE;
also LAYCOCK, and Snatches & Lays.
EGLIS, Arsène. 1958. Sex in Folksongs. Sexology (New York,
November 1958), pp. 246-249. Compare: NIEMOELLER; SPAETH; and URDANG.
"ELGART, J. M." [pseud.]. 1951. Over Sexteen. New
York. With sequels, More Over Sexteen (1953), and several others
similar, all playing on "Sexteen" pun. (Compare: Sex to Sexty.)
Semibawdy humor, cartoons, and verse. Compare: BAKER; and Jest on Sex.
ELIOT, Th. S. "King Bolo." MS bawdy poems circulated by Eliot in
the 1910s and '20s among his friends, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken (among whose
papers the entire King Bolo or King Bungo set is preserved),
and Wyndham Lewis, who stated he could not then print Eliot's similar poem
"Bullshit," "because the 1914-15 public [was] not ready for rhymes in
uck, unt, and ugger." Unpublished, except partially in Eliot's
Letters. Compare: AUDEN; FICKE; UPDIKE. "King Bolo" set anti-Negro. See
further: LEGMAN, For Students, 1949.
ELLINGTON, Richard, and Dave VAN RONK. The Bosses' Songbook: Songs to
stifle the flames of discontent. 1959. A Collection of modern political
songs of satire. 2d edition. New York. 36 pp., 8vo, from typewriting.
Compare: Unexpurgated; and HILLE, The People's Song Book,
1948.
EMMONS, Earl. See in: Rowdy Rhymes.
ENEVIG, Anders. 1980. Lokumsdigte og Retiradenvers: Graffiti —
nâr det er vœrst. Odense, Denmark: Privately Printed. 60 pp., 12mo.
Danish graffiti, scatology, and verse.
L'Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale. 1913. Par Guillaume
APOLLINAIRE, Fernand FLEURET, and Louis PERCEAU. Paris: Mercure de France.
Reprinted 1919, Paris; and Genève 1970: Slatkine. Note: Much enlarged,
listing holdings of the Bibliothèque Nationale's reserved collection through
1968, in Pascal PIA: Les Livres de l'Enfer (1978, Paris: Coulet &
Faure) 1 vol. in 2, with numerical shelf-list of Enfer Nos. 1-1730,
at pp. 751-792. Compare: The Private Case for parallel holdings of
the British Museum Library.
Erotopægnion, sive Priapeia veterum et recentiorum. Veneri jocosœ
sacrum. 1798. Paris: Patris. 188 pp. and 2 plates, 8vo. Edited by Fr.-J.
NOËL. (PC. 672; Enfer 639; New York Academy of Medicine Library,
S102a.) Noël also issued the first scholarly edition of Poggio's Facetiœ,
1797. Compare: Priapeia; MARTIAL; and VORBERG.
Eskimo Nell. See: The Ballad of Eskimo Nell, and compare:
Luka Mudishchev.
The Eternal Eve: from a Mid-Victorian Manuscript, "The Duchess."
1941. [Cleveland? A. R. Morse?] Unexpurgated edition, modernized and
revised. Printed for Private Distribution. 258 pp. Recent dysphemistic
parodies. "The Duchess" is nonexistent. Compare: CROWLEY; Cythera's
Hymnal; and Dirt: An Exegesis.
EVANS, David. 1977. The Toast in Context. Journal of American Folklore
90:129-148.
EVANS, Nancy. See: Devilcats Songs.
FACETIA Americana. c. 1925. 8vo. (Copy: Denver Public Library,
Eugene Field Collection) Contains erotic verse by Eugene Field, and others.
Compare: Immortalia; and The Stag Party.
Facetiœ: Musarum Deliciœ, The Muses Recreation. 1656. Sir John
MENNIS and Dr. James SMITH, eds. London. Reprint 1817 edited by Edward DU
BOIS, London. Drollery reprint; see further under Musarum Deliciœ,
ed. 1872.
FAGAN, J. S. 1966. Folklore and the Modern Sailor. [Bloomington,
Indiana] MS, 50 f., 4to. (MS repositoried in Indiana University Folklore
Archive; copy G. Legman.) Tough-talking and authentic, from experience
aboard the USS Douglas H. Fox. Covers all types of folklore, mostly
violent and/or erotic. Bawdy sailors' songs, f. 42-50. Compare: "Dave E.
