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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." 102 pp., 16mo.
(Enfer 645) Reprinted 1863 with same false imprint, Bruxelles: Jules
Gay, 72 pp., 12mo. (Enfer 646-647; and 1283, copy with
illustrations.) Includes most of the erotic poems of Alexis PIRÓN, q.v.
Les Fouteries chantantes, ou Les Recréations priapiques des
Aristocrates en vie (vit). "A Couillardinos . . . au Vit couronné."
1791. 48 pp., 12mo, with 8 plates of portraits made up of erotic personages
and organs. (Enfer 648) Violent and aggressively obscene
anti-Royalist songs, an interesting example of the interchangeableness of
erotic and economic revolution.
FOWKE, Edith. 1963. Bawdy Ballads in Print, Record and Tradition. Sing
and String Summer:3-9. The first article ever published by a woman on
this subject.
________. 1965. Traditional Singers and Songs from Ontario.
Hatboro, Penn.: Folklore Associates. Supplemented by following item, but
includes bawdy songs without expurgation, the first such work openly edited
by a woman. But compare: Unexpurgated, CRAILSHEIM; KOPP; Covent
Garden Drolery; Mum; and Rayna GREEN.
________. 1966. A Sampling of Bawdy Ballads from Ontario. In Folklore
and Society, Bruce Jackson, ed., pp. 45-61. Hatboro, Penn.: Folklore
Associates. Supplement to preceding.
Fox Club. 1938? Harvard MS bawdy verse album. See: Sweet
Violets.
FOXON, David. 1967. Burlesque and Satirical English Poetic Literature
of the later 18th century. Ox ford University Press. Of great value;
bibliography supplementing work on first half of century by Richmond BOND.
(See also: CASE, here.) Issued with title change.
FRIEDMAN, Victor A. 1984. Vocabulary Elements in Early Macedonian
Lexicons. Maledicta 7:164—166. Gives earliest known, 16th century,
Macedonian bawdy song. Compare: KOUKOULÈS.
The Frisky Muse. 1749. By Rigdum Funidos [pseud.],
"Ballad Master in Ordinary and Composer Extraordinary." London: For the
Author. 56 pp., 8vo. (British Museum Library)
The Frisky Songster. c. 1770. London, or Dublin. (Reprint copies:
[1776?] Bodleian, W. N. H. Harding Collection; Kinsey-ISR: 1802.) The
essential erotic folksong collection in English of the late 18th century.
(Compare: The Honest Fellow, 1790 and The New Frisky Songster,
1794.) On the legal condemnations of this work see: G. Chitty, A
Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law (1826 2d edition) vol. 2:42-43.
From Bed to Verse: An unabashed anthology . . . collected with
diligence and industry by divers idle hands for the amusement and
delectation of some members of the Army of Occupation in Germany, and their
friends. 1945. Wiesbaden, Germany: Very Privately Printed. 20 pp., 12mo.
(Yale University Library, Zeta.) [Kenneth S. GINIGER and Talbot
PATRICK, eds.]. Mostly limericks reprinted from Norman Douglas's Some
Limericks (1928).
[FRY, John]. 1814. Pieces of Ancient Poetry. Bristol. From
unpublished manuscripts and scarce books. (New York Public Library) Private
publication; includes many rare pieces, in particular a topical bawdy song
on the Overbury Case and the Duchess of Essex, to the tune of "Whoope, do me
no harm, good man," not printed elsewhere. (Note: Not to be confused with
Joseph Ritson's Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry, from authentic
manuscripts and old printed copies, 1791; reprinted 1833.) Compare: Jyl
of Brentford's Testament; MAIDMENT; and UTTERSON.
FRYER, Peter. 1963. Mrs. Grundy. Studies in prudery. London.
Fuckup. See: Antarctic Fuckup.
Full Dress Suits and Plenty of Whores. 1928. [Edited by Hilaire
HILER, with introductory "Apology" by Robert Carlton ("Bob") BROWN.] MS,
Paris. (Transcript copy: G. Legman.) Brief collection of American and
British bawdy folksongs; intended publication did not ensue owing to
sub-rosa issue of T. R. Smith's Immortalia in New York, 1927. The
title represents the paradisiacal dream of gangsters and playboys of the
period. Compare: The Slime Sheet.
FURNIVALL, Frederick J. See: Jyl of Brentford's Testament; and
Percy Folio Manuscript.
Futilitates: Beiträge etc. See: BLÜMML and POLSTERER.
GAI (Le) Chansonnier français. 1886. [Edited by Gaston PARIS and
Eugène ROLLAND] Kryptádia (Heilbronn) 3:1-146. First scientific
collection of erotic folksongs in any language, giving both tunes and
parallel texts from 16th-century chapbooks and modern field-collected
versions. See also: "Folklore de la France." Pâris's monograph has
been the inspiration of the present work. Compare: AMRAIN; ANGOT; SCHWOB;
and Chansons de Salles de Garde.
GAIGNEBET, Claude. 1977. Le Folklore obscène des Enfants. Paris:
Maisonneuve & Larose. Masterly discussion. Compare: later works by this
author; also BORNEMAN; DOUGLAS; LOWENSTEIN; McCOSH; SUTTON-SMITH; TURNER;
and Martha WOLFENSTEIN, Children's Humor (1954).
Gamo-Tragouda (Fuck-Songs). 1981. Athens. See: KOUKOULÈS; and
LELEGOS.
The Garden of Priapus. c. 1935. Edited by Méntula [pseud.]
"The Dorian Club, 1919" New York: Samuel Roth? or the Millers. See: "W.
I. Dow." Cited by MORSE, q.v.
GARDINER, George. See: PURSLOW; and REEVES.
GATTY, Ivor. 1940. The Old Tup and his Ritual. Journal of English Folk
Dance & Song Society 5:23-30. On the classic bawdy ballad, "The Darby
Ram."
Gaudeamus Igitur. 1976. (Epigrafi di Laurea, o Papiri dal MDCCXXXI
(al 1975.). Padova. 144 pp., sq.folio. (Copies: Giuliano Averna,
Lido-Venice; G. Legman.) Italian student centenary folk-art book, of
University of Padua "Feriæ Matricularum" of graduates in political science,
edited by Manlio MORGAGNI and M. Luigi POLI. A typographical explosion of
mock-academic erotic cartoons, ithyphallic graffiti, and other crude student
obscœna, particularly of the two preceding decades, with verse throughout: a
collection made possible only by pooling the memorabilia of many alumni.
Compare: BRIVIO; CASTELLI (his valuable introduction on Go-Hard students);
and especially the amateur-illustrated French "Chansons de Salles de Garde"
collections at Bréviaire du Carabin and Bréviaire '70; Monôme;
as well as the more ancient Carmina prose et rithmi, c. 1505.
Les Gaudrioles du XIXe siècle: Chansons joyeuses. 1866. "Bâle:
Bertal" Bruxelles: Jules Gay. 2 vols.: 258 and 256 pp., 16mo. (PC. 783;
Enfer 661-662.) Not entirely songs, but an anthology of erotic art
poetry, in continuation of POULET-MALASSIS'S Le Parnasse (et
Nouveau Parnasse) Satyrique du XIXe. siècle, q.v. Also issued as
Chansons joyeuses du XIXe siècle.
GAUTIER, Théophile. 1873. Poésies de Th. Gautier qui ne figureront pas
dans ses œuvres. "France: Imprimerie particulière" Paris?
Poulet-Malassis. ii, 84 pp. and plates, 8vo. (PC. 787-788; Bibliothèque
Nationale, Réserve Ye.475.) Various piratical and other reprints, the
best edited by René Jasinski, 1935, as Poésies Libertines, Paris:
René Bonnel (Enfer 1153; G. Legman.) Also published with Gautier's
erotic Lettre à la Présidente (Mme. Sabatier, the goddess of his
orgy-group) as: Obscenia 1907. "Bruxelles" [Paris: J. Chevrel] with
illustrations in the style of Rops by "Van Troizem" [Martin Van Maële], (PC.
791; G. Legman); and as Gautier's Lettres etc. edited by Louis
Perceau, 1927; and P. Pia, 1960. Erotic poems by the great French romantic,
of which at least one has become a folk-item among students, "De Profundis
morpionibus" (The Death of the Crab-Louse). Compare: Parnasse Satyrique;
and MALRAUX.
GETZ, Col. Charles Wm. 1981-86. The Wild Blue Yonder: Songs of the Air
Force. Redwood Press, Box 412, Burlingame, Calif., a division of Syntax
Associates, Phoenix, Ariz. Vol. I. (Vol. II: Stag Bar Edition.) 2 vols.,
4to. The bawdy songs are given only in Vol. II, "Stag Bar Edition." By far
the most complete of the Air Force song compilations. Compare: BENTLY
(Stovepipe Serenade); BURKE; HOPKINS; STARR; Tuso; and WALLRICH. Note:
Getz's collection is based on over 40 privately mimeographed service
collections, all rare, listed in his vol. II: p. 2, mostly of World War II
and since.
The Giblet Pye. "Shamborough:John Knox" [Scotland or England,
c. 1806]. (Unique copy: Bodleian, W. N. H. Harding Collection.) In part
a reprint of the Merry Muses of Caledonia, q.v.
GILBERT, Paul F. 1963. Jody Calls, Cadence Calls, and Marching Songs
[at Georgia Air Force Base, California, 1962.] Austin, Tex. 9 f., 4to,
hektographed. Paper submitted to folklore course of Roger Abrahams. This is
supplemented by a further fascicule of 7 f., headed Jody Calls,
collected 1963 by Paul CAMERON for the same course. (Copies: R. Abrahams; G.
Legman.)
GILCHRIST, Anne G. 1938. Captain Kidd/Samuel Hall. Journal of English
Folk Dance & Song Society 3:167-170. Splendid tracing of the song's
origins and transmutations, somewhat enlarged by Bertrand BRONSON 1942 as
"Samuel Hall's Family Tree." Western Folklore (California Folklore
Quarterly) 1:47-64, reprinted in his 1969 The Ballad as Song
(University of California Press); and further derivatively by George P.
JACKSON in Southern Folklore Quarterly (1953).
GINSBERG, Allen. 1977. Journals '50-'60. New York: Grove Press.
With 3-page "Anthology of English Folk Songs," pp. 277-279, comprising five
bawdy songs collected from an English girl in Jerusalem, 1961. Instant
folklore "anthologies."
GNATJUK, Volodymyr. See: HNATJUK.
GODELÜCK, William. 1906. Erotische und skatologische Kinder-und
Jugendreime. Anthropophytéia 3:218—243. Alsatian-German children's
rhymes. Compare: BORNEMAN.
Les Goguettes: Chansonnier du bon vieux temps. 1835. Paris: Les
Marchands de nouveautés. 248 pp., 32do. (PC. 815) Compare: Le Chansonnier
du Bordel.
GÖKE, H. See: M. KROTUS, pseud.
The Golden Convolvulus. 1965. Arthur MOYSE, ed. Blackburn,
Lancashire: Screeches Publications. 40 pp., 4to, mimeographed. Poetry of
revolt, children's rhymes and graffiti. Banned from the mails by the British
postal authorities for a bawdy music-hall song in the limerick metre, "Rose
Ormesby-Gore" (reprinted in Legman, New Limerick 2: nos. 1846-1847).
Das Goldene Buch, gereimter Erotik. 1919. München: Privatdruck.
Not to be confused with Das Goldene Buch der Liebe (Wien, 1908) by
"L. van der Weck-Erlen" [Dr. Josef WECKERLE], a sex-technique manual giving
531 coital positions, of which a complete English translation has been
published.
GOLDSTEIN, Kenneth S. 1960. Buchan Bawdry: Scottish Highland Folklore.
MS, Strichen, Aber-deenshire. Unpaginated (references by date of
collecting), 4to. (Copies: Kinsey-ISR; Kenneth Goldstein.) Valuable and
courageous field-collection; remains unpublished apparently because tunes
were not collected with the texts. Compare: Hamish HENDERSON; and Lewis
JONES MS.
________. 1967. Bowdlerization and Expurgation: Academic and Folk.
Journal of American Folklore 80:374-386. Continuation of, and reply to,
the discussion of academic bowdlerization of collected folksongs in G.
Legman (1964), The Horn Book pp. 336-426, "The Bawdy Song: In Fact
and In Print." See also note on GOLDSTONE; and GUTHRIE, below.
GOLDSTONE, Sherle. 1934. Unprinted College Songs. MS, Albany, New
York State College for Teachers. Term paper submitted to Harold W. Thompson,
author of Body, Boots and Britches (1939), with some concern by
Goldstone as to whether he would be shocked. (Copy: New York State
Historical Association, Cooperstown, N. Y., File: H.W.T. 01.363.) This is
the first attempted scholarly collection of bawdy students' songs, except
the MS collections of GORDON, and LEGMAN; and compare REUSS. Goldstone notes
concerning the rather mild songs she collected that the college "men who
were finally induced to sing them, very respectfully sang something like
'da-dadely-da' when the word was such that they believed no nice girl should
hear." Later folksong collectors such as Edith Fowke, Ellen Stekert, Vance
Randolph, and Kenneth Goldstein have noted encountering similar
recalcitrance, the men sometimes refusing to sing the bawdy part of their
repertory at all. (See: STOLZ.)
GOODWIN, Harold L. 1943. Memorandum. Noumea, New Caledonia: 1st
Marine Raider Battalion. 7 f., folio, photostatted from typewriting.
(Copies: LC Folksong Archive; G. Legman.) Transcript of U.S. Marine songs
from field-recording.
GORDON, Robert W. [Manuscript collections as follows:] Gordon MS:
3858 numbered letters and their transcripts containing song texts and
requests sent to Gordon (and before him to Robert FROTHINGHAM, 1922-23) as
editor of "Old Songs That Men Have Sung" column in Adventure Magazine
(New York, 1923-29), including other songs collected by Gordon dated 1911 to
1932. Gordon California MS: About 400 songs collected by Gordon in
Berkeley, Calif 1922-23. Similar groups, of 555 songs collected in Darien,
Georgia, 1926-28; also 374 collected in North Carolina, 1925; and a group of
33 songs collected by R. M. DAVIDS, Woodmere, Florida, 1924. "Inferno"
Collection: (Vulgar Collection: Reel 8.) MS of the 236 erotic song texts
included in all the above, as grouped by Gordon. (Compare: Bishop PERCY.)
Note: The originals and typescript copies of all the above, including about
700 sound-recordings, are repositoried principally in the Robert Winslow
Gordon Collection of American Folksong, R. V. Mills Archive of Northwest
Folklore, University Library, University of Oregon, at Eugene; and in
overlapping part in the Library of Congress, Music Division, Archive of
Folksong, at Washington, D.C., which was instituted by Gordon, but which he
left in anger (with most of his materials) on being replaced suddenly. See:
Melbert B. CARY, Mademoiselle from Armentières (musical Introduction
by Gordon); Karen GRIMM, 1967, Prolegomenon to a Catalog for the Robert W.
Gordon Collection, Northwest Folklore, 2:8-10; and especially Debora
KODISH, 1978, "A National Project with Many Workers: Robert Winslow Gordon
and the Archive of American Folk Song," Quarterly Journal of the Library
of Congress 35:218—233, a splendid article with photos of Gordon
collecting "in the field" and a straightforward discussion of Gordon's
withdrawing his materials from the Archive when he was eased out of his
position as director in favor of John A. Lomax. Revised and enlarged as a
Master's thesis by Debora Kodish, 1979; published as Good Friends and Bad
Enemies, University of Illinois Press, 1986.
GOTT, Kenneth D. See: Snatches & Lays.
GRAINGER, Percy, and Rose GRAINGER. 1907. Collection of English
folksongs, sea chanties, etc. MS. Hektographed copies repositoried in
New York Public Library, Music Division and Library of Congress, Folksong
Archive. Compare: CARPENTER; Cecil SHARP; BARING-GOULD; HAMMOND; PURSLOW;
and REEVES.
GRAVES, Robert. 1927. Lars Porsena, or The Future of Swearing and
Improper Language. London. Revised as: Mrs. Fisher, or The Future of
Humour. 1928, London. Without question the worst book ever written on
humor, but contains folklore.
________. 1956. Silent as the Graves. MS, Mallorca. Brief
collection of World War I bawdy British army songs, sent "anonymously" to G.
Legman for the present research; then disowned in a letter to The Times,
London.
GREEN, Archie. 1972. Only a Miner. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, pp. 18-21, on expurgated "selection" of miners' songs published by
George G. KORSON.
_________1975. Midnight, and Other Cowboys. JEMF Quarterly
11:137-152.
GREEN, Rayna. 1976. Introduction. In Pissing In the Snow, and Other
Ozark Folktales. Vance RANDOLPH*, Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
________. 1977. Magnolias Grow in Dirt: The Bawdy Lore of Southern Women.
Southern Exposure 4:29-33. Compare: LEGMAN 1990, Introduction to
Vance RANDOLPH, "Roll Me In Your Arms" Section 4, on women's bawdry.
________. 1983. Folk Is a Four-Letter Word: Dealing with Traditional ****
in Fieldwork, Analysis, and Presentation. In Handbook of American
Folklore, Richard M. DORSON, ed. Pp. 525-532. Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Press.
GREENLEAF, Elizabeth B., and Grace Y. MANSFIELD. 1933. Ballads and Sea
Songs of Newfoundland. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Excellently researched: wholly expurgated texts. Compare: HUGILL; MACKENZIE;
and especially PEACOCK.
Gregory-Boomer-Fouff Collection. (No title; at head: "Reproduction
in all its forms is to [be] encouraged. No copyright, no classification.")
George Gregory, Lt.Cdr., USNR, Special Devices Division; Paul Boomer, Air
Marshall, Royal Australian Airforce; François Fouff, Ministère de l'Aire,
État-Majeur [pseuds.: Cornelius Van S. ROOSEVELT, Frank WOOD, Ralph
MARTINEZ, and Ralph MORK. Washington, D.C.: Navy Bureau of Aeronautics,
Special Devices Division, 1945]. Limited to 150 copies, mimeographed. 1945.
Same, 3d enlarged edition. (3), 25 f., sm.4to, mimeographed; with MS addenda
to 1959; Washington, D.C., 1966. (Copy: G. Legman.) Contents mostly
limericks. Compare: Luka Mudishchev.
Guam Air Force Songs. 1959? (No title; page i is headed:
"Warning!!!") [Guam: U.S. Air Force] ii, 35 f., 4to, mimeographed.
(Copies: Kinsey-ISR: G. Legman.) MS note gives compiler as Capt. DE MARRS,
or DE MOSO. See reprint under: KELLOGG. See also: GETZ; and STARR.
_________Same. 1963. [Bloomington, Ind., or Austin, Texas?] ii, 35 f.,
4to, hektographed in violet ink on paper watermarked "Manuscript Bond." Very
exact reprint, except that in the original of 1959 alternate lines are
indented until p. 8; whereas all lines are flush-left in the reprint. See
also: KELLOGG.
GUGITZ, Gustav. See: BLÜMML, Der Spittelberg und seine Lieder,
1924.
GUNDELFINGER, Nicholas Lebzelter. See: Carmina.
GUTHRIE, Woodrow ("Woody"). c. 1940? The Wild Oaken Tree. MS,
Brooklyn, N.Y. (Copy: Kenneth Goldstein, Philadelphia.) Small private group
of original songs on eroticism, incest, etc. Not in known oral circulation.
Title song, in praise of the "sixty-nine," printed in LAYCOCK, pp. 41—43
(from a manuscript pænes another American folklorist, p. 3). Compare:
AUDEN; CHATTERTON; ELIOT; FICKE; MARQUIS; TWAIN; PUTNAM; and especially
UPDIKE.
HADDINGTON, Thomas Hamilton, Earl of. c. 1730. Select Poems on
Several Occasions. London? Many reprints. Includes numerous erotic
tales-in-verse. Compare: HALL-STEVENSON.
HAGEN, John Milton. 1969. "Lecherous, Licentious, Lascivious Lyrics
(is NOT the Title of This Book)." South Brunswick, N.J.: A. S. Barnes.
104 pp., 8vo. Weak humorous doggerel, vaguely about sex. The intended title,
The Violent Violet, gives some idea of the richly mauve contents.
HALLIWELL, James Orchard. 1842. The Nursery Rhymes of England.
London. Enlarged 1853. Compare: KER; and OPIE. Reprinted 1970. London:
Bodley Head.
HALL-STEVENSON, John. 1762. Crazy Tales. Reprinted, London, 1894.
Also other volumes of bawdy tales-in-verse by this author. Compare:
HADDINGTON; and HEAD.
HALPERT, Herbert. 1942. The Cante-Fable in New Jersey. Journal of
American Folklore 55:133-143. Courageously unexpurgated for its period.
Compare: Cratis WILLIAMS.
HALTAUS, Carl. 1840. Liederbuch der Clara HÄTZLERIN. Aus der
Handschrift des Böhmischen Museums zu Prag. Quedlinburg und Leipzig.
Compare: Crailsheim MS at KOPP. HAMMOND, Henry, and Robert HAMMOND.
See: PURSLOW; and REEVES. HANBURY WILLIAMS, Charles. See: Foundling
Hospital for Wit. HAND, Wayland. c. 1950. Schnaderhüpfel.
Chicago. Ph.D. thesis, University of Chicago, German Department.
HANLEY, Brendan. See: DISCOGRAPHY, in progress.
"HARDE, Dick." See: Lusty Limericks & Bawdy Ballads. Harlequin Prince
Cherry top and the Good Fairy Fairfuck, or The Frig, the Fuck and the Fairy.
1879. (At head: New and Gorgeous Pantomime, entitled . . .)
"Private Reprint: Theatre Royal Olymprick" [London: Erotika Biblion Society,
Leonard Smithers], 1905. (2), 52 pp., 8vo. (Copies: PC. 878; G. Legman.) A
reprint announced, 1986. Bawdy verse playlet [by George Augustus SALA],
including many folk catches and sells. In folk transmission as The Sods'
Opera, falsely attributed to Gilbert and Sullivan, and in very decayed
form as a recitation, "The King of the Goddam Isles." Compare: Cythera's
Hymnal.
Harmonía Musarum. 1843. 8vo. Not seen. Known only through
reference in William Laird Clowes, 1885 Bibliotheca Arcana no. 516,
stating that a copy of this presumably English collection was sold at
auction in 1882.
Haroldson, John. See: The Lay of John Haroldson.
Hart, Harold Horowitz. 1970. Immortalia: Volume One (to Four).
New York: Hart Pub. Co. 4 vols., 8vo. Reprinted 1971 as: The Complete
Immortalia, New York: Hart Pub. Co. (also Bell, 1974), 475 pp., 8vo; and
1975 as: The Bawdy Bedside Reader, New York: Bell Pub. Co. Song texts
are heavily edited and rewritten. The illustrations by Lindi are charming.
Note: This is not an edition or revision of Immortalia (1927),
q.v., edited by T. R. Smith.
_________. 1971. The Bawdy and the Naughty. New York: Hart Pub.
Co. See preceding item; also Poems Lewd and Lusty.
_________. The Bawdy Bedside Reader. See preceding items.
Harvey, James Clarence. See: The Point of View.
Hätzlerin, Clara. See: Haltaus.
[Hayet, Armand]. 1934. Dictons et tirades des anciens de la voile.
Paris: Denoël. Companion volume to the following (especially its preface).
________. 1935. Chansons de la voile, "sans voiles," par
Jean-Marie Le Bihor [pseud.] "Dunkerque: Pour les Amis du Gaillard
d'Avant" [Paris: Denoël]. 115 pp., 8vo. (Enfer 978; G. Legman.)
Erotic supplement of French sea-chanteys not printed in Capt. Hayet's
1927 Chansons de bord (Paris: Editions Eos). With a
mock-imprecational "Coup de Gueule" by way of preface. Compare: Hugill; and
Roy.
Hayn, Hugo, and Alfred N. Gotendorf, and Paul Englisch. 1912-29.
Bibliotheca Germanorum Erotica & Curiosa. Verzeichniss der gesamten
deutschen erotischen Literatur. 3te Auflage. München: G. Müller. 9 vols.,
8vo. Reprinted 1968, Hanau. Tremendous bibliographical work, with erotic and
other folksong items indexed at "Volkslieder-sammlungen." Vol. 9 is
Supplement: 1914-1928, by P. Englisch.
Mr. Hayward's Account. 1821. MS, London. In: Francis Place,
Papers: Collections relating to manners and morals (British Museum
Library, additional MS 27,825); an account written for Place on the back of
a legal document dated 1821, importantly describing the "manners of the
lower orders" in England during the writer's boyhood, "say from 1780 to
1792," and particularly discussing and quoting (in part) bawdy street-songs
of the period.
[Head, Arthur]. pseud. c. 1930. "Uther Capet." The Broadway
Broadsides. [2d Series.] Two privately printed series of chapbooks
written and published by Head at his bookstore in New Haven, Conn. In all,
21 booklets, 8vo. (Yale University Library.) Bawdy jokes retold as
tales-in-verse; No. 21 is an Apologia pro arte poetica sua. Compare:
Haddington; and Hall-Stevenson.
Hecht, Hans. See: David Herd.
Henderson, Hamish. 1947. Ballads of World War II. Collected by
Seamus Mór Maceanruig (Hamish Henderson). Issued by The Lili Marleen Club of
Glasgow, to Members Only. (Copy: G. Legman.) The first unexpurgated
collection of soldiers' songs, including Henderson's "King Faruk," which
became a favorite of the British troops in North Africa. For another of his
unavowed originals, "Ode tae a Penis," pretendedly by Robert Burns, see G.
Legman, The Horn Book (1964), pp. 143-145.
________. Note-books. 1945 ff. MS, Scotland. Textual transcripts
of Henderson's important field-collecting of Scottish folksongs, arranged
chronologically from World War II onward. Accompanied by numerous
tape-recordings, including one or more "roch [rough] reels," of wholly bawdy
sessions at farm-workers' secret societies, etc. (Note-books and tapes
repositoried at the School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh.) Compare:
Carpenter; Gordon; Randolph; Merry Muses of Caledonia; and Greig MS
Collection at Glasgow.
Henderson, W. 1937. Victorian Street Ballads. London: Country Life
Press. 160 pp., 8vo. Compare: Hindley; Shepard; and Laws.
HENRY, Mellinger. 1938. Folksongs from the Southern Highlands. New
York: J. J. Augustin. Printed in Germany, and therefore somewhat more free
than most such American regional collections. Compare: Louis CHAPPELL; and
FAUSET.
[HERD, David]. 1769. Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs. Edinburgh.
1776. Same, enlarged edition. 2 vols., 12mo. Reprinted, Edinburgh 1869, and
1870: two different reprints. The most important early collection of
Scottish folksongs, with those of Robert BURNS; and James WATSON (1711).
Note: The reprint of Herd dated 1791 is entirely expurgated.
________. 1904. Songs from David Herd's Manuscripts. Hans HECHT,
ed. London. Supplement to the preceding work. (Herd's Manuscripts are
preserved in the British Museum Library, and contain certain other songs not
printed by Hecht, as the "from" in his title warns.)
HEYWOOD, Thomas. 1608. The Rape of Lucrèce. London. Reprint 1950,
Alan Holaday, ed. University of Illinois Press.
HICKERSON, Joseph C. 1974. A Bibliography of American Folksong in the
English Language. In American Folk-Poetry: An Anthology, Duncan
Emrich, ed., pp. 775-816. Boston: Little, Brown.
________, and Alan DUNDES. 1962. Mother Goose Vice Verse. Journal of
American Folklore 75:258 ff.
HIGGINBOTHAM, Don. 1963. Folk Lore of the United States Marine Corps.
Austin, Texas, 26 f., 4to. (Copy: G. Legman.) Extraordinary collection
of erotic and sadistic usages and traditions, with songs, jokes, hazings,
etc. Submitted as term paper to Folklore course of Roger Abrahams,
Philadelphia.
HILER, Hilaire. See: Full Dress Suits and Plenty of Whores, 1928.
HILL, Richard. 1908. Common-place Book. (MS c. 1536.)
Edited by Roman Dyboski. London: Early English Text Society (Extra Series,
vol. 101). Compare: Musarum Deliciœ.
HILLE, Waldemar. 1948. The People's Song Book. New York: Boni &
Gaer.
HILTON, John. 1652. Catch that Catch Can. London. Also 1658.
Collection of drollery verse and "catches," often bawdy.
[HINDLEY, Charles]. 1871. Curiosities of Street Literature: comprising
"Cocks," or "Catchpennies," a large and curious assortment of
Street-Drolleries, etc. London. Reprinted 1966 (luxuriously, on various
colored paper) by "The Broadsheet King," John Foreman, London, 2 vols., 4to.
Contains little of a direct erotic nature (compare: SHEPARD), but gives a
marvelous picture of the mad welter of cheap street-ballads, etc., at their
last and largest explosion, just before being supplanted by cheap
newspapers, books (and later movies and TV). See also: ASHTON; PINTO; WEHSE;
and Roxburghe Ballads (selections).
HIRSCHFELD, Magnus, and Andreas GASPAR. 1930-31. Sittengeschichte des
Weltkrieges. Leipzig/ Wien. Mit Beiträgen von Paul ENGLISCH, et al. 2
vols. and Ergänzungsheft, 4to. (1966-68 Abridged edition as vol. 1 of
Sittengeschichte des 20 Jahrhunderts, Hanau.) The more erotic folk
materials in this "Moral History" of World War I are relegated to the
Ergänzungsheft. One of these items, a dysphemistic parody "menu," is
reprinted and translated in Maledicta (1982). Compare: BRUNNER.
HNATJUK (or Gnatjuk), Volodymyr. 1909. Die Brautkammer: Eine
Episode aus dem ukrainischen Hochzeitsbräuchen. Anthropophytéia
6:113-149. Ukrainian erotic wedding songs with German translation. Compare:
Folklore de l'Ukraine.
________. 1909. Ein erotisches ukrainisches Lied aus dem XVII
Jahrhundert. Anthropophytéia 6:344-347.
________. 1909. Parallelen zu einem magyarischen Volklied.
Anthropophytéia 6:347-352. Texts in Ukrainian, Slovenian and Serbian,
with German translation. See: FOHN, Magyarische Erotik.
________. 1910. Polnische erotische Lieder aus dem XVIII Jahrhundert.
Anthropophytéia 7:359-
365. Polish folksongs (with German translation) from the Levyckyj MS.
Compare: BLINKIEWICZ; DROZDANOWSKI; and Folklore Polski.
HOERNER, S. 1912. ABC des Pfurzes. Anthropophytéia 9:510-511.
Fart-alphabet; text similar to rhymed alphabet obscœna in English.
HOFFMANN, Frank A. 1973. Analytical Survey of Anglo-American
Traditional Erotica. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University
Popular Press. Bibliographical notes throughout; useful but very incomplete
in view of its ambitious title, especially as to Kryptádia contents.
HOLBROOK, Stewart H. 1938. Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the
American Lumberjack. New York: Macmillan. Compare: DOERFLINGER; IVES;
and THOMPSON. Also Robert E. PIKE 1967, Tall Trees, Tough Men (New
York) chapt. 14, pp. 153-155 on bawdy lumberjack ballads, such as "The
Whore's Lament," which are coyly begun but stated to be "too scabrous to
print."
HOLLOWAY, John, and Joan BLACK. 1975. Later English Broadside Ballads.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Fine selection, in part erotic,
of 18th-century materials from the Madden Collection of 25,000 printed
broadside ballads at Cambridge University. Compare: WARDROPER; PINTO;
Pepys Ballads; Bagford Ballads; and Roxburghe Ballads.
Hollywood Bedtime Stories. 1930. Hollywood, Calif: Privately
Printed. (Copy: Arthur Deex, Los Altos Hills, Calif.) Includes verse.
The Honest Fellow, or Reveller's Memorandum-Book . . . A Collection of
such jocular Songs now in vogue. 1790. By Bumper Allnight, Esq. [pseud.]
London. 228 pp., 12mo. (PC. 906; Bodleian, W. N. H. Harding Collection)
Compare: The Frisky Muse; The Giblet Pye; Merry Muses of Caledonia.
Note: The George Daniel sale catalogue (1864) no. 1573, gives an earlier
edition, London: T. Archer, 1767.
HOPKINS, Anthony. 1979. Songs from the Front & Rear: Canadian
Servicemen's Songs of the Second World War. Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig
Publishers. 192 pp., 4to, with music. The outstanding collection of World
War II armed service songs, publicly published: three-dimensionally edited
with interpretive headnotes and unexpurgated texts p. 132 to end. Excellent
foreword on wartime obscenity by Bob GODFREY, former Squadron Leader.
Compare: GETZ; HENDERSON; STARR; North Atlantic Squadron; and Camp
Fire Songs and Verse.
HOWARD, Dorothy G. Mills. 1938. Folk Jingles of American Children.
A collection and study of rhymes used by children today. MS, New York. (4),
vi, 235 f., 4to, typewritten. Ph.D. dissertation. School of Education, New
York University. Not entirely expurgated, giving for example "Smarty Farty
had a party." But compare: BORNEMAN; GAIGNEBET; LOWENSTEIN; McCOSH; OPIE;
SUTTON-SMITH; and TURNER.
HUGILL, Stanley J. 1961. Shanties from the Seven Seas. London:
Routledge. Reprinted 1966. New York: Dutton. Supplemented by Hugill's 1967
Sailortown and the following: Songs of the Seas 1977, New
York: McGraw-Hill.
[________] . 1956-57. Sailing Ship Shanties, by Long John Silver [pseud.]
MS, Aberdovey, Merioneth, Wales. (Copy: G. Legman.) The unexpurgated
texts, supplied for the present editor's work, of all the shanties later
"camouflaged" in Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas. Compare:
"Dave E. JONES"; HAYET; CARPENTER; and COLCORD.
Humor Russkago naroda v skazkach. See: Mejdu Druziami:
Second Series.
HUNTINGTON, Gale. 1964. Songs the Whalemen Sang. Barre, Mass.:
Barre Publishers.
HUSTON, John. See: H. Hoyt TAYLOR.
IBELS, André. 1906. La Traite des chanteuses. Paris. On the
semi-prostitution of French music-hall singers, both in France and as
white-slaves abroad. With list, p. 241, of off-color and pornographic songs
women were often required to sing, in this development of the French
"caveaux," German "Weinstuben," and British "song-cellars" of
preceding centuries.
Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy
Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and other humorous verses and
doggerel. 1927. "Now for the first time brought together in book form,
By A Gentleman About Town" [Thomas R. SMITH. New York: Macy-Masius; later
Jacob Baker, Vanguard Press.] iii, 184 pp., 4to. Printed on laid paper
watermarked "Warren's Olde Style," and reprinted by the same or another
publisher [1929?] on Warren's wove paper, without visible lay-lines. In the
reprint the last word, "two," of poem "King David" on page 10 is omitted.
The first edition may actually have appeared in 1928, predated one year to
evade police attention. (Note: Harold H. Hart's Immortalia and The
Complete Immortalia, 1970-71, are not in any sense editions or revisions
of this work. The "cover-item," Innominata, about 1930, an
unexpurgated translation of old Italian tales, is also not identical.) See:
Smith's own continuation, The "Wrecks"; and his Poética Erotica.
________. 1927. Same: Immortalia. [New York: Samuel Roth, 1929?]
4to. A piracy, printed on paper watermarked "Louvain Book," concurrently
used by Roth in his magazine Casanova Jr. 's Tales; but otherwise
almost indistinguishable from the original. Many minor points of difference,
however, in the typesetting. (Copy: Clifford Scheiner, Brooklyn, N.Y.)
________. c. 1932. Same. [Philadelphia: Nathan Young and Robert
Sterling.] Offset reprint in reduced size. Visibly, Immortalia is the
most popular American bawdy songbook.
________. c. 1959. Same. "Edited by Arthur Mackay. The Karman
Society." Japan. iii, 184 pp., 12mo. (Copy: G. Legman.) No "editing" has
taken place. Text is merely reset, with certain errors and double-settings,
e.g., the note on p. 40.
________. 1966. Same. "250 copies reprinted by Another Gentleman About
Town for his friends. None is for general sale. 1964." San Francisco. Offset
reprint of the original edition.
________. 1969. Same. Facsimile title page. On verso: "Presented to the
public, 1969, by Parthena Press, Venice, California" [Arlington, Texas: John
Newbern]. (3), iii, 183 pp., 16mo. Entirely reset in pocket size. Announces
a sequel in preparation for which contributions are to be sent to "Betty
Parthena" (!) Sequel did not appear, as publisher died of a heart-attack in
Chicago while climbing into a taxicab laden with sample books. See: The
Cream of the Crap.
________. 1981. Same, as A Book of Vulgar Verse. Toronto:
Checkerbooks, Inc. See also: HART.
The Indiscreet Muse: Poems of diverse amatory moods. 1946. New
York: Citadel Press. [Edited by Hiram HAYDN?] in part from T. R. SMITH'S
Poética Erotica; and Peter BEILENSON gift-books.
An Introductory Collection of Real Folk and Traditional Songs.
See: Dirt: An Exegesis.
IRWIN, Godfrey. 1931. American Tramp and Underworld Slang . . . with a
selection of tramp songs. London: Scholartis Press, Eric Partridge; New
York: Sears. Songs, pp. 199-252. Reviewed by J. Louis Kuethe, 1934,
American Speech 9:304, reprimanding Irwin for the excessive expurgation,
and calling him "far too naïve or squeamish." In fact, the toning down of
the manuscript to relative worthlessness was insisted upon by the publisher,
Eric Partridge. Compare: BROPHY; and MILBURN, another masterpiece of
expurgation. Almost the only showing of the real tramp and hobo songs is in
the Gordon "Inferno" MS. Compare: Dorothy Charques 1937, The Tramp
and his Woman (London). See also The Slime Sheet, presumably
edited by Irwin.
IVES, Edward D. 1978. Joe Scott, The Woodsman-Songmaker.
University of Illinois Press. On bawdy lumberjack songs, pp. 367 and
391-392. Compare: GUTHRIE; PIKE; and HOLBROOK.
JACK, Stella. See: Percy Folio Manuscript.
JACKSON, Bruce. 1972. "Wake Up Dead Man": Afro-American Worksongs from
Texas Prisons. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Excellent
text and musical transcriptions, with the best version recovered of the
erotic toast-recitation "Jody" (Joe the Grinder), pp. 167-170; others
erotized as here sung, though originally nonerotic, like "Stewball," pp.
102-107, and 161. This work and the following are notable examples of the
New Freedom for American university press publication. Compare: FAUSET;
Louis CHAPPELL; and ROCHESTER.
________. 1974. "Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me":
Narrative Poetry from the Black Oral Tradition. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press. Outstanding; the best collection and discussion of
bawdy American Negro rhyming "toasts" and similar verse, impeccably edited.
Compare: ABRAHAMS; DANCE; FIDDLE; EDDINGTON; WEPMAN; and YANKAH.
JAMET le Jeune, François-Louis. c. 1752-77. Stromates sur les
femmes. MS, Paris. 4to. (Enfer 1247) Two-volume collection of
clippings, letters, engravings, etc., partly in erotic verse, heavily
annotated by the erudite collector Jamet. This very interesting manuscript
scrapbook described in extenso by Pascal PIA, Les Livres de
l'Enfer, cols. 1271-1276. Compare: CARÓN; and MAUREPAS.
Jest on Sex. Sexplosively sexsational sinerama of life . . . for He
and She: Ages from Sexteen to Sexty. 1953. New York: Encore Press. 192
pp., 8vo. Imitation of the dreary series (7 vols. or more) over Over
Sexteen naughty humor collections by J. M. ELGART (New York, 1951 ff.),
which had other imitative series of Sexations and the like, all c.
1955. This is the only one with anything of the folk-humor tone; also
the only one to include mildly bawdy verse and songs. Compare also: BAKER;
CURRAN; NEWBERN; Locker Room Humor; and Sex to Sexty.
JIMÉNEZ, A. (Armando Jiménez Farias.) 1960. Picardía Mexicana.
México: Costa-Amic/Libro Mex. Often reprinted. 1971 Supplemented by:
Nueva Picardía Mexicana. Twice-over-lightly presentation of Mexican
erotic folklore in riotous typography, with texts of the main obscene poem,
"El Anima de Sayula," vol. 1:153-160, and 242, on which see further Américo
PAREDES 1966, The Anglo-American in Mexican Folklore; in New Voices in
American Studies (Purdue University Studies), pp. 113-128, at pp.
121-124; and G. LEGMAN, Rationale of the Dirty Joke (No Laughing
Matter), vol. 2: 159-162. These volumes are basically folklore, unlike the
J. M. Elgart Over Sexteen would-be naughty humor series in the United
States, which may have inspired them. (See at: Jest on Sex.) Jiménez'
work is further supplemented in his 1977 El Tumbaburro de la Picardía
Mexicana: Diccionario de Términos vulgares, (México: Editorial Diana),
with which compare CELA, and the serious study by Alejandro ALARCÓN 1978,
El Habla popular de los jóvenes en la Ciudad de México (Costa-Amic),
with glossary, pp. 110-149. On Hispanic erotic folklore see: CELA;
LEHMANN-NITZSCHE; MICHEL; and Literatura popular erótica.
JOHNSON, Guy B. 1927. Double Meaning in the Popular Negro Blues.
Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 22:12-20. Compare: NIEMOELLER;
TOBIASON; URDANG; and especially OLIVER.
________, and Howard W. ODUM. 1964. The Negro and his Songs.
Hatboro, Penn.: Folklore Associates. Note: Much material expurgated from
this work (original edition 1925; also from their Negro Workaday Songs,
Chapel Hill, 1926), now "lost" among Odum's papers, was unfortunately
not restored in this reprint. Compare: PERROW.
JOHNSON, James. See: Scots Musical Museum.
"JOHNSON, John Henry" [pseud. of Maxwell DROKE]. 1935. Bawdy
Ballads and Lusty Lyrics. Indianapolis: Droke. Enlarged edition, 1950;
reprinted 1970 New York: Pocket Books. Very mild stuff. Compare: BRAND; and
Rowdy Rhymes. Not to be confused with "Dick Harde's" Lusty
Limericks and Bawdy Ballads, as intended by "Harde."
La Joie du Pornographe, ou Nouveau Recueil d'amusements. 1884.
"Paris: Mère Godichon" [Bruxelles: Kistemaeckers]. 128 pp., 16mo. (PC. 937;
G. Legman.) Reprint of La Lyre gaillarde, "Aux Porcherons," 1776.
(PC. 1083-1084; Enfer 698.)
"JONES, Dave E." [i.e., "Davy Jones"]. c. 1928. A Collection of
Sea Songs and Ditties, from the stores of Dave E. Jones [pseud.
United States]. 48 pp., sq.16mo. (Unique copy: Kinsey-ISR, formerly in the
collection of G. Legman.) Printed on tan paper in canvas covers, each page
with a hole punched in the outer edge for a padlock; compare Forbidden
Fruit. The editing of this collection of bawdy sea songs has been
attributed to Frank SHAY. Compare: HUGILL.
JONES, Harry. 1969. "The Language of the Blues." Lecture at University of
Pennsylvania, quoted in Wm. FERRIS thesis, pp. 194, 492.
JONES, Lewis. c. 1850. Jones-Conklin MS. East Hampton, N.Y.
Military and naval song texts, about one-third erotic, mostly copied from
printed broadsides, c. 1825-50. Repositoried in Indiana University
Library in 1958 by Edmund Conklin, and being edited for publication by
Kenneth Goldstein.
Journal of American Folklore. 1962. Philadelphia. 75:187-265.
Entire issue devoted to "Symposium on Obscenity in Folklore," papers
read at the combined meeting of the Modern Language Association and American
Folklore Society, 28 December 1960, on the initiative of Tristram P. Coffin
and Roger D. Abrahams, two then-young American folklorists. This apparently
closed the subject. Except for book reviews, almost nothing further on
erotic folklore has appeared in JAF since that date. But see: BAKER;
and LEGMAN.
JOYCE, James. 1922. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare & Co. Various
piracies and reprints. That of Random House, New York, 1934, was used as
basis of a word-index published in mimeographed form. Erotic and other
song-scraps passim; compare also the imitative works by Conrad Aiken,
Blue Voyage (1927), and Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (Paris,
1934), similarly furbished. Joyce's later Finnegans Wake (1939)
contains a few songs: all eccentrica.
JUNGBAUER, G. 1930. Volkslieder aus dem Böhmerwalde. Prague. Vol.
l includes erotic materials without segregation. Compare: KRAUSS; and
PAUSET.
Jyl of Brentford's Testament. 1871. By Robert COPLAND,
boke-prynter (fl. 1508-1547); "The Wyll of the Devyll, and his last
testament"; "A Talk of Ten Wives, on their husbands' ware"; a balade or two
by Chaucer, and other short pieces. Edited by Frederick J. FURNIVALL.
London: Printed for Private Circulation (Ballad Society, vol. 7A). 44, (2)
p., 8vo. (New York Public Library, 8-NCK.) The "Talk of Ten Wives, on their
husbands' ware" (from the Porkington MS about 1460) pp. 29-33, is the oldest
surviving erotic folksong in English, a reversal in which the women brag of
the large size of their cunts, not of their husbands' small pricks, "Three
Old Whores from Canada," as traced and discussed in Legman, The Horn Book,
pp. 222 and 414-415. See further: MÜLLER; SCHNABEL; and SCHWAAB, on
Germanic versions.
RABRONSKY, V. [pseud.] 1978. Uncensored Russian
Limericks. New York: Russica Publishers. Not actual limericks, but
Russian chastushki, or erotic four-liners, given in Cyrillic letters
without English translation. See: RASKIN; STERN-SZANA; Mejzdu Druziami;
and Folklore de l'Ukraine.
KANNON, Jackie. 1960. Poems for the john. New York: Kanrom, Inc.
Crap?!
Kate Hand-Cock, or A Young Girl's Introduction to Fast Life. c.
1900. Privately Printed. Paris? 36 pp., 16mo. (Enfer 847) Text dated
"London, 1882." Erotic poems, pp. 23-36.
KEARNEY, Patrick J. See: The Private Case.
KELE, Richard. c. 1550. Carolles Newly Imprinted. London.
"Contains more crucifixion than nativity carols, and a few that are
frivolous and even licentious." (Encyclopedia Britannica) Compare:
WEDDERBURN, on similar survivals in hymns.
KELLER, Benjamin. 1949. Chad's Ford Flivver Songs. MS, Socorro,
N.M. Collection of 30 bawdy song texts, supplied to G. Legman for present
work.
KELLOGG, James W. 1963. Fighter Pilot Songs. Austin, Tex. ii, 35
f., 4to, hektographed. (Copies: Roger Abrahams; G. Legman.) Term paper
submitted to Abrahams's folklore course, English 325K. Reprints part of the
Guam Air Force Songs (Warning!) folio, with comments, c. 1945.
KENNEDY, Peter. 1975. Folksongs of Britain and Ireland. London:
Cassell; New York: Macmillan. 4to. Excellently researched, but silently
restricted in chapts. 7-10, the songs of courtship, seductions, etc., to the
least graphic texts available. Valuable comparative notes.
________. and Alan LOMAX. 1961. The Folksongs of Britain. I: Songs
of Courtship. II: Songs of Seduction. New York: Caedmon Records. 51 and 52
pp., 16mo. Two of a series of chapbook pamphlets accompanying phonograph
recordings of the same title, and giving the texts and tunes of the
collected folksongs for copyright purposes. See item preceding.
KENNEDY, X. J. 1981. Tygers of Wrath. Athens, Ga.: University of
Georgia Press.
KER, John Bellenden GAWLER. 1834. An Essay on the Archaiology of
Popular English Phrases and Nursery Rhymes. Southampton. (8), 163 pp.,
8vo. 2d edition, enlarged. London, 1835-37; Andover, 1840. 4 vols., 12mo, in
two series of 2 vols. each. Highly eccentric work, attempting to demonstrate
that English proverbial phrases and rhymes are all in a secret "Old Dutch"
language, and consist mainly of imprecations against the clergy. Includes
texts of many unexpurgated children's rhymes, some reprinted from Infant
Institutes (1797?) Compare: BORNEMAN; McCOSH; SUTTON-SMITH; TURNER; also
HALLIWELL. KER'S work is very rare.
KESZTHELY, Bartol. 1906. Magyarische Erotik: Reime und Lieder aus dem
Eisenburger Komitate. Anthropophytéia 3:51-53. Compare: FOHN.
Kick Him Jenny, a tale [in verse]. 1737. 11th edition. To which is
added, The Female Contest, a merry tale. London: W. France. 24 pp.,
12mo. (PC. 956) Compare: HADDINGTON.
KIDSON, Frank. 1891. Traditional Tunes: A Collection of Ballad Airs.
Oxford: Taphouse. Reprinted 1970, Wakefield, Yorks.: S. R. Publishers.
"KIESEWETTER, Bonifazius." See: Wirtshaus an der Lahn.
"KIMBO." [pseud. of Bradley GILMAN]. 1925-26. Tropical Tales.
And: More Tropical Tales. Nice. 2 vols., 8vo. (Copies: Ohio State
University; G. L.) Jokes and facetiæ, including verse. Under his own name
author also issued Clinic on the Comic (Nice, 1926), copy: LC.
[KINLOCH, George R.]. 1827. The Ballad Book. Edinburgh. Reprinted
1885 by E. Goldsmid. A somewhat less expurgated supplement to Kinloch's
Ancient Scottish Ballads (1827), but compare following.
________. 1829. Burlesque and Jocular Ballads and Songs. MS,
Scotland. (Harvard University Library 25242.12.) Comprises the pages totally
withdrawn from both Kinloch's main and supplementary volumes (see above),
with a satirical title page parodying that of WEDDERBURN'S Book of Gude
and Godlie Ballads. Note: These materials are indexed in MONTGOMERIE,
q.v.
KINSEY Institute for Sex Research, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana. c. 1963. Folk Poems and Songs. MS about 1963.
Archive file of about 100 items, and "xeroxlore," 4to, with contents-index
prepared by Frank A. Hoffmann. These archives — now heavily robbed as to the
"xeroxlore" — also repository separately the student song collections of
Roger ABRAHAMS, the Buchan Bawdry MS of Kenneth GOLDSTEIN, and other
relevant MS materials by Vance RANDOLPH, G. LEGMAN, Kenneth LARSON, and
others. Compare: DORSON MS Archive.
KIRKPATRICK SHARPE. See: Charles Kirkpatrick SHARPE.
KLIGMAN, Gail. 1984. The Rites of Women: Oral Poetry ... in Contemporary
Romania. Journal of American Folklore 97:167—188. In-depth study;
gives a few bawdy strigâturi (shouted, rhymed couplets) pp. 178-180
used at Romanian peasant wedding-feasts; noting p. 186/18 that in the
village studied, "Pornographic strigâturi are, in fact, rarely heard
. . . because they are not well tolerated. . . . This is peculiar to [these
villagers] and not characteristic of neighboring villages." The neighboring
villages are still waiting for their in-depth study.
[KLINEFELTER, Walter]. 1942. Preface to An Unprintable Opus, by
Pedro Pococampo [pseud.]. Portland, Maine:
Southworth-Anthoensen Press. Privately Printed. (v), 15 pp., 8vo. Limited to
75 copies. (NYPL: *K.) The "Unprintable Opus" is the American folksong
"Christopher Columbo," here traced to the Columbian Exposition of 1892 in
Chicago. Compare: [LEGMAN], The Ballast-Value of the PHTH-Phoneme in
Anglo-Norse, by "Gonzague Truc."
KLINTBERG, Bengt af, and Christina MATTSSON. 1977. Fula visboken: 50
folkliga erotiska visor. Lund. (Tiden: Fib's Lyrikklub Bibliotek, no.
196.) 137 pp., 12mo. Erotic song supplement to B. af-KLINTBERG and Finn
ZETTERHOLM 1971, Svensk Folkpoesi (Stockholm). Compare: RASMUSSEN, on
Danish erotic songs.
KLOSE, H. U. 1941. Sexus und Eros in der deutschen Novellendichtung um
1900. Breslau. Ph.D. dissertation, issued during World War II.
KNAPP, Mary, and Herbert KNAPP. 1976. "One Potato, Two Potato:" The
Secret Education of American Children. New York: Norton. See: McCOSH.
KOCHMAN, Thomas. 1972. Rappin' and Stylin' Out. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press. Negro recitations. Compare: ABRAHAMS; DANCE; EDDINGTON;
FOSTER; JACKSON; and LABOV.
KOHN, Gustav. 1912. Lieder aus Oesterreichisch-Schlesien.
Anthropophytéia 9:455-456. Erotic songs from Austrian Silesia. Compare
BLÜMML.
KOPP, Arthur. 1899. Deutsches Volksund Studentenlied in vorklassischer
Zeit. (Im Anschluss an die bisher ungedruckte
von-Crailsheimsche-Liederhandschrift der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin.)
Berlin. But see: Futilitates, 1908, Emil Karl BLÜMML et al., eds.
(Wien) vol. 3: Aus den Liederhandschriften des Studenten CLODIUS
(1699) und des Fräuleins von CRAILSHEIM (1749). See also: BUDZINSKI.