JONES."
FARMER, John Stephen. 1897. Merry Songs and Ballads, prior to the year
A.D. 1800. National Ballad and Song. Privately Printed for
Subscribers Only. London: Gibbings? 5 vols., sq.4to. (Volume I issued
separately, dated 1895.) Reprinted 1964, New York: Cooper Square Publishers,
with Introduction by G. Legman concerning Farmer's public career as slang
philologist and occultist. On his secret career as erotica hack-writer to
Charles Carrington in Paris, see: G. Legman, Introduction to The Private
Case, compiled by Patrick J. KEARNEY (London, 1981), pp. 43-45. Compare:
PINTO and RODWAY; Thomas R. SMITH; and WARDROPER.
Father Rugby Reveals. See: Rugger Hugger Presents . . .
FAUSET, Arthur H. 1931. Folklore from Nova Scotia. New York:
Stechert. (American Folklore Society, Memoir Series, vol. 24.) The first
publicly issued folklore collection in 20th century in English including
erotic songs and tales without expurgation. Compare: Louis W. CHAPPELL;
GETZ; LOGSDON; MASTERSON; and MacCOLL and SEEGER, Travellers' Songs.
[FEINHALS, Josef. pseud.] 1939. Non Olet, oder Die
heiteren Tischgespräche des Collofino über den Orbis Cacatus. Köln:
Privatdruck. 1104 pp., lg.8vo. (N.Y. Public Library, Arents Tobacco
Collect.) Rare eccentric compilation combining scatology and smoking, with
verse and songs passim.
FELDEGG, Ferdinand. 1924. Erotische Lieder und Dialoge. Wien:
Frisch. (PC. 703) Art poetry.
FERRIS, William R. 1969. Black Folklore from the Mississippi Delta.
A Dissertation in Folklore and Folklife. Philadelphia, 1969. xc, 518 f.,
4to, offset from typewriting. Ph.D. dissertation. Folklore Department,
University of Pennsylvania. Published form as Blues from the Delta
(abridged edition London, 1970; and complete edition, New York: Doubleday,
1978), a significant color-change. Includes many bawdy songs and recitation
texts, especially the session at Leland, Mississippi, 1968, f. 119-124 and
following (New York edition, pp. 139-152), with the performers' social and
subjective views on their own material. Remarkably full classified
bibliography, in thesis form only; updated but reduced to 10 pages in
New York edition.
The Festival of Anacreon. See: Charles MORRIS.
The Festival of Love, or A Collection of Cytherean Poems. 1770.
"Procured and selected by G----e Ρ___e [i.e., Prince George]." London: M.
Smith. xi, 443 pp., 12mo. (Copies: PC. 710: 6th edition; Cambridge
University Library Arcana: 4th edition)
The Festival of the Passions, or Voluptuous Miscellany. 1828. By
Philo Cunnus. "Constantinople" [London: George Cannon]. 2 vols. 8vo.
Reprinted 1863, "Glenfucket" [London: Andrew White]. (PC. 711, vol. 2 only.)
Contains The Bride's Confession, q.v.
FIALKA, Vaclav. 1909. Czechische erotische und skatologische Volklieder.
Anthropophytéia 6:369-383. Czech erotic ballads with German
translation. Compare: KOSTIÁL.
[FICKE, Arthur Davison.] c. 1925. The Hell of the Good: A Theological
Epic in Six Books, by Édouard de VERB [pseud.]. Twenty-two Copies
Privately Printed. Not to be Sold. (59) pp., sm.4to. (Copies: Brown
University Library; Kinsey-ISR.) Satirical erotic poem. Bk. 3, "The Book of
the Thousand Sacred Names," pp. 29—34 of particular interest for erotic
slang vocabulary. Author's pseudonym alludes to the German "verb,"ficken,
to fuck. Quoted extensively in Introduction by G. Legman to John S.
Farmer and Wm. E. Henley, Dictionary of Slang & Its Analogues
(revised vol. 1, New Hyde Park, N.Y., 1966) pp. lxix-lxxii. Compare: AUDEN;
ELIOT; MARQUIS; and PUTNAM.
FIDDLE, Seymour. February 1972. Toasts: Images of a Victim Society.
New York: Exodus House. iv, 72 pp., sm.4to, offset from typewriting.