KOSTIÁL, Johannes. 1908, 1909, 1911. Erotik in slovenischen Volksliedern.
Anthropophytéia 5:157-160, 6:383-389, and 8:378. Slovenian erotic
song texts, with German translation.
________. 1909. Erotische und skatologische Schnadahüpfeln (vilótis)
aus Friaul. Anthropophytéia 6:389-396. Italian erotic vilótis
(four-line dance songs) from Friuli, near the Austrian border, with
German translation. Compare: OSTERMANN, and below.
_________1909. Prof V. Ostermann, Villotte friulane: Appendice.
Anthropophytéia 6:469-482. Erotic vilótis from Friuli (with
German translation), collected by OSTERMANN, q.v., but not included in his
main work on the subject. See also the second item preceding here.
________. 1909. Slovakische erotische und skatologische Volklieder.
Anthropophytéia 6:364-369. Slovak song-texts, with German translation.
_________1910. Erotische Verse aus Graz. Anthropophytéia
7:370-371.
________. 1911. Czechische Liedchen. Anthropophytéia 8:377-378.
Czech and Slovenian erotic songs, with German translation. See also: FIALKA.
________. 1912. Italienisch Lieder aus dem österreichischen Küstenlande.
Anthropophytéia 9:466-467 and 472. Includes an Italian form of the
satirical "33 Beauties of a Woman" (three white, three black, etc.).
KOUKOULÈS, Mary. 1983. Loose-Tongued Greeks: A Miscellany of
Neo-Hellenic Erotic Folklore. Translated by John Taylor [and G. Legman].
With an Introduction by G. Legman. Paris: Digamma, Bibliophile Edition (and
Waukesha, Wisc.: Maledicta Press). 184 pp., 8vo. Limited to 303 copies.
Gives the Greek texts of the songs and recitations, and English translation
on facing pages. The most important collection of modern Greek erotic rhymed
folklore, other than Elias PETROPOULOUS'S Rebétika Tragoudia and
Kaliardá (Athens: Digamma, 1968 and 1971) on urban folk-poetry and Greek
homosexual slang. Further volumes as: Loose-Tailed Greeks, etc. are
announced in progress. Compare: Ethelyn G. ORSO 1979, Modern Greek Humor
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press), principally of erotic prose
tales and jokes; also LELEGOS and SANDERS. The Introduction by G. Legman,
and a brief part of Mme. Koukoulès's text in their joint translation, first
appeared in Maledicta (1983) as In the Time of Masturbation.
________. 1984—88. Same. Neo-Hellenike Athyrostomia. Athens:
Digamma. 3 vols., complete 1160 items, of which only nos. 1-302 given in
English edition above.
[KRAUSS, Friedrich S.]. 1898. Folklore de la Grande Russie. Kryptádia
5:183-214. Note: It has been questioned whether Krauss was the editor or
actual collector of these materials.
[________]. 1899, 1901, 1902. Die Zeugung in Sitte, Brauch, und Glauben
der Südslaven:
Lieder. Kryptádia 6:193-382, 7:97-368, and 8:149-266. Slavonic,
Bosnian, and Croatian erotic songs, with German translation: a remarkable
field collection, supplementing Krauss's 1885 Sitte und Brauch der
Südslaven (Wien). His matching collection of tales and joke materials is
published in the later volumes of Anthropophytéia.
________. 1911. Das Geschlechtsleben dés deutschen Volkes in der
Gegenwart: Folkloristische Studien und Erhebungen, hrsg. Dr. Friedrich S.
KRAUSS. Leipzig: Ethnologischer Verlag. (Anthropophytéia:
Beiwerke, vol. 4.) 4to. Contributions by Hugo LÜDECKE, Fr. E. SCHNABEL, O.
STÜCKRATH, et al. Part IV includes "Der erotische Vierzeiler: Die Wirtin
an der Lahn," 334 bawdy quatrains, with which compare: WELLS; and
Wirtshaus an der Lahn; also REISKEL, below.
________. 1970. Same. Abridged reprint. Hanau: Schustek. 197 pp.
________, and Karl REISKEL. 1905. Das Wirtshaus an der Lahn: Die
ungedruckten, erotischen Strophen des Volksliedes. Anthropophytéia
2:113-116. Compare: KRAUSS, Geschlechtsleben, above; also WELLS; and
Wirtshaus an der Lahn.
________, and Alfred WEBINGER, eds. 1929. Das Minnelied des deutschen
Landund Stadtvolkes. (Anthropophytéia: Beiwerke, vol. 9.) 315
pp., 4to. By far the most important work on German erotic folksongs, with
contributions by numerous collectors. Compare: BORNEMAN.
________. 1968. Same. Abridged reprint. Hanau: Schustek. 246 pp. Omits
the music, etc.
KRAUSS, Joanne. 1972-73. Love and Death and the American Ballad: A
Morphodite of "Ballads of Family Opposition to Lovers." Folklore Annual
4-5:91-100.
"KROTUS, Michael." [pseud. of Hugo GÖKE.] 1970. Klappentexte:
Materialen zur Psychologie der Dichtung. Freiburg: Peripress.
Kryptádia: Recueil de documents pour servir à l'étude des traditions
populaires. 1883-1911. Heilbronn (& Paris). 12 vols., 12mo. (PC. 960;
UCLA, Folklore and Mythology Center.) Reprinted 1970, Darmstadt, with
Introduction by Will Peuckert. (Vols. 1-3 were also offset-reprinted, on the
reviving of the yearbook in Paris, 1898.) Erotic folklore and folksong
collections in many languages (except English); yearbook founded by Isidor
Kopernicky and Friedrich S. KRAUSS and edited by the French and Italian
folklorists, Gaston PARIS (who wrote the Introduction to vol. 1), E.
Rolland, Henry Gaidoz, E.-Henri Carnoy, and Giuseppe Pitrè. All the editors
and contributors agreed to remain anonymous to protect their professional
positions on the companion yearbook, La Tradition. Independently
continued 1906-09 as Contributions au Folklore Érotique, Kleinbronn:
Gustav Ficker, 4 vols., 12mo, of tales only, all the contributors being
pseudonymous. Note also Krauss's much more important continuation yearbook,
Anthropophytéia (q.v.), which remained active until stopped by the
Nazis in the 1930s.
KÜHLEWEIN, Hermann, et al. 1909. Erotische Kinderreime aus
Gross-Frankfurt. Anthropophytéia 6:400-401. Compare: BORNEMAN.
_________1910, 1911. Die Erotik in der Lateinschule. Anthropophytéia
7:237-238 and 8:291. Erotic student verse in Latin-German "macaronics."
Compare: Medulla; and VORBERG.
________. 1910, 1911. Lieder aus Gross-Frankfurt. Anthropophytéia
7:366-374 and 8:467-469. Includes erotic "stuttering" or "tease-songs" of a
type existing also in English and French.
KYNET, Harold H. 1945. What Nonsense! Philadelphia. "Musical
Note," pp. 130-137, on erotic songs.
LA BARRE, Weston. 1939. The Psychopathology of Drinking Songs.
Psychiatry 2:203-212. Reprinted in pamphlet form, c. 1978, with
other of the author's pseudonymous persiflages.
LABOV, William. 1972. Language in the Inner City. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press. On Negro recitation styles. Compare:
ABRAHAMS; DANCE; EDDINGTON; FOSTER; JACKSON; and KOCHMAN.
Lacht zum Bescheissen! Eine ausgewählte Sammlung erotischer Vorträge,
Gedichte, Anekdoten, etc., für Freunde ausgelassener Fröhlichkeit. c.
1890 "New-York und Philadelphia: Bei A. R. Schlecker" [Germany or Austria].
(Copy: G. Legman.) Compare: Arschwische und Scheissereien; and, of
American congeners, The Book of a Thousand Laughs; Cleopatra's Handbook;
Select Reading; and The Stag Party.
LANCHESTER, Elsa. See: DISCOGRAPHY, in progress.
LANSDALE, Edward G. See: Lydia FISH.
LA PIPE, Jean. See: Bernard ROY.
LARSON, Kenneth. 1952. Barnyard Folklore of Southeastern Idaho: A
Collection of vulgar verses, jokes, and popular ballads, all of them
unprintable, obtained by word-of-mouth from those who [were]
entertained by them (mostly farmers, laborers, and students) . . . during
the years from 1920 to 1952. Salt Lake City, Utah. v, 77, 31, 55, 76 f.
(244 in all), 4to. Typescript, including music. (Copies: Indiana University
Folklore Archives; Idaho State University Archives, Pocatello, Idaho;
University of California, Los Angeles, Folklore and Mythology Center; G.
Legman.) Note: As to the title page statement of "word-of-mouth"
transmission, the compiler prepared and circulated two different
redactions of this same material, the earlier form entitled Songs and
Ballads: Vulgar Ballads, Jingles, and Jokes, collected . . . Idaho,
1932-1952. (Copies: Indiana University Folklore Archives; G. Legman.)
Some of the versions of the same songs — same informant, date and place of
collection, etc. — are not identical in the two redactions, in some cases
one being less expurgated than the other or using a different level of
erotic vocabulary, implying editorial revision at the later date. See also:
LEGMAN, Specimens of Folklore.
Der lasterhafte Herr Biedermeyer. c. 1930. "Wollüstige
Tändeleyen/unziemliche Reimereyen." Wien. 195 pp., 8vo. [Edited by Leo
SCHIDROWITZ.] A collection of stanzas of Das Wirtshaus an der Lahn,
q.v.
LATZENHOFER, Josef. 1908. Militaria: Ein Sammlung der typischen
handschriftlichen Literatur des deutschen Soldatenstandes. See: BLÜMML,
Futilitates, vol. 4.
LAVENDER, Roy. See: Lost Limericks & Bar Room Ballads.
[LAWRENCE, T. E.]. 1936. The Mint. New York: Doubleday. (Private
copyright edition, not issued publicly. Copy: Library of Congress,
Delta.) Reprinted 1958?, London: Cape. Gives (in the de-luxe copies
only) text of the British Army bawdy ballad "The Captain's Wife."
LAWS, G. Malcolm, Jr. 1950. Native American Balladry: A Descriptive
Study and Bibliographical Syllabub. Philadelphia: American Folklore
Society. (Bibliographical Series, vol. 1) Revised edition, 1964. Continues
in following item.
________. 1957. American Balladry from British Broadsides: A Guide for
Students and Collectors of
Traditional Song. Philadelphia: American Folklore Society.
(Bibliographical Series, vol. 8.) Important research and indexing tool for
folksong studies. (Compare: SIMPSON.) Continuation of preceding.
The Lay of John Haroldson. c. 1862. Philadelphia? Pamphlet, 8vo.
Topical bawdy song of the Civil War on the purported use of Southern ladies'
chamber-lye for nitrates to make gunpowder. Revived in World War I as
"Von Hindenburg" and briefly in World War II as "Oh, Eisenhower!" (Copies:
NYPL: 3*; Brown Univ. Library, Harris Collection.) Various antiquarian
societies in the United States also possess other early broadside versions,
some with crude woodcut showing the Southern ladies squatting. The general's
name is correctly "Harrolson."
LAYCOCK, Donald C. 1955-61. Obiter Dicta. Canberra, Australia. MS.
Typewritten folio, with handwrit annotations by the compiler and
part-author. (Copies: South Australia National State Library; G. Legman.)
The original redaction of the following item. Compare: Snatches & Lays;
and see Ronald BAKER.
________. 1982. The Best Bawdry. Sydney/Melbourne: Angus &
Robertson. ix, 310 pp., 8vo. Excellent selection of not-mostly Australian
modern songs and poems, with interesting Introduction. Essentially the best
of the "bawdy" volumes (cf. BOLD; and CRAY), but the folk originals are
heavily conflated and editorially revised. Cited therefore to preceding MS.
LAZENBY, W. (William?); pseud. "D. Cameron." (Editor-publisher of
The Pearl and its sequels, The Boudoir, and The Cremorne,
q.v.)
LEACH, Clifford. c. 1933. Bottoms Up! New York:
Paull-Pioneer Music Corp. Folio of semi-bawdy songs with piano music, issued
to celebrate repeal of Prohibition in the United States. Compare: CRAY.
"LE BIHOR, Jean-Marie." See: Armand HAYET.
La Légende Joyeuse, ou Les Cent-et-une leçons de Lampsaque.
1749-51. "Londres: Pynne" [Paris?]. 3 vols., 24to, engraved text. (PC.
988-993; Bodleian φ, 2 vols. only; G. Legman; Enfer 691-692, dated
1760.) Reprinted c. 1780 as Le Bijou de société; Le Cabinet de
Lampsaque, 1784; and Les Bons contes (Étrennes aux raffinés),
1882 Bruxelles. (Enfer 1005, 1018; 609-610; and 1319.) Brief
contes-en-vers.
LEGMAN, Gershon. 1949. For Students of Folklore. American Freeman
(Girard, Kansas, June) p. 10/1-2. Newspaper appeal for materials for the
present work, signed "G. Legman-Keith" [and rewritten by the editor, E.
Haldeman-Julius], listing 46 song titles sought, including T. S. Eliot's
"King Bungo (Boh) and his Great Black Queen," and the lost "E-R-I-E
Canawl."
________. 1950-90. The Ballad: Unexpurgated Folksongs, American &
British, of the Twentieth Century. MS-Archive, New York and Valbonne,
France. Very large collection, awaiting publication; based on collecting
begun in 1934. Compare: CARPENTER; GORDON; HUGILL; and see RANDOLPH,
"Roll Me In Your Arms," etc.
________. 1953. The Limerick: 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants and
Index. Paris: Les Hautes Études, xv, 519 pp., sq.8vo. Limited edition.
Also includes numerous ballads and song-scraps in the limerick metre, listed
pp. 358 and 371, as well as in the Notes & Variants. Reprints.
[________]. 1957. The Ballast Value of the PHTH-Phoneme in Anglo-Norse
Monophthongisation before 1200 A.D., by Gonzague Truc [pseud.].
Paris: Les Hautes Études [Auribeau, Alpes-Mmes., France]. "Dissertation
submitted for the degree of PhthD." (3), 20 f., 4to, photocopy issue from
typewriting, limited to 25 copies. Under the perhaps misleading cover title
this is a tryout of typographical form for The Ballad: Unexpurgated,
and includes only variorum texts of one song, "The Ball o' Kirriemuir,"
1890-1955. Compare: KLINEFELTER; and Songs of Sadism, etc. "by G.
Legman."
________. 1957. The Bawdy Song ... in Fact and in Print. Explorations:
Studies in Culture and Communication (University of Toronto) 7:139-156.
Expurgated before publication, but the editor was nevertheless dismissed for
this "goddam breach of taste!" Expanded as chapter in The Horn Book
(1964) pp. 336-426. Compare: Ronald BAKER; and FOWKE.
________.1964. The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and
Bibliography. New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, Inc. 567 pp., 8vo.
Reprinted 1970, London: Cape, but withdrawn from circulation in England, and
an apology printed in the London Times by the publisher, owing to
complaint by James REEVES, q.v. as to the final chapter, "Who Owns
Folklore?" Spanish translation published in Mexico. See: "The Bawdy Song,"
above.
[________]. 1967. The Limerick: 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants
and Index. With introduction by L. T. Woodward, M.D. San Diego, Calif.:
Greenleaf Classics, Inc. 1 vol. in 2: xx, 522 pp., 16mo. Unauthorized
paperback reprint. See original at date 1953 above.
[________]. 1968. The Limerick . . . abridged, as: Forbidden
Limericks: 253 of the lustiest, most hilarious limericks ever written.
"Privately Printed for Private Circulation by the Blue Balls Press of Paris"
[New York: A. Levy]. Apparently supplemented as by "Peter Gage," 200
Lusty Limericks, Privately Published c. 1970 [New York?]. Further
anonymous, abridged reprints as: Dirty Little Limericks, and More
Dirty Little Limericks, New York: Avenel (Crown) Books, 1980-81; and
The Cream of the Crap [San Francisco? 1983], all 16mo.
________. No Laughing Matter. See following title.
________. 1968. Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual
Humor. First Series. New York: [Basic Books &] Grove Press. 811 pp.,
8vo. With ballad and song-excerpts passim. Reprinted 1970, London:
Cape; 1972 Granada, and 1972 [New York?] Castle Books.
________. 1970. The Limerick: 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants and
Index. Edited by G. Legman. New York: Brandywine Press. lxxix, 517 pp.,
8vo. With a long historical Introduction, pp. vii-lxxiii, revised from The
Limerick: A History in Brief, in The Horn Book. Reprinted 1974, New
York: Bell Publishing Co. and London 1974: Jupiter Books.
________. 1975. Rationale of the Dirty Joke . . . Second Series. (No
Laughing Matter.) New York [Wharton, N.J.]: Breaking Point, Inc. 992
pp., 8vo. Reprinted 1977, New York: Bell Pub. Co.; also 1980 London:
Hart-Davis, and see at date 1982 below.
________. 1976. Bawdy Monologues and Rhymed Recitations. Southern
Folklore Quarterly (University of Florida) 40:59-123.
________. 1976. The Limerick: 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants and
Index. London: Panther Books. 2 vols., 16mo. Paperback reprint, the
order of the chapters and numbering of the limericks being entirely changed
without authorization.
________. 1977. The New Limerick: 2750 Unpublished Examples, American
& British. New York: Crown Publishers. xxxv, 729 pp., 8vo. Includes
ballads and song-scraps in the limerick metre, listed pp. 560 and 591, as
well as in the Introduction, pp. xxi-xxv, and Notes & Variants, passim.
Reprinted as More Limericks: see date 1980 below.
[________]. 1978. The Limerick: 1700 Examples, with Notes, Variants
and Index. New York [Secaucus, N.J.] 8vo. Unauthorized reprint, without
the 70-page Introduction.
[________]. 1980. The Limerick. . . ., as Bawdy Limericks.
"Canada: Poplar Press" [Rexdale, Ontario, Coles Pub. Co.] 8vo. Unauthorized
reprint.
_________1980. The New Limerick ... as More Limericks. New
York: Bell Pub. Co.
[________]. 1981. The New Limerick ... as Lusty Limericks.
"Canada: Poplar Press" [Rexdale, Ontario: Coles Pub. Co.]. 8vo. Unauthorized
reprint; the same text issued in 8 pts., 16mo, as The Pink [Red,
etc.] Book of Limericks. Both forms omit the Introduction, Notes,
etc.
________. 1982. Rationale of the Dirty Joke ... as No Laughing
Matter. (First & Second Series.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
2 vols. 8vo.
________. 1983. "In the Time of Masturbation" See under:
KOUKOULÈS.
_________1989. Russian Bawdy Songs. Maledicta (Waukesha, Wisc.,
announced 1989 as forthcoming.) With translation and discussion of the
Russian 18th-century erotic folk-recitation "Now Let Us Preach, and Sing a
Song," with assistance of James L. RICE. See also: KABRON-SKY; KRAUSS;
SPINKLER; STERN-SZANA; Folklore de la Grande Russie; Luka Mudishchev;
Mejdou Druziami; and Introduction by G. Legman to A. N. AFANASYEV 1968,
Russian Secret Tales (New York: Brüssel).
________, ed. 1990. Roll Me In Your Arms, and Blow the Candle
Out: The "Unprintable" Ozark Folksongs (and Folklore). Collected by
Vance RANDOLPH. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, (forthcoming). 2
vols., 4to.
________. Songs of Sadism and Lust, "by G. Legman" [!] See under
title.
________. 1953? Specimens of Folklore from the Files of G. Legman.
[Salt Lake City, Utah: Kenneth Larson] 4to, mimeographed. (Copies: Indiana
University Folklore Archives; Idaho State University Archives, Pocatello,
Idaho; and Library of Congress Folklore Archive, as The Folklore Trade.)
Unauthorized prepublication of material (46 texts) from my Ballad
Unexpurgated MS files, or personal archive of about 10,000 song and
ballad texts collected. Compare: The Ballast Value, above; and
BARONS. See also: Introductions by G. Legman to FARMER; KOUKOULÈS; McCOSH;
Burns's Merry Muses of Caledonia (1966 type-facsimile); The
Private Case; The New Limerick; and especially to RANDOLPH 1990,
"Roll Me In Your Arms."
_________1990. Tumble O'Lynn's Farewell. Journal of American Folklore
103:68-71. The first AIDS folksong (California, ca. 1987), with
the music, "Packington's Pound," dated 1560.
________. 1990. "Unprintable" Folklore? The Vance Randolph Collection.
Journal of American Folklore 103:259-300. Abridged version of
Introduction to RANDOLPH 1990, "Roll Me In Your Arms," with added
list of References Cited.
[LEHMANN-NITZSCHE, Robert pseud. "Victor BORDE."]. 1910. Neue
Parallelen zum "Streit der Jungfrauen." Anthropophytéia 7:374. On the
vaginal bragging-song known in English as "The Whoorey Crew." See: MÜLLER-,
SCHNABEL; and SCHWAAB.
________. 1923. La Plata Folklore. Leipzig. (Anthropophytéia;
Beiwerke, vol. 8.) 4to. Argentine-Spanish erotic folklore and
folk-poetry, with German translation; the outstanding work. Compare: CELA;
JIMÉNEZ; MICHEL; and Literatura popular erótica.
LELEGOS, Michael. 1868-69. Demotikè Anthologia. Athens. (Copy:
Library of the Sorbonne, Paris.) Modern Greek folk-poetry and songs,
including a brief erotic section of "Priapeia." (This section
reprinted alone 1974: Athens.) Compare: KOUKOULÈS; PETROPOULOS; SANDERS; and
Gamo-Tragouda ("Fuck-Songs," 1981), giving a few recently collected
pieces.
LENOIR, Maurice. 1926. Chansons de Salle de Garde, choix fait par le
Dr. Maurice Lenoir. Illustré par P. Cork. (Tirage limité — strictement
réservé au Corps Médical.) Paris: Collection du Carabas, Les Presses
Modernes. 210 pp., 8vo. (Copy: M. Léon Guichard, acc. Staub, 1:217.)
The first signed "medical" collection of the bawdy "Chansons de Salle de
Garde, " q.v., of French medical students and others. Compare: BERNARD;
DOMINIQUE; MARTY; STAUB; and TILLOT.
LEONHARDT, Wilhelm. 1910. Liebe und Erotik in den Uranfangen der
deutschen Dichtkunst. Dresden: R. Kraut. 183 pp., 8vo. Interestingly
reviewed by F. S. Krauss 1911 in Anthropophytéia 8:500-501; and
supplemented by the following.
________. 1911. Die beiden ältesten Skatologika der deutschen Literatur.
Anthropophytéia 8:400-406. Verse items from Hroswitha's "Passion of
St. Gongolf" (A.D. 975), and "Salomon und Morolf " (A.D. 1200), with
glossarial notes on Old German terms.
Library L'Amour. c. 1930. "London: Pickadilly Press" [Detroit,
Mich.: McClurg]. 12 pts. in 4 vols., 12mo. (Copy: G. Legman.) A reissue of
McClurg's Bibliothèque Erotique, q.v.
Il Libretto Rosso dell'Universitario: Raccolta di commedie, drammi,
baílate, cazzate, sproloqui, e Canti Goliardici. 1968. [Edited by
Alfredo CASTELLI? Ferrara.] Reprinted 1972? [Bologna?] 152 pp., 16mo.
(Copies: Giuliano Averna, Lido-Venice; G. Legman.) The modern breakthrough
collection of Italian student bawdy verse and obscœna, similar to the French
students' Chansons de Salles de Garde, q.v. Compare: PITRÈ; CORSO;
BRIVIO; and CASTELLI 1974, Canti Goliardici, No. 2, which is the
second series of the present Libretto.
The Limerick: 1700 Examples, etc. 1953. Paris: Les Hautes Études.
G. LEGMAN, ed. q.v. Reprinted 1970, New York, with 66-page historical
Introduction. Many further reprints and piracies. Note: Not included in the
present collection strictly as folksongs, but are considered recitations or
even non-orally transmitted folklore. See, for all the classic examples, the
above work, The Limerick; and its second series, The New Limerick
(More Limericks), edited by G. LEGMAN, New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.,
1977, and the extensive bibliographies in these two collections. More recent
examples, and the ongoing literature, mostly bawdy, are best covered by the
Fifth Line Society, q.v., and The Pentatette (formerly
Limerick Sig), a computer-printout monthly journal and bibliography
edited by Arthur DEEX (Box 365, Moffett, Calif, 1980 ff.) for MENSA members.
See also: SEBEOK. Ave atque vale!
LINDSAY, H. A. 1957. The Bastard from the Bush. Quadrant 5:65-67.
On the favorite Australian bawdy "mucker-pose" recitation, now making
certain headway in America, being reprinted in part in X. J. Kennedy's 1981
magnificent Tygers of Wrath (University of Georgia Press, Athens,
Ga.), an anthology of invective in verse, pp. 273-274, under "Bagman
O'Reilly's Curse."
LINDSAY, Jack. 1958. Life Rarely Tells. London. Autobiography of
an outstanding Australian literary editor, with some notes on bawdy song.
LINGENFELTER, Richard E., et al. 1968. Songs of the American West.
Berkeley: University of California Press. Cowboy songs, not entirely
expurgated. Compare: FIFE; and LOGSDON.
"LINTON, E. R." See: Edward B. CRAY.
Literatura popular erótica de Andalucía. 1884. Kryptádia
2:223-251. Erotic riddles-in-rhyme and coplas, pp. 228-241. Compare:
BORDE; CELA; also JIMÉNEZ; and LEHMANN-NITZSCHE.
LLOYD, Albert L. 1967. Folk Song in England. London: Lawrence &
Wishart; New York: International Pubs. Pocket reprint 1969, Panther.
Excellent conspectus, with several unexpurgated but not-too-graphic
historical songs.
Locker Room Humor. It's a Million Laughs. 1958. Toronto? cover
title, 176 pp., 16mo. (Copy: G. Legman.) Miscellany of semi-bawdy humor,
with "Poems and Limericks," pp. 60-71, 160. See also: Bar Room Tales,
an inferior sequel; The Brown [etc.] Book of Locker-Room Humor, a
later Canadian continuation series; and New Locker Room Humor.
Compare: CURRAN; NEWBERN; and Jest on Sex.
LOGAN, W. H. 1869. A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs.
Edinburgh. Reprinted 1968, Detroit: Singing Tree Press. Compare: HINDLEY.