(Copies: Dennis Wepman; G. Legman.) Negro narrative "toasts," mainly erotic.
See: ABRAHAMS; DANCE; EDDINGTON; JACKSON; and WEPMAN.
FIELD, Eugene. See: The Stag Party; also Facetia Americana;
and Immortalia.
FIFE, Austin, and Alta S. 1969. Cowboy and Western Songs: A
Comprehensive Anthology. New York: Clarkson Potter, Inc. The best
collection and study, but expurgated. Compare: LINGENFELTER; LOGSDON
(especially); and THORP.
Fifth Line Society: Transactions, etc. 1953-1985 ff. [Chicago] For
a discussion and full listing of publications (to 1975 only) of this
Limerick society, see G. LEGMAN, The New Limerick (More Limericks),
New York, 1977, "Bibliography," pp. 569-571.
The Fighter Pilots Hymn Book. See: William J. STARR.
Les Filles de Loth, et autres poèmes erotiques, recueillies par "le
Vidame de BOZEGY." 1933. [pseud.: Edmond Dardenne BERNARD]. "A
Sodome: Imprimerie de la Genèse. " Paris: Guibal? for Bernard. (Copies:
Alain Kahn-Sriber, Paris; G. Legman.) Erotic art-and folk-poems, in
supplement to the same editor's Les Chants du Quartier Latin, and
Trois Orfèvres à la Saint-Éloi. Not to be confused with following.
Les Filles de Loth: Légende Biblique. 1903. "Priapeville:
Imprimerie galante, An III du XXe siècle foutatif." [Paris: Jean Fort?] 12
pp., 12mo. Pamphlet cited by Pascal PIA, Les Livres de l'Enfer, col.
470, containing erotic poems ascribed to Alfred de Musset (?), Jules Choux,
and "D.O." The hack writer-editor for this secret "Imprimerie galante" was
(or were) Alphonse Gallais [pseud.?], usually signing
anagrammatically "A. S. Lagail," and the naturalist poet René GHIL, signing
"Grimaudin d'Échara," both being specialists in the ultra-decadent. (See:
PC. 637, and 775-779.)
FINK, P. 1903. Das Weib im französische Volksliede. Zürich.
The First Boke of Fowle Ayres. 1944. Sydney, Australia. Not seen.
Cited in Snatches & Lays, 1962.
First-Born. c. 1927. Colophon: Fifty-one copies printed privately
at the Prelum Otii Septimani. Super Collem Vigilem (Lookout Hill?) United
States. 7 pp., 12mo. (Copy: Brown University Library.) Erotic art-poem,
apparently by a woman. Compare (for the typography): The Boastful Yak,
by "Henri Nicolai."
FISH, Lydia M. 1989. General Edward G. Lansdale, and the Folksongs of
Americans in the Vietnam War. Journal of American Folklore
102:390-411. Includes several mildly bawdy air force songs collected by
LANSDALE. Compare: BURKE; and GETZ.
The Flea. 1869. By You [Thomas O'KANE?] New York. 24 pp., 16mo. On
the curious erotic "flea"-literature, see Leo Koszella, Erotische
Flöhzirkus, c. 1925.
Les Fleurs du Mâle. 1935-38. Bruxelles. 2 vols., 4to. Vol. 2 is
Supplement, generally missing. (Copy: G. Legman.) Rare Belgian collection of
students' Chansons de Salle de Garde, q.v., with a few items in
Flemish. Title is an erotic pun on Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal.
Compare following.
________. c. 1955. Same title: Les Fleurs du Mâle. [Genève:
Sack.] Illustrations de Jean DRATZ. Not identical with the preceding.
Flushed! The W.C. Companion. 1963. New York: Kanrom, Inc.
FOHN, Julius. 1905. Magyarische Reigentanzlieder aus der Grosswardeiner
Gegend. Anthropophytéia 2:125-153. Erotic dance-songs.
________. 1906. Magyarische Erotik: Volksreime aus dem Grosswardeiner . .
. Komitate. Anthropophytéia 3:54-60. Hungarian erotic folksongs, with
German translation. See also: HNATJUK, Parallelen; and KESZTHELY.
Folklore de la France. 1898. Kryptádia 5:274—400. Erotic
folksongs, arranged by dialect of origin, with French translation, at pp.