LOGSDON, Guy. 1989. "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing," And Other
Songs Cowboy s Sing. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. With
excellent bibliography. Comprises 59 erotic songs, mostly from a repertory
of over 100 cowboy songs recollected from 1905 to 1925, tape-recorded and
transcribed in 1969 by retired cowboy Riley NEAL, then age 79, for Guy
LOGSDON, at Payson, Arizona. The erotic songs sent in typewritten
transcription, without tunes, supplied later. Logsdon notes: "Actually, he
was less concerned with melody in all of his singing — the words and stories
were more important." Note: This is the only unexpurgated cowboy song
collection. Compare: FIFE; LINGENFELTER; THORP; and the John A. Lomax
MSS.
[LOGUE, Christopher]. Count Palmiro Vicarion [pseud.] 1956.
Book of Bawdy Ballads. Paris: Olympia Press [Maurice
Kahane-Girodias]. 126 pp., 8vo. (PC. 1041, reprint dated 1961.) Bad
selection with outrageous music, the texts ruthlessly rewritten. See also:
BOLD; BRAND; CRAY; LAYCOCK; and SILVERMAN for the would-be humorous
Introduction.
LOMAX, Alan. 1960. The Folk Songs of North America. New York:
Doubleday. Excellent socioanalytic and psychological headnotes, but as with
all the Lomax popular collections, texts are conflated, revised, and
expurgated by means of "judicious selection." Compare: KENNEDY; and
SANDBURG.
LOMAX, John A. 1900 ff. John A. Lomax MSS. Collected at various
locations in the United States. Repositoried in the Barker Archives,
University of Texas Library, Austin, these MSS include a small "Inferno"
section of bawdy songs (Box A/9-152 "Bawdy"), which is now even smaller than
originally, as it has in part been "misplaced" by unknown hands at some date
after 1957 when all the materials were transcribed and tape-spoken for the
present research by D. K. Wilgus and Austin Fife. The Kinsey-ISR archives'
folk-art files at Indiana University have similarly been looted since 1963,
when they were displayed to me, much more complete than at present, by the
curator Mrs.Christenson, just before being catalogued. Materials from the
John A. Lomax MSS. are cited in the present work with the kind
permission of Alan Lomax.
________. 1947. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter. New York:
Macmillan. Colorful reminiscences, but no discussion or awareness of his
riotous editorial manhandling, rewriting, and purifying collected materials
before publication. See preceding item.
Lost Limericks and Bar Room Ballads. 1949. [Roy LAVENDER, ed.]
World Science Fiction Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio. (3), 69 pp., 4to,
mimeographed. (Copies: Samuel Moscowitz Science Fiction Fanzine Collection,
Roseville, N.J.; G. Legman.) Valuable collection of folk-verse and obscœna,
"mimeographed from stencils cut by many persons," according to the editor,
who states that this is the "third and much revised edition." Note: Not to
be confused with Lusty Limericks and Bawdy Ballads, by "Dick Harde,"
below.
Love-Poems and Humorous Ones. 1874. F. J. Furnivall, ed., Ballad
Society, No. 11. 24 pp. MS dated 1619, in British Museum Library, C.39.a.l-5.
LOWENHERZ, Jack. See: The Tenth Muse Lately Hung Up.
LOWENSTEIN, Wendy. 1974. Shocking, Shocking, Shocking: The Improper
Play-Rhymes of Australian Children. Melbourne: Fish & Chip Press. The
first unexpurgated handling of children's rhymes in English, replacing the
Opies' uncourageous work. Compare: McCOSH; SUTTON-SMITH; and especially
TURNER; also BORNEMAN; and WOLFENSTEIN.
LUEDECKE, Hugo E. 1907, 1911. Grundlagen der Skatologie.
Anthropophytéia 4:316-328 and 8:373—374. Scatologie verse including
graffiti and whorehouse songs.
Luka Mudishchev. 1969. (at head: Ivan BARKOV.) 2e Isdanie.
"Moskva: Izdatelstvo TSK-KLSS Gospolitizdat" [London School of Economics;
Coulsdon, Surrey: Special Service, "Hexton House," Herts.] 80 pp., 32do (11
X 6.7 cm.). Aside from the title page ascription to Barkov (1732-68), this
bawdy Russian ballad in the style of the sex-hate recitation "Eskimo Nell"
is also attributed to Aleksandr Pushkin and more probably to Pushkin's
successor in Byronic poetry, Mikhail Y. LERMONTOV (1814—41), who "wrote a
fair quantity of obscene verse privately for his pals at the cadets' school
when he was about 18." Text was apparently supplied by the Joint Services
School for Linguistics, at Coulsdon, Surrey. Poem is first referred to in
SPINKLER 1913, Gross-Russische erotische Volkdichtung. Anthropophytéia
10:353, q.v. The present vest-pocket edition produced as an
exhibitionistic joke, to demonstrate the technical ability and matériel of
the Allied Subversion and Sabotage propaganda services in London, on their
purposeful "blowing of cover" after the Kim Philby espionage defection. It
is a remarkable imitation of Soviet Government Printing House typography,
using various sorts of Cyrillic type, satirically including phoney reviews
from Pravda, Izvestia, etc., and faked publicity photos of
high-ranking Russian political leaders and secret-service heads
enthusiastically plugging the poem! Compare: Gregory-Boomer-Fouff;
also KABRONSKY; KRAUSS; and SPINKLER.
Lusty Limericks & Bawdy Ballads. 1956. Compiled and edited by
"Dick HARDE" [pseud. of Walter BREEN and Robert BASHLOW.] New York?
(1), 49 f., 4to, mimeographed. (Copies: Kinsey-ISR; G. Legman.) Ballads, f.
35-49. Note: Not to be confused with Lost Limericks & Bar Room Ballads,
above, as seems to have been the editors' intention. The senior editor
here also uses the pseudonym "J. Z. Eglinton."
Lyra Ebriosa: Being certain narrative ballads of a vulgar or popular
character and illustrative of the manners of the times. 1930. With
Appendix. [Littleton M. WICKHAM, ed. Norfolk, Va.: Gilpin Withers.] 31 pp.,
8vo. (Only repository copy: University of Kentucky Library.) Issued
privately for members of the University of Virginia secret society "Eli
Banana." Includes two original songs, "The Master Betas" and "The Dancing
Girl" (by one of the members, G. Coleman Reedy), of which "The Master Betas"
immediately entered oral circulation in men's college fraternity beer-bust
singing. The "Appendix," pp. 26-31, is Mark Twain's "1601," in
the old-style spelling of the edition secretly printed at the West Point
Military Academy Press by Charles Erskine Scott Wood.
La Lyre gaillarde. See: La Joie du Pornographe.
The Lyre of Lord Byron. 1840. "Scotland: D. McVitia." 96 pp.,
12mo. (PC. 1085) "Operative Music with Ladies of Rank and Fashion . . .
Lectures on the Hairy Harp at E*** College; Using his Musical Faculties,
with Tit-Bits, Opera Dancers, Actresses and other Ladies of Fashion, Rank
and Folly." With apocryphal ascription to Byron, compare following which is
attributed to Pushkin. Lyuka Mudishchev. See: Luka Mudishchev.
MABBOTT, Thomas O. See Thomas CHATTERTON.
MACCOLL, Ewan, and Peggy SEEGER. 1977. Travellers' Songs from England
and Scotland. London: Routledge. xii, 387 pp., 8vo. Splendidly edited,
this collection of British Gypsy songs is the first unexpurgated scholarly
work on folksongs ever published in England: note the date. Reprint, 1977.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Compare: SEEGER.
"MACKAY, Arthur." See: Immortalia, "Karman Society [1959]."
MACKENZIE, W. Roy. 1928. Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia.
Cambridge, Mass. Reprinted 1968, Detroit. With Cox (q.v.), the best
researched of the Harvard ballad collections inspired by George Lyman
Kittredge. Compare: HUGILL; FOWKE; GREENLEAF; and PEACOCK.
MACMILLAN, Keith, and Hugh OLIVER. 1980. The American Limerick Book.
New York: Beaufort Books. Compare: MCGREGOR.
Madden Ballads. Collection of over 25,000 printed broadside
ballads, mostly 18th century, collected by Sir Frederic MADDEN, d.
1873, Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum, which also has enormous
holdings of English broadside ballads. Now repositoried at Cambridge
University Library, and published only in very minor part. See: HOLLOWAY and
BLACK; Bagford Ballads; Pepys Ballads; Roxburghe Ballads.
[MAIDMENT, James.] 1824. A North Countrie Garland. Edinburgh.
Reprinted 1884 and 1891, Edinburgh: Goldsmid. Erotic Scottish folksongs.
Compare: Charles K. SHARPE; and Merry Muses.
[________]. 1837. The Duchess of Portsmouth's Garland. [Edinburgh:
Maidment]. xvi p., 4to. (PC. 596) Erotic 17th-century verse, in supplement
to Maidment's Ane Pleasant Garland (1835), q.v.
[________]. 1868? A Packet of Pestilential Pasquils. Edinburgh:
Wm. Paterson, 31 pp., 8vo. A private supplement of the unexpurgated
specimens omitted from Maidment's 1868 A Book of Scottish Pasquils,
itself a supplement to his 1868 Scotish Ballads and Songs, historical and
traditionary and 1827-28 Scotish Pasquils or lampoons.
MAIER, F. J. W. 1911. Schön Malchen. Anthropophytéia 8:373. German
soldiers' scatological marching-song. Compare: SCHRECKER.
Maledicta. The International Journal of Verbal Aggression. 1975.
Reinhold AMAN, ed. Waukesha, Wisconsin. Yearbook of verbal-sadistic and
erotic linguistics and folklore, continuing Krauss's Kryptádia and
Anthropophytéia, but in the more violent taste of our Götterdämmerung
(translation: God-damned) times. Ten volumes published by 1990.
[MALRAUX, André]. 1926. La Quintessence satyrique du XXe siècle.
Composée de poèmes de quel-ques-uns des meilleurs esprits de ce temps qui ne
figureront point dans leurs œuvres. Paris. 2 vols., 4to. (Enfer 1465;
G. Legman.) Edited and privately issued by André MALRAUX: see PIA, Les
Livres de l'Enfer, col. 1126-1127. Compare: POULET-MALASSIS' Parnasse
Satyrique; E. D. BERNARD'S Les Filles de Loth; APOLLINAIRE; and
GAUTIER.
The Mantua-Makers: A Poem. 1949. From an undated broadside,
circa 1700. Lexington, Kentucky? 4 pp., 16mo. (Copy: University of
Kentucky Library, which may also be the source of this lighthearted reprint,
one of the last such erotic broadsides published in America; but compare the
following.)
Marie. (Tu sortiras de ma maison). c. 1945? Paris? 6 f., obl.8vo,
with music and amateur illustration, lithoprinted. (Copy: G. Legman.) Bawdy
Chanson de Salle de Garde, not in most collective editions. One of a
rare type of French private issues of single broadside bawdy songs,
variously printed at least since the 1870s, often by amateur printers.
(Compare: TILLOT.) Sometimes professionally illustrated and produced as
favors at private club banquets or for private distribution by
pharmaceutical companies to favored physician clients. Ab uno disce
omnes.
Marines in the Marianas. 1948. Mariana Islands: U.S. 9th Marine
Battalion. (33) pp., 4to, mimeographed. (Copy: Kinsey-ISR.) Untitled, the
title given here being added in the Kinsey Institute copy. Begins, p. (1):
"Lou the Schoolteacher" [i.e., "Our LIL"]. Dated, p. (28) in a mock-official
"Application for a Date with a Marine," given as at "Headquarters, 9th
Marines, Fleet Marine Force, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif."
Contents: half songs, half private erotic storiettes.
MARQUIS, Don. 1929. Ode to Hollywood. Los Angeles? Privately
Printed. See: G. Legman 1975, No Laughing Matter vol. 2:507; and
compare: FICKE; GUTHRIE; and TWAIN.
MARTIAL, Marcus Valerius. (1st Century A.D.) 1868. The Index
Expurgatorius Martialis, literally translated; comprising all the
Epigrams hitherto omitted by English translators. London: Printed for
Private Circulation [J. C. Hotten?]. xi, 139 pp., 8vo. (PC. 1123-1124; NYPL,
3*). Translated by Edward Sellon, George Augustus Sala, and Frederick P.
Pike, authors also of Cythera's Hymnal, q.v., which successfully
attempts to outdo Martial. Later complete translations of Martial's
Epigrams into English also exist, particularly that by Mitchell S. Buck
(1928 Philadelphia: Nicholas Brown). Compare: Priapeia and FOUREST.
An interesting key to Martial's erotic epigrams, done on a different
pattern, also exists in the rare work [by Éloi JOHAN-NEAU] 1834,
Epigrammes contre Martial, ou Les Mille et une drôleries, sottises et
platitudes de ses traducteurs, ainsi que les castrations qu'ils lui ont
fait subir, mises en parallèle entre elles et avec le texte, par Un Ami de
Martial (Paris: Johanneau).
MARTIAL d'Auvergne, called "Martial de Paris." 1731. Arresta Amorum.
(Translated as:) Les Arrêts d'Amours, avec l'Amant rendu Cordelier à
l'observance d'amours. Accompagnez de Commentaires Juridiques et Joyeux
de Benoît de COURT. [Editor: Lenglet-Dufresnoy. ] Amsterdam. On this type of
formalized legal humor see further: Benoît COURT 1593, Formulaire fort
recréatif de "Bredin le Cocu," also ascribed to the anagrammatic
"Benoist du Troncy," reprinted 1958 Monte-Carlo: Solar.
A Martial Medley: Fact and Fiction. 1931. [Edited by Eric
PARTRIDGE.] London: Scholartis Press/ Eric Partridge. The editor's own
article in this symposium, "From Two Angles," by "Corrie Denison" [pseud.],
pp. 59-102, includes World War I soldiers' songs. Compare: BROPHY; and
IRWIN.
MARTLING, Jackie. 1984. Raunchy Riddles. New York: Pinnacle Books.
186 pp., 16mo. One-line gags revamped into bawdy riddles and verse by a
professional nightclub comedian. Sequel: More Raunchy Riddles (1985)
154 pp. Compare: McCOSH.
MARTY, Dr. Luc. 1974. La Chanson à l'Internat des Hôpitaux de
Montpellier. Montpellier. (Doctorat-en-Médecine thesis.) 182 pp., 8vo,
reproduced from typewriting. First serious study of medical students' bawdy
Chansons de Salles de Garde, q.v. Compare: STAUB; and LENOIR.
MASCHERI, Nino. 1973. I Piu' volgari canti studenteschi. Ristampa
non autorizzata de "I Canti Goliardici." Milano: Edizioni
Studio-sette. See: CASTELLI; BRIVIO; and Il Libretto Rosso.
MASTERSON, James R. 1942. Tall Tales of Arkansas. Boston: Chapman
& Grimes. Courageous openly published work, giving for the first time in
America in this way unexpurgated materials in prose and verse, particularly
in the notes, pp. 182-185, 352-358, and 390-393. Compare: CHAPPELL, Louis;
and FAUSET.
MAUREPAS, Jean-Fr. Phélypeaux, Comte de. 1868. Recueil dit de
Maurepas: Pièces libres, chansons, épigrammes, et autres vers satiriques.
"Leyde, 1865" [Bruxelles: Jules Gay]. 6 vols., 16mo. (Enfer 1313;
G. Legman.) Predated, the paper being watermarked "G1868." Edited
anonymously by Anatole de MONTAIGLON for the Paris publisher, Janet's
classics series, but refused as too risky. Includes all the erotic songs and
poems of the great Recueil Clairambault-Maurepas (MS 1715-1781:
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris). The nonerotic pieces were later published as
Chansonnier historique du XVIIIe siècle (1879-84, edited by Émile
Raunié, Paris). First collected by Pierre de CLAIRAMBAULT (MS in 20 vols.),
and enlarged to 42 vols. by the Comte de MAUREPAS, minister of state to King
Louis XV of France, during 35 years of exile because of a satirical couplet
he had written on the gonorrhea of the king's mistress, Mme. de Pompadour.
Habent sua fata libelli. Raunié's valuable 100-page Preface notes,
pp. 88-94, that his edition omitted not only all the "parodies et chansons
par trop licencieuses," but also all the scrupulously transmitted
tune-indications as "dépourvues d'intérêt au point de vue historique"!
Compare: CHAPPELL (1893, Wooldridge, ed.), which similarly omits
everything "merely traditional." See also: JAMET le Jeune; and Les Muses
en belle humeur, 1742.
McATEE, Waldo Lee. 1946. Grant County, Indiana, Speech and Song.
Vienna, Virginia. Privately Printed. 1946 Supplement 1: Folk Speech.
(3) pp. 1946. Supplement 2: Folk Verse. 6 pp. 1954. Supplement 4:
On Grant County, Indiana, Dialect. (3) pp., 8vo. (Copies: Library of
Congress, MS Division, with McAtee MSS.) Very valuable personal
memory record. All the Supplements listed contain erotic songs or
song-scraps from recollection of materials learned in the 1890s. The Library
of Congress MS Division has a large collection of McAtee's professional
correspondence, etc., including one envelope of personal erotic
elucubrations in verse of no great interest.
MCCARTHY, Tony. 1972. Bawdy British Folk Songs. London: Wolfe. 127
pp., 16mo. 60 tunes and mildly erotic texts without source indicated, but
extremely similar to the same songs in the Sharp and Hammond MSS as
published by PURSLOW, q.v.
McCLURE, John. 1943. The Stag's Hornbook. 2d edition enlarged,
edited by William Rose Benêt. New York: Knopf. Milk-and-water "stag" poems
for the Kahlil Gibran audience's Saturday nights out. Original edition,
1918, for World War I armed services.
McCLURG. c. 1928-30. (Detroit, Mich.) See: Bibliothèque
Erotique; Diary of a French Stenographer; Library L'Amour; and Poems,
Ballads, and Parodies, all c. 1928-30. Much of this sub-rosa
publisher's poetic output seems to have been written by himself, in the hobo
folk-style. Among other peculiarities, he occasionally mocked his own
apocryphal title page imprints of "London" with a small typographical union
"bug" at the bottom of the page, clearly marked "Detroit, Michigan."
McCORMICK, Mack. 1964. The Unexpurgated Folk Songs of Men.
Berkeley, Calif: International Blues Record Club. 4to. Booklet of texts and
discussion accompanying a phonograph record (see: DISCOGRAPHY, later),
originally intended as a tape-recording for the present work.
McCOSH, Sandra. 1979. Children's Humour: A Joke for Every Occasion.
London: Panther/Granada. 336 pp., 16mo. With a 40-page Introduction by
G. LEGMAN. Parodies, songs, and verse, pp. 143-164, the rest of the text
being devoted to tales and jokes. This is the first open publication in
English of the unexpurgated folklore of children, other than rhymes. (See
also: BORNEMAN; GAIGNEBET; HOWARD; KNAPP; LOWENSTEIN; TURNER; WITHERS;
WOLFENSTEIN; and MARTLING.) Announced for publication in 1976-77, but
delayed owing to a change of publishers because of objection to Legman's
Introduction, final section, "The Secret Lore of Children: The Attack on the
Child."
MCGREGOR, Craig [pseud.?]. 1972. Bawdy Ballads and Sexy
Songs. New York: Belmont/Tower Books. Editing of this derivative pocket
collection is attributed to the well-known Canadian folksong specialist,
Keith MacMillan, q.v.
McLEAN, William. 1970. Iconographie populaire de l'érotisme.
Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. With fabulous photographs of French graffiti
illustrations, on which see also: G. H. LUQUET (1910-11), in
Anthropophytéia vols. 7-8; Rennie ELLIS and Ian TURNER, Australian
Graffiti (1975, Melbourne: Sun Books); The Merry-Thought; and
READ, below.
McWILLIAM, James. 1961. College and Western Folksongs. MS,
Berkeley, Calif Transcript of tape-recording of bawdy college songs supplied
to G. Legman for the present work.
MEADE, Guthrie. 1958. The Sea Crab. Midwest Folklore 8:91-100.
Historical tracing of this bawdy English folksong; on Meade's sources see
further G. Legman, The Horn Book, pp. 188 and 414.
Medulla Facetiorum: complectens epigrammata jocosa et salsa de
qualicunque Venere, feminis et vino. E farragine scriptorum latinorum
classici, medii et recentioris œvi selecta . . . per Immanuelem Sincerum
juniorem [pseud.]. 1863. Stuttgart: Ed. Fischhaber. 93
pp., 16mo. (PC. 1137; G. Legman.) See also Priapeia; Erotopœgnion,
KÜHLEWEIN; and MARTIAL.
Mejdu Druziami [Among Friends]: Smiechnyia i pikantnyia
shtuki domachnich poetov Rossii. Piervoye polnoye izdaniye. [c.
1880. "Cargrad: Simonius magazinie, Galata." "Constantinople": really
Geneva?] 190 pp., 12mo. (Copy: Enfer 85; microfilm, NYPL, Slavonic
Division; UCLA, Folklore and Myth Center.) Presumably the supplement of
erotic art-and folk-poetry promised by A. N. AFANASYEV in the preface to his
anonymous Russkiya Zavetniya Skazki [Russian Secret Tales; c.
1872, Geneva], here edited by his friend and literary executor or legatee,
SOLDATENKOV.
________. c. 1885. Same, Second Series, as Yumor
Russkago naroda v skazkach. "Cargrad" [Constantinople?]. 140 pp., 12mo.
(Copy: Leningrad Library.) Not seen. Listed in Introduction, p. xi, by V.
Hnatjuk (Gnatjuk) to Pavlo Tarasevskyi 1909, Das Geschlechts-leben des
Ukrainischen Bauernvolkes, vol. 1 (Anthropophytéia: Beiwerke,
vol. 3). Presumably also edited by SOLDATENKOV.
Mélanges de Bulgarie. 1899. Kryptádia 6:164—177.
Sephardi-Jewish (Ladino) erotic songs and parodies, from Bulgaria, with
French translation; includes bawdy macaronics, pp. 170-177, based on
Biblical and Talmudic phrases. Compare: Samuel Armistead and Jos. Silverman
1974?, Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press).
Memorandum. See: GOODWIN.
MÉON, D. M. See: Blasons.
MEREDITH. John. Australian Folk Songs. (Tape-recording collection,
repositoried in National Library, Canberra, Australia, before 1972.)
Includes Meredith's extensive erotic field collections, which remain
unpublished. Compare following.
_________1958. Bawdy Bush Ballads. Meanjin (Melbourne, Australia,
December 1958) 17: [no. 75]:379-386. Meredith's own extensive collection of
these autochthonous Australian erotic materials is listed in part by title
in Peter Kennedy 1975, Folksongs of Britain, Note 183, but remains
unpublished in tape-recording form: see preceding item.
________, and Hugh ANDERSON. 1967. Folk Songs of Australia, and the
Men and Women who sang them. Sydney: Ure Smith. Meredith's expurgated
published collection. Compare the two preceding items here; also Ron
EDWARDS; and Brad TATE.
MERLING, Susanna. 1909. Lieder aus Tirol und Voralberg.
Anthropophytéia 6:396-398. From an elderly lady who learned these erotic
songs sixty years before. Compare: Rayna GREEN.
Merry Drollery, or A Collection of Jovial Poems, Merry Songs, Witty
Drolleries, Intermixed with Pleasant Catches. 1661. London. Revised
edition, 1670. (Copy: Bodleian Library.) Reprinted 1875, as Merry
Drollery Compleat, J. Woodfall Ebsworth, ed.; Boston, Lines. See further
under: Choyce Drollery, as to "Supplement of Reserved Songs from
Merry Drollery, 1661," issued with that later reprint.
The Merry Muses of Caledonia . . . Selected for use of the Crochallan
Fencibles. 1799. [Edinburgh? Peter Hill? 1800.] 127 pp., sq. 12mo. The
later pages are watermark-dated: 1800. (Only two copies are known to
survive: one pœnes Lord Rosebery, with the date shaved off in
binding; the other recently discovered by Bertram Rota, bookseller in
London, now owned by G. Ross Roy, University of South Carolina.) Scottish
erotic folksongs; compiled from letters and other documents from Robert
BURNS to members of the Crochallan Fencibles, a men's mock-revolutionary
drinking club in Edinburgh. For the fate of Burns's actual MS collection of
erotic folksongs, sold on Burns's deathbed to the banker, James Gracie, of
Dumfries, see G. Legman 1964, The Horn Book, "The Cunningham
Manuscript," pp. 131-169, and "The Merry Muses as Folklore," pp.
170-236. Burns's MS collection was apparently burned in 1871 as an act of
piety by the then-owner, a Mr. Greenshields of Lesmahago, who "made a
bonfire of them," as he bragged, "on broad moral ground ... so here ends the
matter." The matter, however, did not end there, because unknown to Mr.
Greenshields, banker Gracie's son had allowed the early Burns editor, Peter
Cunningham, to make a copy of Burns's MS "on about 19th Oct. 1815." (Now
preserved in British Museum Library, bound into the back of an edition of
The Merry Muses with imprint "Dublin: Printed for the Booksellers, Price
Three Shillings" [c. 1825], former callmark PC. 31.e.20, from
the collection of H. Spencer Ashbee, where I had the good fortune to
rediscover it in the spring of 1959.) The further songs in the Burns MS, not
printed in The Merry Muses of Caledonia, are all printed for the
first time in Legman, The Horn Book (1964), "The Cunningham
Manuscript," pp. 134-142. Note: None of the modern editions of The Merry
Muses of Caledonia listed below (or any other) gives the complete
contents of the first edition of 1800, except the type-facsimile edition
immediately following.
_________. 1965. Same. Type-facsimile, G. Legman, ed. New Hyde Park,
N.Y.: University Books. lxv, 326 pp., 8vo. With a complete bibliography of
all editions to date of The Merry Muses, and analysis of their
contents. Also prints the newly discovered songs from the Cunningham
Manuscript, as above.
_________. 1911. Same. [Duncan McNAUGHT, ed. Kilmarnock: Burns
Federation.] 135 pp. Reprinted c. 1930 Philadelphia: Nathan Young,
143 pp., 8vo, changing McNaught's signature to the Introduction from
"Vindex" to "Editor," and adding Burns's letter of phallic brag to Robert
Ainslie and a Scottish glossary. An excellent edition for its time, but now
supplanted by the following.
_________. 1959. Same. Edited by James Barke and Sydney Goodsir SMITH.
With . . . some authentic Burns's texts [from letters, etc.] contributed by
J. DeLancey FERGUSON. Edinburgh: M. Macdonald (Auk Society). Reprinted 1959,
New York: Gramercy; 1964, Putnam; 1965 London: W. H. Allen; pocket-reprint
1966, London: Panther. Actually edited by S. G. Smith, after Barke's
untimely death, and for the same reason Smith's fine Introduction (already
published in Arena, London, 1950, No. 4; and reprinted with
expurgations [!] in Hudson Review, New York, 1954, vol. 7) was not
used, being replaced by a new Introduction by Barke, mainly drivel. Smith's
notes to this edition are very valuable, and its outstanding contributions
are the MS texts supplied by Ferguson, some of which are printed nowhere
else. The most recent "standard" edition of Burns's Poems and Songs,
edited by James Kinsley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968) takes no significant
account of the Merry Muses poems and songs authentically written or
revised by Burns, and omits most of them.