297-307, 313-316, 324-326, 347-348, 351-353, 359-369 (especially), and
393—397. This field collection is attributed to the two main French editors
of Kryptádia, Gaston PARIS and Eugène ROLLAND. See their earlier and
equally important "Gai Chansonnier Français" in same, 1886.
Folklore de la Grande Russie, 1898. Kryptádia 5:183-214.
Russian erotic malediction-rhymes, with French translation, at pp. 191-200,
and 213. Collection attributed to Friedrich S. KRAUSS, q.v. See also:
STERN-SZANA; Chansons Russes; Luka Mudishchev; and Mejdu Druziami.
Folklore de l'Ukraine: Chansons lyriques. 1898 and 1902.
Kryptádia 5:23-131; and 8:317-320; with translations in French pp.
329-348. Presumably edited by Th. VOLKOV, in supplement to his 1891-92 Rites
et usages nuptiaux en Ukraine. Anthropologie 2-3. Note here the
"Chansons nuptiales, " 5:44-129, are mostly 4-line chastushki, on
which see further: KABRONSKY; and RASKIN; also HNATJUK.
Folklore Polski: Piosenki (Folklore Polonais: Chansons). 1886 and
1888. Kryptádia 3:304-337; also 4:8-75; and (1898) vol. 5:215-264
(French translations, pp. 238-264). Polish erotic folksongs. The final
dance-song duet, "Rozmowa milosna (Entretien amoureux entre une fille et un
garçon)," vol. 5:233-234, 259-260, is a very close congener or source of the
American "BOLLOCKY BILL THE SAILOR," including dialogue method of singing
"mi-chanté, mi-parlé," the seduced girl's reproaches to her lover "chanté
sur un air mélancolique," while his replies are all insults (spoken) "sur
l'air fringant de la danse." There is another, less close Polish version in
Kryptádia (1901) 7:65-67. See also: "Piosenki Polskie," in same
(1898) 3:304-337; and HNATJUK, "Polnische."
Folk Poems and Ballads. See: A. Reynolds MORSE.
Folly in Print, or, A Book of Rhymes. 1667. London. Drollery
collection. Compare: Mock Songs.
Forbidden Fruit: A Collection of Popular Tales. c. 1890. By
Popular Authors, including Meitor, Walker, Cæsar, Cowper, Turnor, Ryder,
Wyper, Lover, Howitt, Burns. Also the Expurgated [sic] Poems
of Robert Burns, known as Burns's Merry Muses. Copied from authentic
MS. The whole forming the most unique collection on an all-absorbing topic
ever issued. Not for sale. (at head: Not for Maids, Ministers, or
Striplings.) Glasgow? 2 pts. in 1 vol., 8vo. (Unique copy: Murison Burns
Collection, Dunfermline Public Library; microfilm, School of Scottish
Studies, Edinburgh.) Part I (82 pp.) is a miscellany of erotic prose and
verse. The unique copy, at Dunfermline, is fitted with a brass lock, in
operating condition, set into the front edge of the binding. Erroneously
dated "c. 1875" in G. Legman, The Horn Book, pp. 205-206; but
a reference in the volume to the Parnell O'Shea scandal of 1890 shows the
true date. Note: Not to be confused with an erotic novel of incest,
Forbidden Fruit (and More Forbidden Fruit): Luscious and Exciting
Story of a Boy. 1898-1901. Paris: Carrington, signed "J. F. Printer,"
both of which may be the work of John S. FARMER, q.v.
FOSTER, Herbert L. 1974. Ribbin', Jivin', and Playin' the Dozens.
Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Press. Negro erotic and aggressive recitations.
Compare: ABRAHAMS; DANCE; EDDINGTON; JACKSON: LABOV; and YANKAH for African
congeners.
The Foundling Hospital for Wit. 1743-49. Edited by Sir Charles
HANBURY-WILLIAMS. London. 7 pts., 8vo.
[FOUREST, Georges]. 1920. Douze épigrammes plaisantes imitées de P.-V.
MARTIAL, chevalier romain, par Un Humaniste facétieux.
"Phalopolis-en-Lanternois: Flavius Niger, 69 rue du Satyre-Farfelu" [Paris:
La Connaissance/René-Louis Doyon], 14 f., 12mo. (See: PIA, Les Livres de
l'Enfer, col. 361.)
Les Foutaizes de Jéricho. 1740. "A Constantinople.&