________. 1872. "Same." Faked editions as: The Merry Muses
[omitting: of Caledonia]. "1827." [London: John Camden Hotten; the
last two digits of the real date are reversed.] Warning Note: All editions
omitting the words "of Caledonia" from the title have variously faked
and abridged texts. (See: Bibliography in type-facsimile edition by G.
Legman, New York, 1965.) The worst, and most badly faked and anglicized,
with much additional bawdy music-hall verse not collected by Burns, nor even
Scottish, are Hotten's "1827" edition and its dozen or more reprints, of
which the last (?) is dated 1930 facing the title page.
The Merry Musician, or A Cure for the Spleen. 1716. London. Late
drollery collection competing with Pills to Purge Melancholy.
The Merry-Thought, or The Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany.
1731. London. 4pts., 12mo. By "Hurlo-Thrumbo." (Bodleian Library, Oxford, W.
N. H. Harding Collection; incomplete copies, British Museum Library, and
Harvard University.) Usually known as The Bog-House Miscellany, this
is the original graffiti collection (but compare: Priapeia),
including verse and drawings taken, as the title states, from diamond
scratchings on tavern glass windows and writings on the walls of privies or
"bog-houses." The Merry-Thought is properly "the part of a chicken
that goes over the fence last." Not to be confused with the obscœna (but not
graffiti) collection, The New Boghouse Miscellany, or A Companion for the
Close-Stool (1761: copy, G. Legman), reissued with title expurgated to
The Wits' Miscellany in 1762. A probably similar Papers for the
W.C., printed on toilet paper, was issued in Leipzig, c. 1876,
but no copy is now known. Compare: Flushed!; McLEAN; and READ.
Mess Songs and Rhymes of the R.A.A.F., 1939-1945. Only ten
complete copies of this book have been issued, printed on paper, duplicated?
and bound in paper, Sisalcraft, bearing the musical key signature of the
compiler, and numbered 1 to 10. 1945 [Milne Bay?] New Guinea, September. v,
76 f., 4to, mimeographed. (Unique copy: Australian War Memorial Library;
photocopy, the late Donald Laycock, Canberra.) Royal Australian Air Force
bawdy songs and service gripes. The "musical key signature" on the title
page consists of a treble clef inscribed in the key of two sharps, with
notes A and D, a script L, and the word "Compiler."
"MEXICO, Robert De." [pseud. of Robert BRAGG.] See: Songs of
Sadism and Lust, etc.
[MEYER, Gustav]. 1888. Vierzeilen aus den Oesterreichischen Alpen.
Kryptádia 4:79-133. Erotic "Schnadahüpfeln" (273 four-liners)
from the Austrian Alps, the first published collection of the unexpurgated
texts. Compare: BLÜMML; HAND; and KRAUSS; also Das Wirtshaus an der Lahn.
Mezhau Druziami. See: Mejdu Druziami.
MICHEL, José Antonio. c. 1975. Versos picarescos mexicanos.
(Picardía en verso.) México: Costa-Amic, Editor. Compare: "BORDE"; JIMÉNEZ;
and Los Perfumes de Barcelona. Note: Thèse verses seem to be
originals written by Michel, rather than orally collected folksongs.
MILBURN, George. 1930. The Hobo's Hornbook. New York: Ives
Washburn. Outstandingly expurgated; in "Our LIL," p. 140, one stanza
consists entirely of asterisks! Compare: IRWIN; and GORDON, "Inferno" MS.
MILLER, Henry V. 1934. Tropic of Cancer. Preface by Anaïs Nin.
Paris: Obelisk Press [Jack Kahane & Anaïs Nin Guiler]. Reprinted 1940,
"México: Medvsa" [New York: Jacob Brüssel & G. Legman]; also New York: Grove
Press, 1961, et al. Section on Miller teaching at a junior college at Dijon
in 1932 gives scene of the teachers privately singing the necrophilic "La
Femme du Vidangeur," with chorus, "Cré nom de Dieu! on n'est jamais
content!" This and the two French songs in SILVERMAN, The Dirty Song
Book, are the most convenient sample available to Anglo-American readers
of the French students' bawdy Chansons de Salle de Garde, q.v. See
also the third item following.
Miscellanea of the Rymour Club. 1906-28. Edinburgh. 3 vols. in 4.
Children's rhymes, etc.
Mock Songs and Joking Poems. 1675. London: W. Birtch. (New York
Public Library; British Museum, Thomason Collection.)
Monôme. c. 1935. (Editor: "Jérôme Clandestin," pseud.) [No
place, publisher or date: the imprint given is a fig-leaf Lyon?] 144, xx pp.
with illustrations, and music, sm.4to. (Copies: Alain Kahn-Sriber, Paris; G.
Legman.) Rare edition of French students' bawdy Chansons de Salles de
Garde, q.v. The "Monôme" is the medical or art students' serpentine
parade on graduation, usually half-naked or in eccentric costume while
chanting these songs, and presumably followed by an orgy. See also:
Gaudeamus Igitur.
MONTEIRO, George. 1964. Parodies of Scripture, Prayers, and Hymns.
Journal of American Folklore 77:45-52. Enlarging a milder note on same
subject by Ray D. BROWNE, also in JAF 1959 72:94. Compare: McCLURG.
MONTGOMERIE, William. 1966. A Bibliography of the Scottish Ballad
Manuscripts, 1730-1825. Studies in Scottish Literature (edited by G.
Ross Roy) 4:3-28, and subsequent volumes. Important index including the
numerous Scottish folksong MSS collections not published because of the
eroticism of their contents. Compare: BUCHAN; and HERD.
________, and Norah. 1948. Sandy Candy, and other Scottish nursery
rhymes. London: Hogarth Press. Excellent compilation. Compare: OPIE.
[MORGAN, Harry]. Rugby Songs. See: Why Was He Born, as
below.
[________]. 1968. More Rugby Songs. London: Sphere Books. 159 pp.,
16mo. Continuation of
following item, and letter-expurgated like it. In part reprinted from
Camp Fire Songs, q.v.
[________]. 1967. Why Was He Born So Beautiful, and Other Rugby Songs.
London: Sphere Books. 187 pp., 16mo. Compiler's name appears only in
copyright notice. Texts are letter-expurgated with asterisks ("but not
otherwise"!) and in part rewritten and enlarged in the same bawdy vein.
Note: This work is not connected with the phonograph recording, The
Compleat Rugby Songs (London, c. 1977), giving wholly different
texts. See also: YATES; and Rugger Hugger presents . . .
MORRIS, Capt. Charles. 1788. A Complete Collection of Songs. 9th
edition. London. (PC. 1289-1291, with other editions.) Compare:
________. 1789. The Festival of Anacreon. Containing a Collection
of Modern songs ... by
Capt. MORRIS . . . Mr. HEWERDINE, etc. London. Bawdy drinking-house songs
in the taste of the period, closer to the later music-hall songs than to
folksongs.
[MORSE, A. Reynolds]. 1948. Folk Poems and Ballads: An Anthology . . .
A Collection of rare Verses and amusing Folk Songs compiled from scarce and
suppressed Books as well as from verbal Sources, which modern Prudery, false
Social Customs and Intolerance have separated from the public and historical
Record. With Commentary, Notes, and Sources. "Mexico City: The Cruciform
Press, 1945" [Cleveland, Ohio: A. R. Morse]. vi, 128 pp., 8vo. (PC. 722;
Kinsey-ISR; A. R. Morse; G. Legman.) Texts conflated and rewritten in part
by the editor. Companion-volume: The Limerick: A Facet of Our Culture,
"1944" [1948]. Both volumes were suppressed on publication by police
action, and are rare.
_________. 1984. Same. Waukesha, Wisc.: Maledicta Press. With a new
Introduction by the compiler, here named.
MÖSER, D. R. 1978. Erotik und Musik. Kritische Stichwörter zum
Musik-unterricht, hrsg. W. GIESELER (München) pp. 78-86.
MOTHERWELL, William. 1827. Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern.
Glasgow. Magnificently produced limited edition.
ΜOTTA, Marcelo RAMOS, and Aleister CROWLEY. 1981. The Equinox: The
Official Organ of the A.:. A.:., The Review of Scientific Illuminism, Vol.
V, No. 4: (March), O.S. Nashville, Tenn., Box 90144: Thelema Pub.
Co. (Jacket title: Sex and Religion, by Aleister CROWLEY: "The
Bagh-i-Muattar," etc.) Essentially a reprint of Crowley's legpull The
Scented Garden (Bagh-i-Muattar) of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz
[pseud.], "Edited by Major Alain Lutiy" [pseud.]. Privately issued in
Paris, 1911; in an edition of 100 (200?) copies, all but two of which were
destroyed by British Customs service on Crowley's return, on being expelled
from Cefalù, Sicily, in 1923. Also contains several other of Crowley's
obscœna, in prose and verse (parodying the Arabic homosexual wasf
style); plus Ida Craddock's suppressed Heavenly Bridegrooms, United
States, about 1899. The entire contents are riotously edited by the
publisher, Motta, along with extensive notes (all fortunately in italics to
set them off), and mock book reviews of his own, From a very up-to-date if
heavily mystical viewpoint. See also: CROWLEY.
MOYSE, Arthur. See: The Golden Convolvulus.
MUIR, Willa. 1965. Living with Ballads, London & New York: Oxford
University Press. The best and wisest book on ballad-style and
meaning. The chapters on "Singing and Listening to Oral Poetry" and "Magic:
Tam Lin" are an education in sensitivity in listening to the hidden voices
of folksong. Ends, p. 255, with a courageous plug for the main erotic
Scottish ballad of modern times, "The Ball o' Kirriemuir." Compare: Edith
FOWKE; and Sandra McCOSH.
MÜLLER, Paul. 1908. Zum Liede von den weiblichen Geschlechtstteilen
(Vom Streit der Jungfrauen). Anthropophytéia 5:155-156, and 1909,
6:398-399. Gives "Das schönste Nonnenlied" German versions of the vaginal
bragging-song known in English as "The Whoorey Crew" ("Three Old Whores from
Canada"), and posing the interesting question as to psychological
differences in erotic songs by women and by men. See: R. GREEN; LEHMANN;
SCHNABEL; SCHWAAB; and G. Legman, The Horn Book, pp. 206, 222,
414—415, and his "Russian Bawdy Songs" for an 18th-century Russian
version; also his Introduction to Vance RANDOLPH, "Roll Me In Your Arms,"
pt. 4, in Journal of American Folklore, 1990, 103:269-270.
_________1912. Schnadahüpfeln aus Franken. Anthropophytéia
9:454-455. Erotic German four-liners. Compare: BLÜMML; HAND; and KRAUSS.
_________1912. Studentenlieder aus Würzburg. Anthropophytéia
9:457-459.
Musarum Deliciœ, or The Muses Recreation. 1655. London. [Edited by
Sir John MENNIS & Dr. James SMITH.] 2d edition, 1656. Reprinted London
1873-74: [Pearson?], 2 vols., 16mo, including the same editors' Wit
Restor'd, 1658, and Wits' Recreations, 1640, with the curious
(rebuses, etc.) Fancies and Fantasticks. Important drollery
anthology. See earlier reprint at: Facetiœ.
Les Muses en belle humeur, ou Chansons et autres poésies joyeuses.
1742. "Ville Franche" [Vérets, Touraine: Private press of the Duc
d'Aiguillon]. xv, 260 pp. and errata leaf, 8vo. (PC. 1295; G. Legman;
Enfer 715, and 923-924 for a discussion of the secret press.) Very
rare work, printed in an edition limited to 12 copies, for members of the
secret orgy club, "Le Cosmopolite," and probably edited by J.-B. Willart de
GRÉCOURT and Paradis de MONCRIF. Important not only for its erotic songs but
for the date of publication, being the first secretly issued
anthology of erotic folksong, then finally if not wholly driven underground.
See further: G. Legman, The Horn Book, pp. 87-90, and 374-375. (Note:
The English work following, The Muse in Good Humour, 1745, is not a
translation of this songbook.) Compare: Recueil de Vaudevilles gaillards.
_________. c. 1745. Same. "Ville Franche, 1742" [Paris?]. xiv, 184
pp., 12mo. (PC. 1296; Bodleian, W. N. H. Harding Collection.) A piratical
reprint, made for envious nonmembers of the Cosmopolite. The title page
engraving, showing a Priapic dance-orgy, is reversed.
Les Muses en belle humeur, ou Élite de poésies libres. 1779. "A
Rome." 2 vols., 12mo. (PC. 1297) Not the same as the preceding collection,
though the songs are also erotic.
The Muse in Good Humour: A Collection of the best poems, comic tales,
choice fables, enigmas, riddles, etc. 1745. London. Not seen. (George
Daniel sale catalogue, no. 1157.) Reprinted, 1751-57, 2 vols. Mostly
tales-in-verse from Swift, etc.
La Muse Latrinale. 1899. Kryptádia 6:390-397. First
scientific graffiti collection, attributed to the departing co-editor
of Kryptádia, Gaston PARIS.
The Musical Miscellany. 1729-31. London. 6 vols., 12mo. Excellent
collection of current more-or-less bawdy art-and folksongs, competing with
the more famous Pills to Purge Melancholy.
My Bonny. 1950. (Tune.) [Ottawa, Ontario: Eastern Air
Command Reunion] 11 f. folio, mimeographed. (Copy: G. Legman.) In part a
reprint of the longer similar mimeographed songbook, North Atlantic
Squadron, q.v. See also: GETZ; HOPKINS; and STARR.
NADAL, Abbé Augustin. 1725. Sur l'Origine de la Liberté qu'avoient les
Soldats Romains de dire des Vers Satyriques contre ceux qui triomphoient.
Histoire des Vestales (Paris), pp. 332-386. (Copy: Ohio State University
Library, Legman Collection.) Important and little-known monograph on ancient
satirical and obscene soldiers' songs. See further the discussion of Nadal
in G. Legman, The Horn Book, pp. 384-387, and 408-409; and compare:
NISARD.
NEAL, Larry. 1968. And Shine Swam On. Black Fire: An Anthology of
Afro-American Writing, Leroi Jones and Larry Neal, eds. (New York: Wm.
Morrow), pp. 638-659. On the prototypical Negro "bad-ass toast" recitation,
"Shine, or The Titanic." Compare: ABRAHAMS; and especially JACKSON, Get
Your Ass . . .
NEAL, Riley. See: LOGSDON-NEAL, "The Whorehouse Bells."
NEALE, A. 1921. Twenty Red Hot Parodies on present song hits. New
York: [The Author]. 12mo, reproduced from typewriting. (Copy: G. Legman.)
One of several such off-color parody-books advertised in the Police
Gazette, 1921 (and earlier?) with the deathless line: "BE FUNNY . .
.50¢."
NETTEL, Reginald. 1956. Seven Centuries of Popular Song. London.
Deeply thought book. Music-halls to buskers and pop, pp. 172-235. Compare,
on the music-halls: SPEAIGHT; and SHEPARD.
The New Academy of Complements . . . With an Exact Collection of the
Newest and Choicest Songs à la Mode, Both Amorous and Jovial, Compiled by
the most refined Wits of this Age. 1669. London: Samuel Speed. 286 pp.,
16mo. (Folger Library, Washington, D.C.) Reprinted 1671 with the same songs,
but later works of similar title have entirely different contents. Disguised
as a drollery collection of "Songs à la Mode," but in fact an
important early anthology of folksongs, pp. 85-270. Compare: Pills to
Purge Melancholy.
[NEWBERN, John, and Peggy RODEBAUGH]. 1969. The World's Dirtiest
Jokes. Edited and compiled by Victor Dodson. [pseud..].
Los Angeles: Medco Books [Sherbourne Press]. 222 pp., 12mo. Miscellany of
prose and verse obscœna, parts expurgated from Newbern's Sex to Sexty
magazine series, q.v. Compare: CURRAN; Locker Room Humor; and Jest
on Sex.
New Frisky Songster. 1794. Peregrine Penis [pseud.].
London? With frontispiece. Not seen. (Geo. Daniel sale catalogue, 1864, no.
607.) Compare: The Frisky Songster.
New Locker Room Humor. 1960. Revised edition. Chicago: Burd Pub.
Co. 12mo. (Copy: Edward Cray, Los Angeles.) Prose and verse obscœna.
Compare: Locker Room Humor.
NICHOLS, Cranz. 1963. Bawdy and Obscene Folklore. [Austin, Tex.].
20 f., 4to, reproduced from typewriting. (Copies: Roger Abrahams; G. Legman;
R. Reuss.) Term paper submitted to Abrahams's folklore course. Entirely
composed of songs and riddles.
NICOLAI, Henri. See: The Boastful Yak.
NIEMOELLER, Adolph F. 1946. Sex Ideas in Popular Songs: A Study of the
strong sex innuendo in most popular song lyrics. Girard, Kansas:
Haldeman-Julius Pubs. (Big Blue Book, B-523.) 27 pp., 8vo.
Once-over-lightly. Compare: EGLIS; JOHNSON; SPAETH; TOBIASON; URDANG.
NILES, Abbe. 1924? Blue Notes. New Republic 45:292-293. Also other
very trenchant short columns and reviews by Niles in same journal and period
on expurgation of COLCORD'S sailor songs, etc. Compare: WILSON.
NILES, John Jacob, et al. 1929. The Songs My Mother Never Taught Me.
New York: Macaulay Co. Reprinted 1930?, New York: Gold Label Books.
Expurgated soldier songs, etc. Compare: BROPHY; and POSSELT; also Songs
My Mother Never Taught Me.
NISARD, Charles. 1867. Des Chansons populaires chez les Anciens et
chez les Français: Essai historique, suivi d'une étude sur la chanson des
rues contemporaine. Paris: Dentu. 2 vols., 12mo. Magistral study.
Compare: NADAL; SHEPARD; and the following.
NORMANDY, Georges. 1910? Les Chansonniers gaillards. Paris:
Michaud. 144 pp., 12mo.
NORTHALL, G. F. 1892. English Folk-Rhymes. London. Of particular
value. See: TALLEY.
North Atlantic Squadron. 1944. [Gander Bay, Newfoundland: Eastern
Air Command, Canadian Air Force] 24 pp. folio, mimeographed. (Copy: G.
Legman.) Typewriting stencil-style and size of paper change at p. 9. The
most important of the American war-song collections of World War II, but
compare: GETZ, HOPKINS; STARR; and abridged reprint as My Bonny.
"NOSTI" [pseud.] 1944. A Collection of Limericks. With
Commentaries, explanatory and critical, as well as geographical notes.
Privately Printed in Switzerland [Berne?]. (3)-111 pp., 16mo. Copy formerly
in the collection of Arpad Plesch; see Bibliothèque "La Leonina," by
Jacques Pley, Monte Carlo, 1955, "Curiosa": 3:22. Illiterate imitation of
Norman Douglas's Some Limericks (1928) by a person imperfectly
acquainted with the English language, but with interesting would-be humorous
notes giving folklore materials. Compare: All About Monte Carlo.
Note allègre: Canti popolari Napolitani. 1899. Kryptádia
6:88-102. Erotic Neapolitan songs. [Collected by Dr. Giuseppe PITRÈ, q.v.]
Compare: CORSO.
Nouveau Parnasse Satyrique. See: POULET-MALASSIS.
OHIO State University Sailing Club Song Book. c. 1962. [Columbus,
Ohio.] 4to, mimeographed (?) No copy known except one collected on 96 or
more typewritten sheets by Xenia BLOM, 1962, and preserved in the Indiana
University Folklore Archive, the sheets being scattered in the files by
bawdy and other song titles. This should be reconstituted again from the
files, as supplied. (Last items noted: "Just Because/What Makes," f. 75; "Me
Mudder/My Mother," f. 96.)
Old American Ballads. See: Death Rattlers.
OLIVER, Paul. 1968. Screening the Blues. London: Outstanding work
on the American Negro "blues," with wholly unexpurgated texts of these
entertainer-songs and discussion as "The Blue Blues," pp. 164-277. Compare:
OLIVER'S other volumes, Blues Fell This Morning (New York: Horizon
Press, 1961), and The Story of the Blues (1969); "Mezz" MEZZROW
[Milton Mesirow] and Bernard WOLFE, Really the Blues (1965?); also
TOBIASON below.
The ONE the ONLY Baker House Super-Duper Extra Crude Song Book.
See: Baker House.
One Potato, Two Potato. 1976. By Mary and Herbert KNAPP. New York:
Norton. Children's verse and lore. Compare: McCOSH; and TURNER.
OPIE, Iona, and Peter. 1951. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. Basic works on adult rhymes taught to children
in English, splendidly researched. Revised, 1953. A similar later
"derivative" work by William S. Baring-Gould covers all the same material,
but in non-alphabetical order. Compare: HALLIWELL; and KER.
________. 1959. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. Oxford:
Clarendon Press. Thoroughly expurgated by preselection of materials. See
further Introduction by G. Legman in McCOSH, Children's Humour;
compare: LOWENSTEIN; SUTTON-SMITH; and TURNER.
OPPELN-Bronikowski, Friedrich von. Deutsche Kriegund Soldaten-lieder:
Volk und Kuntsgesang, 1500-1900. 1911. München: Mörike. Nonerotic texts.
Supplemented by: MAIER; SCHRECKER; also cf. GETZ; BROPHY; HENDERSON;
HOPKINS; PAGE; and "POLSTERER," Militaría.
ORD, John. 1930. The Bothy Songs and Ballads of Aberdeen etc.
Paisley.
"ORPHEUS, Sir Oliver." See: Peter BUCHAN.
ORR, Cathy Makin, and Michael J. PRESTON. 1976. Urban Folklore from
Colorado: Typescript Broadsides. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Xerox University
Microfilms. (Research Abstracts, LD-69.) xii, 174 f., sm.4to, reproduced
from typewriting. Outstanding collection of "xeroxlore."
________. 1976. Same. With Louis M. BELL. Urban Folklore from
Colorado: Photocopy Cartoons. Volume 2 Ann Arbor, Mich.: Xerox
University Microfilms. (Research Abstracts, LD-79.) xi, 167 f., sm.4to,
reproduced from typewriting. The "xeroxlore" in pictorial form matching the
preceding volume. Compare: DUNDES and PAGTER; and Paul SMITH.
ORWELL, George [pseud. of: Eric BLAIR]. 1946. Dickens, Dali and
Others: Studies in Popular Culture. London. With a chapter on "Rudyard
Kipling," reprinted from Horizon, basic to the understanding of
subliterary folk-poetry and its audience.
OSTERMANN, Valentin. 1892. Villotte friulane: Appendice. Udine.
vii, 47 pp. Limited to 50 copies for private circulation. Erotic Italian
vilótis, or four-line dance songs (equivalent to the German-Austrian
Schnaderhüpfel) from Friuli near the Austrian border of Italy, as a
supplement to Ostermann's earlier magistral volumes on Friuli folklore.
Under the guise of a book review more than half of the text of this rare
"Appendix" is usefully reprinted by Johannes KOSTIÁL in Anthropophytéia
(1909) 6:469-482, giving the Italian songs with German translation. See
further: KOSTIÁL'S own Friuli supplement, in same, 6:389-396; CORSO; and
PITRÈ.
OSTWALD, Hans. 1910. Erotische Volkslieder aus Deutschland.
Berlin. Compare: BLÜMML; SCHIDROWITZ; and especially KRAUSS.
Oxford University, Oxford, England. ("House books" or
student-albums of poetry and similar, are kept and added to in manuscript at
most of the colleges at Oxford, as at other great universities in England
and at fraternity houses at colleges such as in Harvard (see: Fox Club)
in America. These often contain bawdy verse, sometimes original, and
topical satire, and are usually not available for public inspection. A study
of these "house books" and occasional private publications is long overdue,
and has never been undertaken. But see: REUSS; and Lyra Ebriosa; and
Sweet Violets; and college and armed-services mimeographica, such as
Camp Fire Songs.)
The Oyster. c. 1986. London. 3? vols. Recent uninspired imitation
of The Pearl (1880), in the form of an erotic miscellany magazine.
PAGE, Martin. 1973. Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major! The Songs and
Ballads of World War II.
London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon. 192 pp., 4to. British military songs
without expurgation, many from North African and Far Eastern theatres of
operation. Compare: GETZ; HENDERSON; HOPKINS; STARR; Camp Fire Songs and
Verse; and North Atlantic Squadron.
Painful Poems, by 'One Who Has Suffered.' c. 1955. MS,
[Bournemouth, England 1955.] 25 f., 8vo. Small collection by a man, made
available to the present research, of antifamily and anti-gallant songs and
verse, including parodies and dysphemizations of the "She Was Poor But She
Was Honest" type, "Christopher Robin" (long after A. A. Milne), and the
sadistic quatrains or "Little Willies" of Harry Graham's Ruthless Rhymes
for Hearthless Homes (1899), which one would have thought needed no
parody.
"PALMER, Edgar, " pseud. See: Eric POSSELT.
Le Panier aux Ordures, par Armand GOUFFÉ et autres. c. 1865.
[London: J. C. Hotten, for Richard Monckton Mimes.] 36 pp., 4to,
lithographic facsimile of calligraphic manuscript. (Copies: PC. 1392-1393;
and M. Bottin, Librairie Niçoise, Nice: the former Pierre Louÿs copy. One of
the two Private Case copies is in fact the original manuscript made for
Monckton Milnes.) Bawdy songs and art poems, in the French "caveau"
or music-hall style.
________. 1866. Same, as: Le Panier aux Ordures, suivi de quelques
chansons. "Libreville" [Bruxelles: Jules Gay]. vi, 154pp., 12mo. (PC.
1391) Enlarged edition. Reprinted c. 1875, "Canton: W. Field et
Tching-Kong," [Bruxelles: J.-J. Gay & Mlle. Doucé.] vi, 154 pp., 12mo.
(Enfer 29; PC. 1394; G. Legman.)
Papers for the W.C.: A Journal for the West Central District. c.
1876. No. 1. [Leipzig.] lg. 4to. Noted in Bibliotheca Arcana (1885)
no. 515 as a mock newspaper printed on toilet paper, with articles like
"Standing Cocks: A Plea for More Hydrants," etc. No copy known.
PARIS, Gaston. See: Le Gai Chansonnier Français.
[PARKE, Howard]. 1955. Freudian Folksongs for the Up-and-Coming, or
Dildos, Dollars & Doughnuts. A Trip down Memory Lane with The Aardparke
[pseud.]. MS, Los Angeles, Calif. 62 f., 4to, typewritten.
(Copy: G. Legman.) Bawdy folksong texts and humorous scraps, the private
repertory of a terminally ill war-mutilee, typewritten by him for this
research "in the free hours from running my mailorder munitions-and-book
service from this wheelchair." Say what you will, this kid died game.
PARKER, Charles. 1975. Pop Song: The Manipulated Ritual. In The Black
Rainbow, Peter Abbs, ed. London: Heinemann. A cri-du-cœur against
degenerate commercialized "rock" and "pop music vocals" replacing erotic
folksong. Compare: Willa MUIR; and G. LEGMAN, The Horn Book.
PARKER, Shane. Parker Folio Manuscript. 1966-71. (Caption title:
"BEWARE! The owner of this book has V.D.") MS, London, and Colchester,
Essex. 190 f., folio. (Copies: Shane Parker, South Australian Museum,
Adelaide; G. Legman: this copy of 150 f. only, 43 f. being omitted as
nonerotic.) Mainly erotic folksongs collected by Shane PARKER in England
until 1966, with additions from Australia, 1969—71. Some of the texts are
marked as being revised and conflated for singing; others with a large cross
reminiscent of Bishop Percy's indicate originals. (Marginal caution, f. 105:
"Please Wash Your Hands After Touching This Book.") This is by far the best
field collection encountered in the present research, except that of Vance
RANDOLPH, q.v., and in Australia John MEREDITH; EDWARDS; and TATE.
Le Parnasse erotique du XVe siècle. 1908. Recueil de pièces [ed.]
par J.-M. ANGOT. Paris: Sansot. 106 pp., 16mo. (Bibliothèque Nationale,
Réserve p.Ye.446.) Compare: Le Gai Chansonnier; ARNAUT; POULAILLE;
and SCHWOB.
Le Parnasse libertin, ou Recueil de poésies libres. 1769.
Amsterdam. Reprinted, 1772, 1776, 1783; and "A Paillardisoropolis, L'an des
Plaisirs" [before 1852], enlarged ed., (4), 188 pp. (Enfer, 322,
729-734.) See detail of contents in PIA, Les Livres de l'Enfer, cols.
999-1002; and Gay-Lemonnyer, 3:646-647.
Le Parnasse (des Poètes) satyrique ou Recueil de vers piquants et
gaillards de nostre temps, tirez des œuvres secrètes des autheurs les plus
signalez. 1622. [Edited by Théophile de VIAU.] Paris. Many reprints,
those from 1660 onward under the title Le Parnasse satyrique du sieur
Théophile; and modem scholarly editions since 1861. The original of the
"drollery" collections of satirical and bawdy poetry during the Revolution
and Restoration in England. See: Gay-Lemonnyer, 3:646-652; also CASE; and
DAY and MURRIE. Of the earliest collection of this type, La Muse
folastre, recherchée des plus beaux Esprits de ce temps (Paris: Anthoine
du Brueil, 1600; 73 f., 16mo) only one copy is known, formerly in the
collections of Eugène Paillet, and Pierre Louÿs; now pænes G. Legman;
ending with the erotic sonnet-sequence, "Sonnets Masculin et Fœminin" [by P.
de Ronsard]. Compare: POULET-MALASSIS; PUTNAM; and MALRAUX.
Le Parnasse Satyrique du XIXe siècle. See: POULET-MALASSIS.
PARTRIDGE, Eric. See: BROPHY; IRWIN; and A Martial Medley.
PAULL, Steven. 1964. (Caption title: "From the Collection of Steven
Paull. Collected by his mother prior to WW [World War] II. From a
handwritten MSS.") Panorama City, Calif. 18 f., 4to, typewritten. (Copy:
Edward Cray, Los Angeles.)
PEACOCK, Kenneth. 1965. Songs of the Newfoundland Outports.
Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. 3 vols. Compare: GREENLEAF; FOWKE; and
MACKENZIE.
The Pearl: A Journal of Facetiæ, Voluptuous Reading. 1879-80.
"Oxford: Printed at the University Press" [London: Edited and published by
W. LAZENBY]. 3 vols., 8vo, in 18 monthly parts. (Enfer 169, pts. 1-3
only.) Pornographie magazine, including serial novelettes, bawdy verse,
limericks, and various obscœna. See also: The Boudoir; The Cremorne;
and Supplements to the present entry, below; also a recent imitation, The
Oyster, q.v.
________. 1879. Same, Supplements or "Christmas numbers,"
published [London: W. Lazenby], as: Swivia, or The Briefless Barrister .
. . with poetry, facetiœ, etc., Christmas (PC. 1413); The
Haunted House, or The Revelations of Theresa Terence, 1880 (PC. 1414);
The Pearl: Christmas Annual 1881 (copy: G. Legman), reprinted
Atlanta, Georgia: Pendulum Books, 1967 (PC. 1415); and The Erotic Casket
Gift Book for 1882 (copy: in private hands, London; one plate reproduced
in Patrick J. Kearney, A History of Erotic Literature, 1982,
following p. 104.). Likewise in this format are The Story of a Dildoe,
1880 (copy: G. Legman), and Randiana, 1884 (PC. 1515), which
include verse. For the full contents of The Pearl and its
Supplements, see: "Pisanus Fraxi" [H. Spencer ASHBEE], Catena Librorum
Tacendorum (1885) pp. 343-358, and more fully L'Enfer de la
Bibliothèque Nationale (1913), no. 169, reprised in Pascal PIA, Les
Livres de l'Enfer (1978) cols. 1019-1022.
________. c. 1890. Same. "London: Printed for the Society of Vice,
1879" [Amsterdam: Aug. Brancart.] 3 vols. each with 192 pp., 8vo, on laid
paper. (PC. 1410) Reprinted dated "1880"; 3 vols. of 192, 200, and 227 pp.
with plates.
_________c. 1900. Same. "London-Paris: Printed for the Society of
Vice" [Rotterdam: P. Bergé]. 3 vols., 8vo, on wove paper. (PC. 1411;
Bodleian, φ.) Also supposed to have been further reprinted [Paris, c.
1925].
________. c. 1932. Same. [New York: M. Mintz]. 3 vols., 8vo, on
marbled texture paper, all 18 "issues" being erroneously dated 1880.
________. 1967. Same. Pocket-reprints of The Pearl, openly
published from 1967 on, without the Supplements: Brandon House, Calif.;
Grove Press; Ballantine Books, New York, 1968; and Collectors' Publications,
City of Industry, Calif. Also an abridged edition, London: "Mentor/New
English Library/Times Mirror," 1970, (PC. 1412).
[PEIGNOT, Gabriel]. 1842. Amusements philologiques, ou Variétés en
tous genres. 3e édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée, par G. P.
Philomneste, A.B. [pseud.]. Dijon: V. Lagier. xii, 560 pp.,
8vo. Literary fun-fest on the style of Isaac d'Israeli's Curiosities of
Literature and the recent People's Almanac of the Wallace family.
Opening section, "Petite Poétique curieuse et amusante," pp. 1-202, covers
all types and formats of bizarre poetry since antiquity. Compare: SANTACRUZ;
RHODI; TABOUROT; also Musarum Deliciœ; and Wit's Recreations.
Peignot's Le Livre des Singularités is also a serendipitist's
delight.
PEIRCE, Waldo. 1931. Tit-illations: An Ode. [New Haven: Arthur
Head]. 11 pp., 12 mo. NYPL, *K. Limited to 100 copies, with eroto-symbolic
typographical ornaments. Satirical art-poem glorifying the magnificent
"udder" of the society woman Mrs. Julie B. Rice (b. 1860), head of
the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise, and For a Safe & Sane
Fourth of July.
PENKERT, A. 1911. Das Gassenlied: Eine Kritik. Leipzig. Compare:
STRASBURGER; and PETER.
PENONCELLI, Abbate. 1859. La Merdeide: Cante tre. (Con varie altre
posie analoghe.) "In Cacherano: B. Culati" [Torino: Canfari]. 154 pp., 8vo.
(PC. 1420) Scatologica. Compare: CORSO.
The Pepys Ballads, 1553-1702. 1929-32. Edited by Hyder E. Rollins.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 8 vols., 8vo. Note: The most
interesting broadside ballads in the Pepys Collection were earlier culled by
Rollins as A Pepysian Garland (1922) and The Pack of Autolycus
(1927), and these are not reprinted in the present 8-volume set, which also
omits many of the ballads in the actual collection preserved at Magdalene
College, Cambridge University.
PERCY, Thomas. 1867-68. Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript. [c.
1645]. Edited by F. J. Furnivall and J. W. Hales. London. 3 vols., and
Supplement of "Loose and Humorous Songs," 8vo. The Supplement, which was
edited and privately issued by Furnivall, contains the erotic songs marked
with three cautionary crosses *** by Percy in the century-old folio
manuscript he discovered (now in British Museum Library, Add. MS 27,879) and
not printed in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765).
Compare: Parker Folio Manuscript (1971).
________.1968. Same. Detroit: Singing Tree Press/Gale Pub. Co. 4 vols. in
3, including the Supplement. Note: An earlier reprint by the De La More
Press, 1905, is cannily divided into 4 volumes, but omits the Supplement
anyhow!
________. c. 1965. Same, Supplement, as: Loose and
Humorous Songs. [Philadelphia: Folklore Associates; and/or New York.]
8vo, offset reprint of the Supplement only. On Percy and the editing of his
Folio Manuscript, see further: Stella Jack (Graduate thesis), University of
Sydney, Australia, 1984; Margarete Willinsky, Bischof Percy's Bearbeitung
der Volksballaden (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1932: Beiträge zur Englischen
Philologie, Heft 22; reprinted New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1967); and
G. Legman, The Horn Book (1964), pp. 343-346.
PERDUE, Chuck. 1969. I Swear to God It's the Truth If I Ever Told It.
Keystone Folklore Quarterly (Spring) 14. Unexpurgated U.S. Negro
folklore. Compare: PERROW.
Los Perfumes de Barcelona: Canción cantable. 1877. Palma: ano
1844. 72 pp., 24to. (PC, 1424) Enlarged edition, "con La Defensa del
pedo," Madrid. 60 pp., 24to. (PC. 1425 with cover title: La
Mierdépolis.) Scatologica. Compare, for Hispanic bawdy folklore: "BORDE";
and JIMÉNEZ.
PERROW, E. C. 1912. Songs and Rhymes from the South. Journal of
American Folklore 25:137-155; also (1913) 26:123-173; and (1915)
28:129-190. Important collection of Negro folksongs, basically expurgated,
but offering valuable evidence and traces. Should be collected and reprinted
in book form. Compare: JOHNSON and ODUM; DANCE; PERDUE; RANDOLPH; TALLEY;
and THOMAS; also Lomax MSS.
PETER, Dr. I. 1953. Gassireim und Gasslspruch in Oesterreich.
Salzburg. Compare: PENKERT.
Le Petit Cabinet de Priape: poésies inédites tirées d'un recueil
manuscrit, fait vers le commencement du XVIIe siècle. 1874. "Neuchâtel:
Imprimé par les presses de la Société des Bibliophiles Cosmopolites" [San
Remo? Jules Gay]. vii, 74pp., 16mo. (PC. 1435-1436) Editor noted as "P. B."
French manuscript drollery collection of the type of the Parnasse
Satyrique of "Sieur Théophile" [de VIAU], early in the 17th century,
which created the form followed later by the English bawdy drolleries.
Compare: POULET-MALASSIS; and Le Parnasse Satyrique, 1622.
PETROPOULOS, Elias. 1968. Rébétika Tragoudha (Songs from the Greek
Underworld). Athens: Digamma. Reprinted 1975; enlarged edition, 1980. Modern
Greek urban folk-poetry of the underworld, parallel to the demotikè
songs and mantinadha of Greek country-dwellers, and to the American
Negro "toasts." Compiler's imprisonment for this publication resulted in his
Kaliardá (Digamma, 1969), a dictionary of Greek homosexual slang. See
further: Mary KOUKOULÈS, Loose-Tongued Greeks (Paris: Digamma, 1983)
on which Petropoulos collaborated; and the very valuable essay-review by
Helen IOANNIDI 1977, Caliardá: La Langue secrète des homosexuels grecs.
Topique: Revue Freudienne (Paris: Epi; October) 20:115—150.
"PIA, Pascal" [pseud. of J. DURAND]. 1978. Les Livres de
l'Enfer. Paris: Coulet-Faure. Best modem bibliography of French erotic
literature. See also: VIOLLET.
PIKE, Robert. 1967. Tall Trees, Tough Men. New York. Songs, pp.
153-155.
A Pill to Purge State-Melancholy, or A Collection of Excellent New
Ballads. 1715. London. lg.8vo. Political songs, attributed to Thomas
DURFEY; not to be confused with the following multi-volume set. See also:
A Collection of State Songs sung at the Mug-houses in Westminster, 1716.
PILLEMENT, Georges. 1970. La Poésie erotique. Paris: L'Or du
Temps/Régine Deforges [J.-J. Pauvert]. 198 pp., sq.8vo. (Copy: G. Legman)
Excellent anthology of erotic poetry in French from 15th to-and-including
20th century. Compare: POULET-MALASSIS, Parnasse Satyrique.
Pills to Purge Melancholy. (Wit and Mirth, or ... ).
1719-20. London. 6 vols., 12mo. [Henry PLAYFORD and] Thomas DURFEY, eds. The
last and largest of the drollery collections, overflowing with charming
erotic folksongs (and some others), with the printed music. Actually
published by Playford, as Wit and Mirth, etc. 1698-1715, in 5 vols.,
but later reissued under Durfey's name for publicity reasons, and with his
own stage-songs placed first as vols. 1 and 2, in 1719-20. Compare: The
Merry Musician, or A Cure for the Spleen (1716); and The Musical
Miscellany (1729-31), also in 6 volumes.
________. Same. 1872. [London: Pearson or Hotten?] 6 vols., 12mo. Note:
This type-facsimile reprint is sometimes confused with the original, but is
easily distinguished by the replacement of the old long-f (for s) by
the short modern s throughout. It should also be observed that the
Pearson facsimile combines volumes from two different original issues: one
with title and headlines as "Wit and Mirth," and the other as
"Pills, etc." See further: G. Legman 1959, Pills to Purge Melancholy,
Midwest Folklore 9:89-102, and Preface to edition following:
________. 1959. Same. New York: Folklore Library Publishers. 6 vols. in
3, 12mo. It is regrettable that this offset reprint was made not from the
original of 1719-20 (of which the New York Public Library holds a copy with
special frontispieces, etc.), but from the type-facsimile of 1872.
The Pinder of Wakefield; A Pill fit to Purge Melancholy, in this
drooping Age. 1632. London. Reprinted 1956, edited by E. A. Horsman,
Liverpool University Press. Rogue biography, including various outspoken
folksongs. Note the first (?) use here of the Pill to Purge Melancholy
title, in 1632.
The Pink Book of Locker-Room Humor. 1980. Toronto: Peek-A-Boo
Press [Rexdale, Ontario: Coles Pub. Co.]. Contains off-color verse. Part of
a series including also the Brown, Turquoise Book, etc. Compare:
Locker Room Humor.
The Pink 'Un. See: Purple Plums.
PINTO, Vivian de SOLA, and Allan RODWAY. 1957. The Common Muse.
London: Chatto & Windus. Folk-ballads, etc. The selection is excellent, and
very courageous for its time, but the limited edition segregates the old and
modern erotic song materials, at pp. xii and 377-439, presumably not in the
ordinary edition for hoi polloi. As reissued in New York:
Philosophical Library (1958?), these pages appear democratically in all
copies. Pocket reprint 1965. London: Penguin. Compare: REEVES; HOLLOWAY; and
FARMER.
Piosenki Polskie (Chansonettes polonaises). 1886. Kryptádia
3:304-337; and (1888) 4:8-75. Important early collection of Polish erotic
songs, with French translation. See further: Folklore Polski.
PIRÓN, Alexis. 1796-97. Oeuvres badines. Paris: Chez les marchands
de Nouveautés. (PC. 1450-1469, including many later editions.) Principal
18th-century erotic poet; his "Ode à Priape" ruined Piron's public
career. (Enfer 1491; and see Pascal PIA, Les Livres de l'Enfer,
cols. 925-927.) One edition of this printed with and after Clovis
HUGUES'S matching Ode au Vagin, written in 1906 (printed c.
1933: Enfer 1123). See also: Les Foutaizes de Jéricho.
Compare: PUTNAM; MAUREPAS; also BÉRANGER; COLLÉ; DEBRAUX; and
POULET-MALASSIS.
[PITRÈ, Giuseppe.] 1886. Spigolature Siciliane (Glanures
Siciliennes): Canzoni, satire, parodie, epigrammi, motti spiritosi, e
giuochi di parole. Kryptádia 3:164-219. Sicilian erotic folklore, as
listed, with French translation, in supplement to the enormous published
collections by Pitrè. See also: Note Allègre. Compare: CORSO; BRIVIO;
CASTELLI; and Il Libretto Rosso.
I Piu' volgari canti studenteschi. Ristampa non autorizzata de "I
Canti Goliardici." 1973. Milano: Edizioni Studio-sette. Compare: Nino
MASCHERI (ed.?); CASTELLI; and Il Libretto Rosso, as well as
preceding item.
PLACE, Francis. c. 1826-30. Collections Relating to Manners and
Morals. MS, London, in 6 vols. (British Museum Library, Additional MSS
27,825, with binding title "PLACE: PAPERS.") Vol. 1, Part A, concerns
"Grossness: Books, etc."; Part B, "Grossness: Songs"; Part C,
"Drunkenness"; Part D, "Poor Beggars; Lotteries, and including
the Hayward Manuscript. Place, an extraordinary person, a self-educated
leather pantsmaker and early birth-control propagandist ("Place's Diabolical
Handbills," proposing the vaginal sponge, now again in vogue). Was to have
been the head of the revolution brewing in England in 1832, until quashed by
the Reform Bill. Here clearly collecting materials toward just such a
magistral work as that later achieved in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and
the London Poor (1852-61), 4 vols.; reprinted, New York; Dover Pubs.
1965; and an excellent abridgment, Peter Quennell, ed. London: Spring Books,
1955? 3 vols. Overwhelmed by his activities as a politician and agitator,
Place's research never went beyond collecting the living materials, of which
he left seventy-one volumes. Largely autobiographical, an unmined El
Dorado in the British Museum Additional MSS, these volumes are still waiting
a century and a half later for an "oral historian" to edit and publish them.
See also: HAYWARD; and RESTIF de La Bretonne, inventor of oral history by
1780.
Le Plaisir des Dieux. 1946. Illustrations de Raymond Lep. Paris.
French students' erotic "Chansons de Salles de Garde," q.v., the
title being that of the most famous such song, celebrating the
soixante-neuf as the "Delight of the Gods."
Le Plat de Carnaval. See: Simon CARÓN.
PLAYFORD, Henry. See: Apollo's Banquet; and Pills to Purge
Melancholy.
Ane Pleasant Garland of Sweet-Scented Flowers. 1835. [Edinburgh:
Edited and published by James MAIDMENT] 31 pp., 4to. Limited to 25 copies.
(PC. 1472) Erotic Scottish verse and folksongs from old MS — now lost —
partly reprinted in John S. FARMER'S Merry Songs and Ballads
(erroneously attributing the editing to C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe). Supplemented
in Maidment's Duchess of Portsmouth's Garland, q.v. See: Legman,
The Horn Book, pp. 367-368.
"POCOCAMPO, Pedro," pseud. See: Walter KLINEFELTER.
Poemata, auctore Oxon. nuper alumno. 1769. Londini: C. Bathurst,
(2), 68 pp., 8vo. (Yale University Library, Zeta Collection.)
Compare: Erotopœgnion; Priapeia; and VORBERG.
Poems, Ballads and Parodies: A Volume of Collected Verse Hitherto
Unpublished. Published for Distribution Among Members only and not for
Sale by Benardin Society. c. 1928. "Benares-Paris, 1923" [Detroit,
Mich.: McClurg]. 60 pp., 12mo. (Brown University Library, Harris
Collection.) Amateur collection of erotic folk-verse and songs, almost
certainly edited by the publisher, McCLURG. Despite the imprint abroad, the
Detroit typographers' union label is printed at the foot of page 3! Compare:
Bibliothèque Erotique; and Library L'Amour.
Poems Lewd and Lusty, 1976. New York: Hart Pub. Co. Reprinted
1981, New York: A. & W. Visual Library. Presumably edited by Harold H. HART,
q.v.
Poems of Passion. c. 1933. [Havana, Cuba.] Not seen. Perhaps
excerpts from Immortalia, then recently reprinted in the United
States.
Poésies Sotadiques. [1960]. G.L. "La Muse du Lutrin et de l'Art
poétique,/L'an soixante, a dicté ce recueil hystérique." Paris. 18 pp.,
12mo, with illustrations. Limitation states that only 9 copies were produced
of these "fugitive verses, which will never be reprinted." (And a good
thing, that.) Note: The initials "G.L." do not refer to G. Legman.
Poética Erotica. See: Thomas R. SMITH.
The Point of View. 1905. "London: Hope, Waite & Long;
International Press" [Boston?] 4to. Limited edition. (Copies: British Museum
Library; Brown University Library, Harris Collection; G. Legman.) Edited
anonymously and probably in large part written by James Clarence HARVEY.
Lavishly printed work of erotic poetry, with Art Nouveau illustrations by
Alfons Mucha, etc. In part reprinted in T. R. SMITH'S Poética Erotica,
q.v.
"POLSTERER, J.,"pseud. See BLÜMML and POLSTERER, eds.,
Futilitates, 1908.
PORTSMOUTH, Duchess of. See: MAIDMENT.
Le Poskochnica, sorte de Kolo ou ronde des Serbes. 1884.
Kryptádia 2:284-288. Serbian erotic texts, with French translation. See
further: VUK.
POSSELT, Erich. 1943. Give Out! Songs of, by and for the Men in
Service. New York: Arrowhead Publishers. 128 pp., 12mo. Reprinted 1944,
New York: Femack Co. Expurgated texts.
________. 1944. G.I. Songs. "Edgar Palmer" [pseud.],
ed. New York: Sheridan House. Largely a revision of the preceding work, with
additional songs, also expurgated. Compare: WALLRICH; and Kurt Adler,
Songs of Many Wars (New York, 1943).
"POSTOLLEC, Jean-Louis." See: Bernard ROY.
POULAILLE, Henri. 1943. La Fleur des chansons d'amour du XVIeme
siècle. Paris: Grasset, "Chansons libres," pp. 265-350. Compare: ARNAUT;
and Le Gai Chansonnier français, by G. PARIS.
[POULET-MALASSIS, Auguste]. 1863-64. Le Parnasse Satyrique du XIXe
siècle. Recueil de vers piquants et gaillards. "Rome: À l'Enseigne des
Sept Péchés Capitaux" [Bruxelles: Auguste Poulet-Malassis & Jules Gay.] 2
vols., 12mo, frontispiece by F. Rops. (Enfer 735-738, 1169-1170; PC.
1401-1402; G. Legman.) Reprinted 1878, "Oxford" [Bruxelles: Vital-Puissant].
(Enfer 739-740; PC. 1405-1406). Also enlarged edition 1881,
Bruxelles. (Enfer 188-193, and 830; PC. 1407), 3 vols., including the
following Supplement.
________. 1866. Same, Supplement, as: Le Nouveau Parnasse
Satyrique du XIXe siècle. Suivi d'un Appendice au Parnasse Satyrique.
"Eleutheropolis: aux devantures des librairies; Ailleurs, dans leurs
arrières-boutiques" [Bruxelles: Poulet-Malassis & Jules Gay]. (16), 276 pp.,
12mo, frontispiece by F. Rops. (Enfer 1315; PC. 1403-1404; G.
Legman.) Reprinted 1881 with the Parnasse, as vol. 3.
Important collection of "unpublishable" erotic poetry and songs by all the
main 19th-century French and Belgian poets. Largely supplemented in Les
Gaudrioles du XIXe siècle, q.v.; then "reprised" by APOLLINAIRE, q.v.;
and valuably updated in André MALRAUX' La Quintessence Satyrique du XXe
siècle, 1926; and PILLEMENT. Compare the similar but international
anthologies of erotic poetry by T. R. SMITH; and COLE. Jules Gay also
published a similar collection of French 18th-century bawdy poems and songs,
as Parnasse Satyrique, XVIIIe siècle: Pièces trop libres échappées dans
des débauches d'esprit à quelques gens de lettres connus et inconnus,
"Neuchâtel" 1874 [San Remo?], (Bibliothèque Nationale, Réserve p.
Ye.990; PC. 1400); and compare: Le Petit Cabinet de Priape; and Le
Parnasse libertin.
PRESTON, Michael J. See at: Cathy M. ORR (Mrs. Preston).
Priapeia, 1888-1890. Satirical and erotic collection of 85 Latin
verse graffiti, being the oldest erotic graffiti collection;
stylistically similar to MARTIAL'S Epigrams, XII, 61. Edited by
VIRGIL at Rome or Naples, c. 40 B.c., during his youth, under
Epicurean influences. First printed in incunabula editions of Virgil, as an
Appendix; scholarly separate editions 17th century. First complete English
translation, in verse and prose, by "Outidanos" and "Neaniskos" [Sir Richard
F. BURTON and L. C. SMITHERS], "Cosmopoli: Erotica Biblion Society"
[Sheffield, and London], and M. S. BUCK'S better English translation,
[Phila.] 1937. French translation: Les Priapées, by A. t'SERSTEVENS,
Paris, 1929. German translation as: Carmina Priapeia, by A. von
BERNUS and Adolf DANNEGGER, Berlin, 1905. Compare: MARTIAL; Erotopœgnion;
Medulla Facetiorum; Callipygia; Poemata; and the Carmina prose et
rithmi of GUNDELFINGER; also VORBERG.
The Private Case: An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case.
1981. Erotica collection in the British (Museum) Library. Compiled by
Patrick J. KEARNEY. [Edited, and] with an Introduction, "The Lure of the
Forbidden," by G. LEGMAN. London: Jay Landesman, 359 pp., 8vo. All
references in the present Bibliography to the British Museum's "Private
Case" [PC] are to this hand-list, by its serial numbers, where will
be found the actual library call-marks. Introduction revised in: Martha
CORNOG, ed., Erotica, Pornography and the Libraries (Phoenix, Ariz.:
Oryx Press, 1990, forthcoming).
A Private Interview between Young William & Sweet Lucy: A Poem . . .
designed as a voluptuous Interpretation of Love's Young Dream. c. 1890.
[London?] 19 pp., 8vo, remounted. (Unique copy: PC. 1495.) Compare: Adam
and Eve; The Bride's Confession; The Diary of a French Stenographer.
Proceedings of the Sackahoominy Society. 1860. Boston, See:
Stag Party.
Purple Plums Picked from the "Pink 'Un." A Carefully Culled Collection
of Clippings from the famous London weekly — Sporting Times.
1931? Privately Printed. [London: The Sporting Times] 150 pp., 12mo. (Copy:
G. Legman) Mildly off-color limericks, verse, etc. selected from issues of
the "Pink 'Un," the British pink Police Gazette of the period,
and competitor of Tit-Bits, from 1914 to 1924. Printed on pink paper,
like the newspaper itself. See the history of this theatre and racing gossip
sheet of the 'Nineties, by J. B. Booth (1938 London: Laurie). Compare:
All About Monte Carlo; and Broadway Brevities.
PURSLOW, Frank. 1965. Marrow Bones. English Folk Songs from the
Hammond and Gardiner MSS. London: English Folk Dance & Song Publications.
Cover title, iv, 120 pp., 12mo. From unpublished collections made in
England, 1905-09, by Henry and Robert Hammond and George Gardiner, with the
music. A valuable series of texts and tunes, without expurgation. Compare:
REEVES; SHARP; BARING-GOULD; GRAINGER; WILLIAMS; and the Parker Folio
Manuscript. Also derivative work by Tony MCCARTHY, Bawdy British Folk
Songs, 1972.
_________. 1968. The Wanton Seed. More English Folk Songs from
MSS. London: E.F.D.S. Pubs.
________. 1972. The Constant Lovers. More English Folk Songs from
MSS. London: E.F.D.S. Pubs. As above.
________. 1974. The Foggy Dew. More English Folk Songs from MSS.
London: E.F.D.S. Pubs.
PUTNAM, H. Phelps. 1971. Collected Poems. Charles R. Walker, ed.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Prints, as "Sonnets: To Some Sexual
Organs," pp. 142-144, an inferior early draft of Putnam's masterpiece, the
erotic sonnet-sequence "Romeo & Juliet" (in imitation of Pierre de
Ronsard's "Sonnet masculin, & Sonnet féminin," c. 1555), of which
Putnam's final version was published in Samuel Roth's Two Worlds Monthly
(1928), reprinted in Neurótica 1949, 5:22, and in COLE, q.v.
Compare: AUDEN; ELIOT; FICKE; GUTHRIE; MARQUIS; D. THOMAS; and especially
UPDIKE; and VORBERG.
QUARANTE (40) Gauloises. c. 1935? Chansons de Salles de
Garde. Petit nombre réservé aux seuls souscripteurs. [Paris?] 216pp.,
lg.4to. (Copy: A. Kahn-Sriber, Paris.)
Quelques Chansons de Salles de Garde. "Yoni soit qui mal γ pense."
1930. Pour MM. les Membres du "Cornet." [Paris? 5 November] 15 f., 8vo,
illus. (Copy: A. Kahn-Sriber, Paris.)
QUERI, Georg. 1907. Die Erotik beim Haberfeldtreiben in Oberbayern.
Anthropophytéia 4:260-279. Forerunner article.
________. 1911. Bauern-erotik und Bauernfehme in Oberbayern.
München: R. Piper. viii, 276 pp., 4to. (Copy: G. Legman.) Reprinted, 1969.
Bavarian erotic folk-verse and songs.
________. 1912. Kraßbayrisch: Ein Wörterbuch der erotischen und
skatologischen Redensarten; mit Belegen aus dem Volkslied und dem Volkswitz.
München: R. Piper. 224 pp., 4to. Limited edition. Facsimile reprint,
1970. Basically a dictionary of German erotic dialect, but with materials on
folksong and jokes. Combines two works by Queri announced for publication as
Erotisches Wörterbuch and WO erotische Schnurren der altbayrischen
Bauern. Compare: Vance RANDOLPH'S similar but for-a-time "Unprintable"
collections made in the American Ozark mountains of Arkansas and Missouri.
La Quintessence Satyrique du XXe siècle. See: André MALRAUX.
Rakish Rhymer (The), or Fancy Man's Own Songster and Reciter. c.
1864. [New York: Andrews?]. (Cupid's Own Library, No. 10.) No copy known.
Reprinted, "Lutetia" [Paris: Charles Carrington]: Privately Printed for
Members of the Sport's Club, in the Year of the World-War, 1917. (3), 163
pp., 12mo. (Copies: Brown University Library, Harris Collection; G. Legman.)
Erotic songs and parodies mostly of music-hall type, dating from and
concerning the Civil War in America. Here anachronistically reprinted by
Carrington for sale to officers of the American Expeditionary Forces in
Paris, 1917, who no longer sang these songs.
The Rambler's Flash Songster. Nothing but Out-and-Outers, adapted for
Gentlemen only, and now singing at Offleys, Cider Cellers, Coal Hole, etc.
c. 1865. [London: Wm. West.] 47 pp., 24to. (PC. 1512; call-mark PC. 31.g.20/1.)
Bound with three other bawdy music-hall songsters of the same publisher and
date: The Cuckold's Nest (q.v.); The Cockchafer; and The
Flash Chaunter: A Slashing, Dashing, Friskey and Delicious Collection of
Gentleman's Songs. (PC. 513, 456, and 717.) See on these: The
Cuckold's Nest; and Legman, The Horn Book (1964), pp. 20, 380,
with note there on 50 further such songsters in the British Museum Library,
call-mark C. 116.a.6-55.
RAMSAY, Allan. 1724—37. The Tea-Table Miscellany. Edinburgh. 4
vols. Various 18th-century reprints; also Glasgow, 1871, and Edinburgh,
1876, 2 vols. Expurgated Scottish folksongs; the purposely effete collection
(note the title) instrumental in driving underground in Britain the
authentically bawdy folksongs printed openly until then in the drolleries
and Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719-20). Compare: THOMSON; BURNS;
HERD; The Merry Muses of Caledonia; and Les Muses en belle humeur
(1742), the first of the underground collections.
Randiana, or Excitable Tales; being the Experiences of an erotic
Philosopher. 1884. "New York" [London: Edward Avery?]. 127 pp., 12mo.
(PC. 1515) Reprinted, Paris, 1898 (Enfer 875); also [New York, c.
1932], etc. In the text the author is referred to less guardedly as a
"cunt Philosopher." Bawdy songs in rewritten music-hall style inserted in
the text, passim, as also in The Pearl; and The Story of a
Dildoe, q.v., both of the same period.
RANDOLPH, Vance. 1946-50. Ozark Folksongs. Floyd C. Shoemaker, ed.
Columbia, Mo.: State Historical Society of Missouri. 4 vols., sm.4to.
Reprinted 1980. In the editing, a large proportion of the songs were
expurgated of certain stanzas or wholly omitted. A few are restored,
corrected, in the excellent 1-volume abridgement, sympathetically edited by
Norm COHEN, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982. But see the
following unexpurgated supplement.
________. 1954—57. "Unprintable" Songs (Lore) from the Ozarks. MS.
Eureka Springs, Ark. See following item: Roll Me In Your Arms, and
Blow the Candle Out. Only one section of the "Lore" portion was earlier
published: Pissing In the Snow, And Other Ozark Folktales. Frank
Hoffmann, ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976), with a valuable
20-page Introduction by Rayna GREEN, q.v.
________. (in press, 1990.) Roll Me In Your Arms: The "Unprintable"
Ozark Folksongs, collected by Vance RANDOLPH. G. LEGMAN, ed.
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. With vol. 2: Blow the Candle
Out: The "Unprintable" Ozark Folklore, collected by Vance RANDOLPH. G.
LEGMAN, ed. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press (in press, 1990). 2
vols., 4to. The extensive materials of both these volumes earlier collected
(1954—57), and repositoried in manuscript and in microfilm copies in the
Library of Congress, Music Division, and various university libraries, under
the title "Unprintable" Songs (Lore) from the Ozarks. This is the
erotic supplement to Randolph's Ozark Folksongs, above. See: G.
Legman, "Unprintable" Folklore? Journal of American Folklore (1990)
103:259-300.
RASKIN, Victor. 1976. Chastushki. MS, London? (Copy V. Raskin,
Lafayette, Indiana) Collection of modern Russian erotic and satirical
folk-quatrains, one sample appearing in English translation in G. Legman,
The New Limerick (More Limericks), 1977, pp. xxiv—xxv, as part of a
series being prepared for publication in Maledicta: The International
Journal of Verbal Aggression. This has not yet appeared. Compare:
HNATJUK; KABRONSKY; KRAUSS; and "Folklore de l'Ukraine," in
Kryptádia (1898) vol. 5, presumably collected by VOLKOV.
RASMUSSEN, I. 1966. Den erotiskegädebog. Kobenhavn. Compare:
KLINTBERG.
The Raunchy Reader. 1965. "Fort Worth, Texas: SRI Publishing Co."
[Arlington, Tex.: John Newbern Co.] Includes off-color limericks and verse
from the same publisher's humor magazine series, Sex to Sexty, q.v.
RAVENSCROFT, Thomas. 1961. Pammelia (1609); Deuteromelia
(1609); and Melismata (1611). Facsimile reprint, edited by MacEdward
Leach. Philadelphia: American Folklore Society. (Bibliographical Series,
vol. 12.) Important early folksong and lyric collection, including rounds
and catches, with the traditional music. (Compare: CUTTS.) Collected by
Ravenscroft at the age of seventeen (b. 1592?) with the intention of
preserving these folk-materials which he believed to be in danger of being
lost. Go thou and do thou likewise.
RAWLINSON, Thomas. Poetic MSS, (Collection of English-language
historical materials made by Thomas Rawlinson, d. 1725; repositoried
in Bodleian Library, Oxford.) Compare: PEPYS; and PERCY.
READ, Allen Walker. 1935. Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in
Western North America: A Glossarial Study of the Low Element in the English
Vocabulary. Paris: Privately Printed. 84 pp., 8vo. Limited to 75 copies.
(NYPL, 3*; G. Legman.) Introduction revised, as "The Nature of Obscenity,"
in: Neurótica (New York, 1949) 5:23-30; and the entire work reprinted
as: Classic American Graffiti (1977, Waukesha, Wise.: Maledicta
Press), 89 pp., with original reviews.
________. 1978. Graffiti as a field of folklore. Maledicta
2:15-31. Compare the preceding.
Records of the Beggar's Benison. See: Beggar's Benison.
Recueil de bonnes chansons et gauloiseries pour étudiants. c.
1932. [Paris] Compare the following.
Recueil de chansons estudiantines. 1971. [Grenoble] 178 pp., 8vo.
(Copy: M. Martinod; see Staub, pp. 217/no. 17.) Collection of student
Chansons de Salles de Garde, q.v., with gross illustrations from Le
Bréviaire du Carabin.
Recueil dit de Maurepas. See: MAUREPAS.
Recueil de Vaudevilles gaillards. 1759. Quarto MS, mid-18th
century. (Collection of M. Bottin, Librairie Niçoise, Nice.) Valuable MS
collection of words and music to a large number of erotic songs of the
period, importantly supplementing strictly textual contemporary works like
Les Muses en belle Humeur, q.v. Note: This Recueil is
mentioned briefly in the Jules Gay-Lemonnyer Bibliographie, vol. 3:
col. 971. Compare: Anthologie de Cantiques, a similar manuscript
(only in part erotic) of about the same date.
REEVES, James. 1958. The Idiom of the People. London: Heinemann.
Song-texts only, without the music collected with the songs, from the MS
collection of Cecil SHARP, q.v. Pioneering, for its period, in Reeves's
preface discussing the "lingua franca" of folksong, and courage in printing
these mildly erotic texts, on the lead of de Sola Pinto's The Common
Muse, 1957.
________. 1960. The Everlasting Circle: English Traditional Verse from
the manuscripts of S. Baring-Gould, H.E.D. Hammond, and George B. Gardiner.
London: Heinemann. Omits the music collected with these formerly
expurgated songs (note "Verse" in title) later given by PURSLOW, q.v., with
further texts. There is an important review of Reeves's work by A. L. Lloyd
and Patrick Shuldham-Shaw in the Journal of the English Folk Dance & Song
Society (1958) p. 152, discussing the deficiencies of this approach, on
"The Foggy Dew."
REEVES, Nancy. 1957. College Songs. MS, Bloomington, Indiana. 55
or more items, 4to, type-written. Includes students' bawdy songs. This MS is
repositoried in the Indiana University Folklore Archive, but divided up
under separate songs.
REICH, Dr. Karl. 1912. Wiener Studententischlied. Anthropophytéia
9:459. Medical students' songs from Vienna, sung at table, of the aggressive
"nasty-nasty" type.
REISKEL, Karl. 1905. Schnadahüpfeln und Graseltänze. Anthropophytéia
2:117-121. See also: BLÜMML; KRAUSS; and Wirtshaus an der Lahn;
and especially BEITL; and HAND.
________. 1905. Spanische Romanzen. Anthropophytéia 2:122-124.
German bawdy verses similar to limericks in their use of (Spanish!)
geographical rhymes. Compare "A Trip Around the World" [by John COULTHARD]
in G. Legman, ed., The New Limerick (More Limericks), 1977, nos.
658-692.
Reno Wrecks. See: The "Wrecks."
REUSS, Richard A. 1966. An Annotated Field Collection of Songs from
the American college student oral tradition. [Bloomington, Indiana, The
Author.] vii, 355 f., 4to, offset from typewriting; M.A. thesis, Indiana
University, 1965. Limited edition: 20 copies only (Copies: Indiana
University Folklore Archive; Richard Reuss, Ann Arbor, Mich.; G. Legman.)
Outstanding and only unexpurgated published collection of the real folksongs
of American college students, both men and women. Compare: GOLDSTONE. Should
be reprinted in public edition.
REYMOND, Carlos. 1924. Douze Chansons de Route. Recueillies et
décorées de 52 bois originaux gravés par Carlos REYMOND. Paris:
Typographie Fr. Bernouard. 58 pp., folio. Limited to 186 copies. (Copy:
Alain Kahn-Sriber, Paris.) Bawdy songs of the type of the Chansons de
Salles de Garde, q.v. The first such signed and openly printed
collection, though strictly limited edition. Compare: LENOIR; TILLOT; and
DOMINIQUE.
RHODI, Ibykos de [pseud.?]. c. 1930. The Imitation of
Sappho. [Translated from the French by Lupton WILKINSON. New York: Guy
D'Isère (Gabors), for David Moss?] 8vo, with Lesbian illustrations in the
style of Gladys Parker. A translation of Les Tendres Epigrammes de Cydno
la Lesbienne (1911, Paris: Sansot), itself presumably translated from
the Greek, but attributed to Nathalie Clifford Barney and/or Renée Vivien
("Pauline Tarn"), in continuation of Pierre Louÿs's famous hoax, Les
Chansons de Bilitis. This American translation (but not the British
pressbook edition as "Kydno"), includes erotic "shaped" poetry, both
phallic and vaginal, imitating Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligrammes.
Translator's pseudonym given as "J. Sumner Radclyffe." Compare: PEIGNOT;
SANTA-CRUZ; and Musarum Deliciæ.
RICE, James L. See: LEGMAN, "Russian Bawdy Songs."
RICHTER, L. 1968. "Mein Liebchen hat ein Etwas": Der erotische Aspekt
in den deutschen Volkslied-Sammlungen. Leipzig. Compare: BREDNICH;
RÖHRICH; and RANDOLPH.
RITCHIE, J. T. R. 1964. The Singing Street. Edinburgh. See also:
MacCOLL; and DISCOGRAPHY, in progress.
ROBERTS, Roderick J. 1964. Negro Folklore in a Southwestern
"Industrial School." [Bloomington, Indiana?] xxv, 200 f., 4to, M.A.
thesis, Indiana University, 1963. Reproduced from type-writing; may have
been issued at Austin, Texas. (Copies: Roger Abrahams; G. Legman.) An
outstanding collection of Negro folk-brags, "toasts," and tales, from a
reformatory for teenagers. Compare: ABRAHAMS; JACKSON; and WEPMAN.
ROBERTSON, Jeanie. See: DISCOGRAPHY, in progress.
ROBINSON, Capt. John. 1917. Songs of the Chantey Man. The Bellman
(Minneapolis, 14 July-6 August 1917). Stan Hugill notes, p. 518, that
Robinson is "the only person who 'had a go' at titivating up" for
respectable publication the notably bawdy sea-chanteys of the Chilean coast
trade. Compare: CARPENTER; and HUGILL.
ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, Earl of. 1680. Poems on Several Occasions.
"Antwerp" [London]. Reprinted several times, "Antwerp" and London; some
editions including The Cabinet of Venus, an erotic miscellany.
(Copies: British Museum Library, formerly in PC.; Bodleian Library;
Princeton University Library; and Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.)
Facsimile reprint of 1680 edition, Princeton University Press, 1950.
12mo, printed on paper watermarked "Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson." The
opening gun of the literary "New Freedom" in America, years before the open
commercial reprints of D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and My Secret Life.
Edited by the eminent Rocastrian, James Thorpe, who like his British
counterpart, Vivian de Sola Pinto, rocastrifies the canon of the text
into nothingness in his notes, by claiming it was all written by someone
other than Rochester, such as Capt. Radcliffe, "one Fishbourne, a wretched
scribbler" (in fact, an excellent composer of catches), and so forth, thus
leaving the purpose of this reprint somewhat obscure. Actually the bawdiest
of the drollery collections, with verse by other hands. Compare: Choyce
Drollery; Sportive Wit; and WARDROPER. The best edition of Rochester's
Poems is edited by David Vieth, Yale University Press, 1968.
Rochester Miscellany. c. 1680. MS, England. Folio. (Harvard
University, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 636F.) Collection of erotic
poetry by the Earl of Rochester (see preceding item) and others. Essentially
a drollery that never got printed. Note: Other valuable Rochester MSS,
including his famous bawdy play, Sodom, or The Quintessence of
Debauchery, in Princeton University Library, waiting for the definitive
editor.
RÖHRICH, Lutz. 1967. Liebesmetaphorik im Volkslied. In Wayland Hand
Festschrift, Bruce Jackson, ed., pp. 187-200. Hatboro, Penn.: Folklore
Associates.
________. 1968. Adam und Eva: Das erste Menschenpaar in Volkskunst und
Volksdichtung. Stuttgart. Compare: BREDNICH; RICHTER; and Adam and
Eve. See also: Arschwische, 1836.
________. 1982. Erotik/Sexualität. Enzyklopädie des Märchens,
hrsg. von K. Ranke (Berlin) 4: cols. 234-278. Important conspectus and
chronological bibliography on erotic elements in modern folklore and
folksong. N.B. : Note No. 101 refers to unpublished erotic folksongs
collected in the Deutsche Volksliedarchiv, at Freiburg. Compare similar
American folksong archives, at DORSON, WILGUS, and Library of Congress:
CARPENTER, and GORDON MSS.
ROLLAND, Eugène. See: Gaston PARIS.
ROLLAND, Fred. 1938. Street Songs of Children. In New Masses (New
York, 10 May 1938). Expurgated but timely. Compare: McCOSH; SUTTON-SMITH;
and TURNER.
ROLLETT, Hermann, et al. 1908. Erotische und skatologische Volkslieder.
Anthropophytéia 5:151-156. Erotic Schnadahüpfel and other
songs. Compare: BLÜMML; and KRAUSS.
"Roll Me In Your Arms," and "Blow the Candle Out." See:
RANDOLPH and LEGMAN.
Roll Me Over. See: Songs of Roving and Raking.
RÖSCH, G. 1957. Das deutsche Kiltlied. Tübingen. Thesis.
ROTH, Klaus. 1977. Ehebruch-schwanke in Liedform: eine Untersuchung
zur . . . Schwankballade. München: Fink Verlag/Motive. 500 pp., Study of
humorous German and English "Child" ballads concerning adultery.
Rowdy Rhymes. 1952. [Edited by Peter BEILENSON.] Mount Vernon,
N.Y.: Peter Pauper Press. 62 pp., 16mo. Reprinted by the same
publisher-editor as Rowdy Rhymes and Bibulous Ballads, gathered from
many gay minstrels; Peter Pauper Press [1960]. Expurgated semi-erotica for
the gifte-booke trade. The treatment of "The Blue Velvet Band" is an
object-lesson in folklore faking.
The Roxburghe Ballads. 1869-99. William Chappell and J. Woodfall
Ebsworth, eds. Hertford and London: Ballad Society. 9 vols., 8vo. Reprinted,
New York: AMS [1968?] 8 vols. Compare: Bagford Ballads; Pepys Ballads;
also HOLLOWAY.
_________. 1873-74. Same (selections:) The Roxburghe Ballads,
edited by Charles HINDLEY. London. 2 vols. Disloyally undertaken after the
complete Chappell-Ebsworth edition (above) had already begun publication,
the most valuable item here is the anonymous article [by John Payne COLLIER]
reprinted in vol. 1: pp. x-xxvii on "Roxburghe Ballads," originally in
The Athenœum (23 and 30 August 1845), and his earlier edition of 1847,
ending with the only available discussion of the old "medleys," in which
each stanza of a satirical song ends insultingly, in rhyme, with a mocking
proverb or catch-phrase. Medleys are not well understood by recent editors,
who do not always recognize the proverbial nature of the punchlines. See:
SANTACRUZ, below; PURSLOW, Marrow Bones; and particularly WARDROPER,
Love & Drollery (1969) pp. xviii-xix and 98-102, Nos. 168, 171, "A
Letter from a Lover to his Beloved," and "The Young Man's Careless Wooing,
All Done out of Old English Proverbs," and his Notes on these, pp.
258-260.
[Roy, Bernard]. 1939. Cahier de Chansons de Jean Lapipe . . . et de
Jean-Louis Postollec [pseuds.; Paris?]. 40 folded double-sheet
broadsides, with hand-colored illustrations and music; folio. Limited to 100
copies, in folding-case. (Copies: Alain Kahn-Sriber, Paris; G. Legman.)
Noted as "Seconde édition, réunissant en un seul volume, les deux cahiers
précédemment publiés." Erotic sea songs, divided into "Chansons Côté Dames"
for the 21 polite and martial songs, and "Chansons Côté Hommes" for the 19
plainly bawdy songs. Compare: HAYET.
________. c. 1952. "Same," as: Cahier de Chansons de Jean-Louis
Postollec . . . et de Jean Lapipe
[pseuds.; Paris: Guy LePrat]. Note the reversal of the order of
the pseudonyms in this cheap abridgment. Gives the editor-illustrator's real
name on a pasted slip, but reprints only 24 of the songs, three being
slipped from the Ladies side over to the Gents, to help disguise the
omission of all the bawdier songs. Gay Paree!
RUDECK, Wilhelm. 1897. Geschichte der öffentlichen Sittlichkeit in
Deutschland. Berlin. Pp. 96 ff. on erotic folksongs, on which a few
words are also said in Dr. Albert MOLL'S The Sexual Life of the Child
(English translation, London, 1912, pp. 262-263), reprinted in Legman,
The Horn Book, p. 417. Compare: STERN-SZANA; HAYWARD; and especially
PLACE.
Rugby Jokes. See: John A. YATES.
Rugby Songs, Why Was He Born So Beautiful and other. 1967. See:
Harry MORGAN.
Rugby Songs. 1980. (Collected by Peg and Steve CHAGNON from a
local Rugby club). [Philadelphia] 13 f. 4to, typewritten, photocopy issue;
with MS additions, f. 12-13, by Martha CORNOG. (Copy: G. Legman.) Mostly
British bawdy songs, including several on homosexuality — very rare in
original American songs — here seen in transmission to America via rugby
teams and clubs; as also in the following.
Rugger Hugger presents: Volume I. A Collection of the Most Celebrated
Bawdy Singing Verse, compiled full and by Persons of Quality, with
Intentions of Fitting Almost All Humors. 1976. Denver, Colo.: Rugger
Hugger, Inc. (7), 75 pp., sm.8vo, offset from typewriting. No more
published. (Copies: Jackie Martling, East Norwich, New York; G. Legman.)
Cover title: Father Rugby Reveals. Group-edited, as stated. Despite
the American provenance of this booklet, contents are largely current bawdy
British rugby songs, in part from MORGAN, q.v. The Last of the Drolleries.
Compare: Rugby Songs, preceding; and YATES.
RÜHMKORF, Peter. 1974. Über das Volksvermögen: Exkurse in den
literarischen Untergrund. Rheinbek-bei-Hamburg. Interesting study posing
folk-vs. art-erotica. See also: Volks-Erotik (1968), possibly
edited by Rühmkorf.
Rymour Club, Miscellanea of the. 1906-28. Edinburgh. 3 vols. in 4.
Contains children's rhymes.
S., Dr. C. 1912. Aachener Lieder und Reime. Anthropophytéia
9:432-438. Erotic songs and rhymes from Aachen. On this "Dr. S.," see also:
SUSRUTA.
SACKAHOOMINY Society, Proceedings of. 1860. Boston. See: Stag
Party.
I Sacri Misteri Gaudiosi. 1977. In The New Limerick (More Limericks),
G. LEGMAN, ed. pp. xxi-xxiii. New York. Irreverent Italian bawdy
formula-song, rhyming on a pantheon of saints' names. Compare longer text in
CASTELLI, Canti Goliardici, No. 2 (1976) pp. 72-76.
Sailing Ship Shanties. See: Stanley J. HUGILL.
[SAILLAND, Maurice Edmond, pseud.: "Curnonsky"] and
J.-Wladimir BIENSTOCK. 1925. Le Wagon des Fumeurs. Petites histoires de
tous et de personne. Paris: G. Crès. (9), 351 pp., 12mo. Limited to 230
copies containing extra chapter, "Le Fourgon," pp. 335-350. (Copies: Ohio
State University; G. Legman.) Bawdy jokes and verse; one of a series of 5
volumes, on which see The Horn Book, p. 483, in each of which the
saltiest material is reserved in a final chapter present only in the limited
edition for presentation. This volume — the best of the series — ends with
"La Salade Mythologique," as below.
SAINT-GEORGES, Élie de. 1970. Chansons de Salles de Garde. Textes et
musiques recueillis par Élie de St. Georges [pseud.?]
Edition 2000, Paris. 168 pp., sq.12mo. (Copy: A. Kahn-Sriber, Paris.) See
other editions of these student songs under Chansons de Salles de Garde.
La Salade Mythologique. Dessins de Mose. Collection Mosaïque c.
1960. [Geneva: Sack?]. (Copy: A. Kahn-Sriber, Paris.) "Chansons de Salles de
Garde" of French students; also obscœna, one of which punning fabulously on
names gives the book its title. (See: "Sacri Misteri," and SAILLAND.) Also
printed at end of Bilitis (c. 1950), an erotic miscellany.
La Salle de Garde. Aquarelles de Raoul d'Aix. Au dépens d'un
Morticole. c. 1959. [Paris?]. See also: Chansons.
Salles de Garde: Chants traditionnels du Quartier Latin et de
l'Internat. Dédié aux étudiants. 1946. [Paris:] Aux Trois Ecus. 4to.
(Copy: G. Legman.) With very free illustrations, and the music. See, for
other editions of these student songs: Anthologie Hospitalière;
Bréviaire; and Chansons de Salles de Garde.
SANDBURG, Carl. 1927. The American Songbag. New York: Harcourt.
Popular collection, on style of the Lomax's later; wholly expurgated. The
first of the commercial folksong exploitation volumes in the United States.
Compare: Immortalia, intended as a bawdy reply to this work. Sandburg
also issued a similar New Songbag later.
SANDERS, Daniel. 1842. Neugriechische Volksund Freiheitslieder.
Leipzig. First publication of modern Greek erotic folksongs. Compare:
KOUKOULÈS; LELEGOS; and PETROPOULOS.
SANTA-CRUZ, Melchior de. 1600. La Floresta Spagnola. [1574?]
French translation also titled: La Floresta Spagnola, ou Le Plaisant
Bocage, contenant plusieurs comptes, gosseries, brocards, cassades, & graves
sentences de personnes de tous estats. Lyon. Valuable sources on
word-play of all kinds. In Bk. 3, chap. 2, "Des responses qui se font par
certains comptes de chansons anciennes (de vieilles et vulgaires chansons),
et Vaudevilles, ou leurs refrains," concerns insult-medleys, on which see:
Roxburghe Ballads, Hindley, ed., above. Compare the facetious essays
and poems of Vicenzo BELANDO, Lettere facete e chiribizzose (1588
Parigi: Abel l'Angelier), published in Paris though in the Italian-Venetian
dialect, of which there are long extracts in the Bibliothèque
bibliophilo-facétieuse (1854 Londres) 2:22-37, of Gustave Brunet and
Octave Delepierre, as "les frères Gébéodé" (copy: Ohio State University).
See also the codification of humor forms in Les Bigarrures des Accords
of Estienne TABOUROT, late 16th century; also PEIGNOT; and Wit's
Recreations.
SCHENK, L. 1911. Des Jägers Klage. Anthropophytéia 8:322-323, and
(1912) 9:457. Enlarging on a bawdy song-fragment.
[SCHIDROWITZ, Leo]. 1921. Das schamlose Volkslied: Eine Sammlung
erotischer Volkslieder. Wien: Privatdruck, oblong 8vo. (Copy: G.
Legman.) Reprinted [1925?] Compare: BLÜMML; OSTWALD; and especially KRAUSS;
also Bilder-Lexikon der Erotik, which was edited by Schidrowitz.
________. c. 1930. Der lasterhafte Herr Biedermeyer.
"Wollüstige Tändeleyen/unziemliche Reimereyen." Wien. 195 pp., 8vo.
Excellent collection of "Frau Wirtin" quatrains. See: Das Wirtshaus an
der Lahn.
SCHLAFFER, H. 1971. Musa Jocosa: Gattungspoetik und
Gattungs-geschichte der erotischen Dichtung in Deutschland. Stuttgart.
SCHLOCH, R. See: Unexpurgated.
SCHNABEL, Friedrich Erich, et al. 1911. Neue Parallelen zum "Streit
der Jungfrauen." Anthropophytéia 8:365-369. On the vaginal bragging-song
known in English as "The Whoorey Crew, or Three Old Whores from Baltimore."
See also: LEHMANN-NITZSCHE; MÜLLER; and SCHWAAB.
_________. 1912. Kölner Nähbudenlieder. Anthropophytéia 9:448-453.
Erotic songs from Köln, Hamburg, etc.
_________. 1912. Kölnische Kinderliedchen. Anthropophytéia
9:473-474, with other bawdy children's rhymes from Bremen and Lindau.
SCHRECKER, H. 1921. Die Erotik im Soldatenlied. München.
Dissertation. Compare: MAIER; OPPELN; and for English, BROPHY; HENDERSON;
HOPKINS; PAGE; also GETZ; and STARR.
SCHROEDER, Rebecca B. 1982. Unprintable Songs from the Ozarks: Forgotten
Manuscripts. Missouri Folklore Society Journal 4:43-50. Compare:
RANDOLPH.
SCHULTZ, F. 1907. Die erotischen Motive in den deutschen Dichtungen
des 12 and 13 Jahrhunderts. Greifswald. Dissertation.
SCHUTTE, P. 1906. Die Liebe in den englischen und schottischen
Volksballaden. Halle. Dissertation.
SCHWAAB, Josef. 1905. Beiträge zum erotischen Lexikon [und Lied] der
Deutschen in Nordböhmen. Anthropophytéia 2:14-16; and addition by E.
K. BLÜMML, in same, 2:110. On the "Streit der Jungfrauen"
vaginal bragging-song, known in English as "The Whoorey Crew, or Three Old
Whores from Baltimore." See further: LEHMANN-NITZSCHE; MÜLLER; and SCHNABEL;
also, for the non-German history of the song, G. LEGMAN, The Horn Book
(1964) pp. 206 and 414-415.
Schwedische Schwanke und Aberglauben aus Norland. 1884.
Kryptádia 2:171-222. Outstanding article on Swedish erotic folklore,
unfortunately anonymous. Pp. 206-211 and 214 give the erotic ballad
"Ploughman and Devil," with German translation and parallels at p. 221, note
10. Compare: KLINTBERG; and RASMUSSEN.
SCHWEINICKLE, O. U., pseud. See: The Book of a Thousand Laughs.
SCHWOB, Marcel. 1905. Le Parnasse Satyrique du Quinzième siècle.
Paris: Welter. viii, 336 pp., sq.16mo. (Forms: vol. 9, pt. 1, of
Kryptádia.) French erotic art songs and folksongs from 15th-century
manuscripts, as supplement to Anatole de MONTAIGLON, Recueil de poésies
françoises des XVe et XVIe siècles (Paris, 1860-80); and the Chansons
du XVe siècle of Gaston PARIS, the principal editor of Kryptádia,
in which (1886, 3:1-146) Pâris's own erotic supplement appeared as "Le Gai
Chansonnier français." Compare: ANGOT; ARNAUT; CUTTS; HILL; Jyl of
Brentford's Testament; Percy Folio Manuscript; and POULAILLE.
Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Display'd. 1738. [London, 1690?]
Reprinted, Rotterdam. Anonymously edited [by Gilbert CROCKAT and John
MONROE], mocking-by-quoting the excesses of Protestant preaching; with
reference to bawdy songs p. 134, discussed in G. Legman, The Horn Book,
pp. 361-362; and 209, on the macaronic humorist Theo. FOLENGO. Compare:
G. PEIGNOT, Prédicatoriana, c. 1830, on bizarre and facetious French
and Italian sermons.
The Scots Musical Museum. 1787-1803. Edited by James JOHNSON [and
Robert BURNS]. Edinburgh: James Johnson. 6 vols., 8vo. Reprinted as: The
Scotish Musical Museum, William STENHOUSE, ed. (with additions by David
Laing and Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe), Edinburgh, 1839, of which Stenhouse's
excellent musicological notes (set in type in 1820, but not then printed)
were published separately as Illustrations of the Lyric Poetry and Music
of Scotland, with a further reprint of the Scots Musical Museum,
1853 Edinburgh. Final offset reprint, Hatboro, Penn. : Folklore Associates,
1968, the printing of the music (originally from pewter plates) now rather
unclear.
SCOTT, Harold. 1946. The Early Doors. London. On the British
19th-century music halls. Compare: LEGMAN, The Horn Book; NETTEL;
SPEAIGHT; also The Cuckold's Nest; and Rambler's Flash Songster.
SEBEOK, Thomas A., ed. 1978. Sight, Sound, and Sense. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press. Includes: Paul BOUISSAC and Ivan KARP, "A Semiotic
Approach to Nonsense: Clowns and Limericks," and "Smart Fishermen Take Care
of Their Rods, " pp. 244-263, reprinting a series of 28 erotic limericks [by
Charles C. Walcutt], "The Misfortunes of Fyfe," pp. 260-263, with elaborate
anti-Freudian demonstration or reversal, by both authors. Far from being a
bawdy ballad with occasional food metaphors, as it appears, this ballad is
instead secretly a "coded" celebration of food symbolism, in the line of
Lévi-Strauss's "Raw and Cooked" formulations, but hidden beneath its
presumably sexual scenario! One trusts this is intended as a leg-pull or
farce, on the style of those collected in Metafolkloristica: An Informal
Anthology of Folklorists' Humor, "edited by Franz Kinder and Boaz the
Clown" (P.O. Box 58183, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1989), the principal editor,
"Kinder," being identified, p. 60, as "the advance man for one Jan Harold
Brunvand," but who missed this one, probably the most flabbergasting of all.
Secret Songs of Silence, by "Sir Oliver Orpheus." See: Peter
BUCHAN.
SEDLEY, Stephen. 1967. The Seeds of Love. London: Essex Music. Not
seen. Reported as "unexpurgated but pretty mild."
SEEGER, Peggy, and Ewan MacCOLL. 1960. The Singing Island. London:
Mills Music. See also their Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland,
under MacCOLL.
SEEGER, Peter. 1945. Notes of an Innocent Bystander. [Saipan]
19pp., 4to, mimeographed. (Copies: Library of Congress, Folksong Archive; G.
Legman.) Service songs of World War II, mostly bawdy, with musical notations
in that unmistakable hand, pp. 2, and 9-11.
________. 1972. The Incompleat Folksinger. New York: Simon &
Schuster.
Select Reading, Profusely Illustrated for Gay Boys and Naughty Girls:
An Interesting History of Diddle, Doodle, Dum! How done by those who Know
How. c. 1915. Compiled by [mark of anchor]. [Chicago or
Cincinnati?] 424, viii pp., sm.16mo. (Only known copy: David Barton-Jay, of
Brattleboro, Vermont, who plans a facsimile reprint according to Clifford
Scheiner, Brooklyn, N.Y.) Rare erotic miscellany of verse and prose, toasts,
anecdotes, and obscœna, with humorous period drawings. Compare:
Cleopatra's Scrapbook; and The Stag Party [edited by Eugene
FIELD], at the same period. See also: URNL (1901 Milwaukee), possibly
issued by the same publisher or private club. Note: "Gay" in this
title does not mean homosexual.
Sex Songs. 1978. MS, Boulder, Colorado. (161) f. 4to, photocopied
from typewriting. (copy: G. Legman.) Collection of current American erotic
folksongs, obviously made by a professional folklorist, with (noncollegiate)
provenances and dates of performance marked; sent anonymously for the
present research.
Sex to Sexty. 1964-76? Edited by "Richard Rodman & Goose Reardon"
[John NEWBERN and Peggy RODEBAUGH]. "Fort Worth, Texas: S.R.I. Pub. Co."
[Arlington, Texas: John Newbern Co.] 4to, about 50 numbers published. In
tandem with: Super Sex to Sexty [edited and published as above],
1967-1986? folio, about 130 numbers published. Heavily illustrated sex-humor
magazines, in the style of but much freer than similar American midwest
magazines of the 1920s-to-1950s: Hot Dog!; Jim Jam Jems; Captain
Billy's Whiz Bang and Smokehouse Monthly; Charley Jones'
Kansas City Laff-Book; the sex-tabloid newspaper Broadway
Brevities (q. v.), and the students' college humor magazines published
at the universities, to all of which Sex to Sexty was the last main
continuator. Not verbally obscene, but heavily off-color, and including much
verse and obscœna among the jokes and gags. In small part collected as
The Raunchy Reader, 1965; much of the material "too-hot-to-handle" being
included in Newbern's own The World's Dirtiest Jokes, 1969, of which
the intended title was The Cream of the Crap, q.v. Compare: Jest
on Sex, for the milder J. M. Elgart Over Sexteen series and its
imitations: Sexations; Sextra Special, etc.
SHARP, Cecil. 1974. Collection of English Folk Songs. Maud
Karpeles, ed. London: Oxford University Press. 2 vols., lg.8vo, with the
music. Note: Despite the title, includes less than half of the Sharp
MS collection of English folksongs and ballads, made from about 1900 to
1922; only 1,165 versions out of 2,470 collected being printed here.
(Compare: PURSLOW; and REEVES, who earlier published a few of these texts
without the music.) The Sharp MS was purposely withheld from publication for
fifty years by Miss Karpeles, Sharp's former secretary and executor, despite
all protests, out of recalcitrance to deal with its few very mildly erotic
texts. In any case, Sharp had collected only enough to the text of any such
songs to display the tunes, his own principal expurgatory interest.
(Compare: RANDOLPH.) Copies of the Sharp MS are repositoried at Clare
College, Cambridge, England; Harvard University Library; and the English
Folk Dance and Song Society, London; and at NYPL and UCLA.
_________, [and Olive Dame CAMPBELL]. 1932. English Folksongs from the
Southern Appalachians. Maud Karpeles, ed. London: Oxford University
Press. 2 vols., lg.8vo. The first edition, New York, 1917, notes on the
title page the collaboration of Ms. Campbell, who collected part of the
materials.
[SHARPE, Charles Kirkpatrick]. 1823. A Ballad Book. [Edinburgh]
Limited to 20 (?) copies. Reprint, edited by David Laing, with notes by Sir
Walter Scott, 1880; further reprinted by Edmund Goldsmid in his "Bibliotheca
Curiosa" series, without the Laing-Scott materials, Edinburgh, 1883, and
1891, in 2 pts. This is the first of the unexpurgated Scottish scholarly
collections after The Merry Muses of Caledonia. Compare: BUCHAN;
KINLOCH; and especially MAIDMENT.
SHAY, Frank. 1927. My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions.
Woodcuts by John Held, Jr. New York: Macaulay Co. Reprinted 1961, New York:
Dover Pubs., with following item.
_________. 1928. More Pious Friends and Drunken Companions. New
York: Macaulay Co. Reprinted 1961, New York: Dover Pubs., with preceding
item. Mostly mock-sentimental songs, replacing the real bawdry of drunken
singing, as in Shay's Drawn from the Wood, 1929.
________. 1948. American Sea Songs and Chanteys. New York: Norton.
First published under the infinitely better title of: Iron Men and Wooden
Ships (1924, New York: Doubleday). Expurgated and "selected" texts.
Compare: COLCORD; DOERFLINGER; HUGILL; and "Dave E. JONES," which last is
believed to be the pseudonym used by Shay to publish the sea-chanteys
omitted and expurgated here.
SHEMEL, Sidney, and William KRASILOWSKY, Esq. 1964. The Business of
Music. New York. Fascinating insiders' viewpoint on the retooling of
often bawdy authentic folksong into pop-culture. Compare: Oscar BRAND,
The Ballad Mongers (1962); Peter SEEGER, The Incompleat Folksinger
(1972); and G. LEGMAN, The Horn Book (1964) two final essays:
"Who Owns Folkore?" and "Folksongs, Fakelore, and Cash."
SHEPARD, Leslie. 1962. The Broadside Ballad: A Study in Origins and
Meaning. London, and Hatboro, Penn.: Folklore Associates. Excellent
presentation; a deeply thought book on popular culture.
_________. 1973. The History of Street Literature: The Story of
Broadside Ballads, Chapbooks, etc. Newton Abbot, Devon: David &
Charles. With many reproductions of old street ballads, including two erotic
examples: "The Maiden's Bantam Cock," p. 172; and "I Shall Be Married on
Monday Morning" ("Seventeen Come Sunday"), p. 175. Compare: PLACE; ASHTON;
HINDLEY; HENDERSON; NETTEL; and WEHSE.
SHOEMAKER, H. W. 1931. Mountain Minstrelsy of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia. Originally issued as North Pennsylvania Ministrelsy.
Note: A manuscript supplement of the erotic texts omitted from this work was
supplied by Col. Shoemaker to G. Legman for the current research.
SHOOLBRAID, Murray. 1973. Musa Proterva. MS, Vancouver, British
Columbia. Collection of 50 modern Scottish and English bawdy songs, in part
transcribed from private tape-recordings. (Copies: M. Shoolbraid; G.
Legman.)
________. 1974. Burns and Bawdry. Come All Ye: The Vancouver Folk Song
Society Journal Jan. 3:6-13.
SILVERMAN, Jerry. 1982. The Dirty Song Book. Briarcliff Manor, New
York: Scarborough House/Stein & Day. xi, 177 pp., 4to, with music. Reprinted
1988 New York. Texts revised heavy-footedly into extra "dirtiness," to live
up to the title. Mock-scholarly foreword, p. vii, hits rock bottom in
nonfolk humor. Two French bawdy students' songs are also included, "La
Pierreuse," p. 102, and "O mon berger fidèle," p. 127; and one in
Mexican-Spanish, "San Marqueña," pp. 145-147. Compare: MORGAN; BABAD; BOLD;
BRAND; CRAY; LAYCOCK; and LOGUE, a worthy crew. Also Snatches & Lays.
SIMPSON, Claude. 1966. The British Broadside Ballad and its Music.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 4to. Important source and
index-work, largely revising, updating and replacing magistrally William
CHAPPELL, q.v. See also: CASE; DAY and MURRIE; and LAWS.
Das sind unsere Lieder. c. 1978. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Verlag.
With repulsive erotico-humorous illustrations by Gertrud Degenhardt
(compare: The Ballad of Eskimo Nell), reproduced in part in
SILVERMAN, The Dirty Song Book, 1982.
Skolan skall sprängas. c. 1970. [Sweden] 12mo. (Copies: Svante
Kjellberg, Kalmar, Sweden; G. Legman.) Swedish children's songs and rhymes,
mostly "obscene."
The Slime Sheet. 1930. Paris. Not seen. Mimeographed (?)
collection of bawdy songs for singing by expatriate Americans in Paris;
cited by Godfrey IRWIN, presumably its editor, in the Gordon "Inferno" MS,
No. 3803 (14 December 1931) for "The One-Eyed Reilly. " These various
Slime and Inferno titles are lessons in the singers' ambivalent
feelings about their bawdy songs. Compare the bold acceptance of Songs of
Sadism, etc.; and Full Dress Suits and Plenty of Whores, q.v.;
but also "Toshka BARPH"; and The Dung Heap & Cesspool Cleaners Gazette,
1980.
Smile and the World Smiles With You . . . My Contribution to
the Mirth and Good Fellowship of My Friends on Guam, 1948. 1952. (5th
edition, 23 May 1952.) 21 pp., 4to, mimeographed. (Copy: Harry P. Johnson,
Arlington, Va.) Army miscellany of off-color jokes, poems, etc.
SMITH, Courtney C. 1944. Restoration Drolleries. See at: STOKES.
SMITH, Paul. 1984. The Complete Book of Office Mis-Practice.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Reprinted 1985, Guild Publishing Book Club.
Humorous and often bawdy modern xeroxlore, with section of pictorial
forms and final section of "Verse & Worse," pp. 161-175. See larger American
collections by DUNDES and PAGTER, and ORR and PRESTON, plus similar German
collections, and Smith's second volume, Reproduction Is Fun (London,
1986).
SMITH, Sydney Goodsir. 1950. Burns and The Merry Muses of Caledonia.
Arena (London) No. 4. Reprinted with expurgations in The Hudson
Review (New York, 1954) vol. 7. This splendid essay was intended as
Introduction to Smith's edition, with James Barke, of The Merry Muses of
Caledonia (Edinburgh, 1959), but was unfortunately replaced there by a
different Introduction by Barke, mostly drivel.
SMITH, Thomas R. 1921-22. Poética Erotica: A Collection of Rare and
Curious Amatory Verse. New York: Published for Subscribers Only by Boni
& Liveright. 3 vols., 8vo. (PC. 1477; Kinsey-ISR.) Abridged edition, 1927.
xxx, 770 pp., lg.8vo. Reprinted [c. 1933], New York: Crown
Publishers. Largely reprints of material from FARMER'S Merry Songs and
Ballads, q.v., with modern art poetry added as vol. 3, "Supplementary
Poems" (p. 550 to end, in 1-vol. edition). Smith was the literary editor of
the publishing firm of Horace Liveright. His anonymous Immortalia
(1927), and possibly The (Reno) "Wrecks," are the erotic folk
supplements to this work. Compare: COLE; also Parnasse Satyrique.
SMITH, Vincent. See: Anecdota Americana: Second Series.
SMITH-HUGHES, Jack. 1953. Eight Studies injustice. London:
Cassell. Refers, p. 32 ff. to the case in 1902, at Peasenhall, Suffolk, of a
girl seduced and murdered by a Primitive Methodist elder, who went scot-free
owing to evidence that the murdered girl "had been sufficiently intrigued by
the pornographic ditties sung by the younger villagers of an evening to
request the youth who lived next door to supply her with written copies of
these edifying verses." These were made available to the jury in private,
but were not read out in open court, and form no part of the record.
Snatches & Lays. Songs Miss Lilywhite Should never have taught us.
1962. Edited by Sebastian Hogbotel & Simon ffuckes [pseuds.: Kenneth
GOTT and Stephen MURRAY-SMITH. Melbourne, Australia.] 82 pp. 4to,
mimeographed. Only the cover, title page, and pp. 28, 38, and 41 are now
unique, these including the following items omitted from the printed edition
(below) as sacrilegious: "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Jesus Christ and Mary
Magdalene; noted as from The First Boke of Fowle Ayres, Sydney,
1944), "All the Saints in Kingdom Come," and "Sydney Orr," a topical parody
of "Samuel Hall." Not to be confused with the similar Australian mimeo
publication of close date, Be Pure! (Argus Tuft's Compendium of Verse).
Note: Ian Turner, to whom I erroneously ascribed the editing of
Snatches & Lays in Southern Folklore Quarterly (1976) vol. 40:73
ff, did not edit but only contributed to this collection of bawdy student
and rugby-team songs. Part of the materials were also placed under
contribution from Donald Laycock's similar MS collection, Obiter Dicta,
as complained of by him in "Digging Up the Dirt," in National Review
(Australia, 20 February 1976).
_________. 1973. Same. Snatches & Lays. Hogbotel & ffuckes.
Melbourne: Sun Books. 112 pp., 4to. First printed edition, publicly issued.
Omits (from the original edition of 1962) as sacrilegious the three songs
listed above, but retains "The Ballad of Merry Mary," p. 67, on the B.V.M.
________. 1975. Same, enlarged. (Facsimile title of 1962 edition.) Hong
Kong: Boozy Company, P.O. Box 20561, Causeway Bay [The Authors]. (3), xii,
147 pp., 12mo. The best edition, reedited by K. D. Gott, with additions.
This edition was reviewed by Nick Quinn in a Far East journalists' magazine,
The Correspondent (Hong Kong, February 1976), clarifying the senior
editor's name and marvellously captioned: "GOTT IN HYMNAL!"
Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden. See: Aleister CROWLEY.
The Sod's Opera, "by GILBERT & SULLIVAN." See: Harlequin Prince
Cherrytop [by G. A. SALA.]
Soixante-neuf (69) Chansons. 1947. [Illustrations de Paul CLAUDE.
Paris?] Collection of French students' Chansons de Salles de Garde.
SOLA PINTO, Vivian de. See: PINTO.
Some Yarns! Love and laugh. 1918. (Cover subtitle: A pocketfull of
funny, nutty, risky, spicy, naughty . . . stories.) Paris: Librairie des
Éditions Modernes [Charles Carrington]. 128 pp., 12mo. (Copy: Kinsey-ISR.)
Compare: The Rakish Rhymer; and Tropical Tales, by "KIMBO."
Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive. See: Pills to Purge
Melancholy.
Songs for the Suds. A Collection of College Party Songs. 1957.
(Collection by Miss W.M.D.) MS, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Included in toto
in the Randolph MS. Supplement, q.v. The "suds" are beer, these
being bawdy songs for beer-busts.
Songs My Mother Never Taught Me. 1944. [New York: Pershing Rifles,
City College.] Mimeographed, with a short section of limericks titled
"Shitty Ditties." Compare: The Slime Sheet. Note: This work and the
next not to be confused with the mild, publicly issued collection of same
title (1929) by John J. NILES et al.
Songs My Mother Never Taught Me. 1963. (At head: Prudes Stay
Out). [Bloomington, Indiana.] 22 f., MS, by Richard REUSS, q.v. 4to,
photocopied from typewriting. (Copies: Richard Reuss, Ann Arbor, Mich.; G.
Legman.) College bawdy song collection made at Ohio Wesleyan University and
Indiana University in men's fraternities.
Songs of the Airdales In The Pacific. c. 1944. [Australia: Air
Forces]. (At head: Restricted Material. Restricted to:—Your Mother,
Your Girlfriend(s), The Chaplain, Wonks, Polly Wogs & The W.C.T.U.
Presenting, from a private collection, Anonymous.) 22 f., folio,
mimeographed. (Copy: G. Legman.) Rather similar in contents, though texts
are not identical, to the Canadian mimeographed folio, North Atlantic
Squadron.
Songs of Raunch and Ill-Repute: A Collection of songs for beer
parties, stags, and church youth groups. [1958.] [Edited by David
SINGMASTER and Larry CRISSMAN.] Pasadena, Calif.: SORAIR, Ricketts House,
California Institute of Technology. ii, 31 f., 4to, mimeographed. (Copy: G.
Legman.) Notable is the attempted division of the songs in the table of
contents into levels of "nastiness" by means of a system of asterisks and
dashes: "*Very very nasty; — Not so nasty; If they're blank, you can show
them to your mother." Note: Owing to the tactical error, at that date, of
giving the student society's correct name and address on the title, this
work was seized by the authorities and most of the edition destroyed.
Songs of Roving and Raking. 1961. [John WALSH, ed. Champaign,
Illinois: The Back Room Press]. iv, 125 f., 4to, with music, hektographed.
(Copy: G. Legman.) Very competently edited and organized, with the musical
notation.
_________1972. Same, enlarged, as: Roll Me Over. Harry
BABAD, ed. Compiled and collected at the University of Illinois by the
Illini Folk Arts Society. New York: Oak Publications. 144 pp., 4to. No
changes made except the small additions credited to Oscar BRAND. Compare:
SILVERMAN, The Dirty Song Book, for publication style.
Songs of Sadism and Lust, Rape, Brutality, and other Goodies (that
will make you G-nash your teeth). 1942-44. Composed, Caligraphed [sic]
and Illuminated by G. LEGMAN[!] and the Rotten-Bastards Mariachi Band —
Motherfuckers All! MS, New Brunswick, N.J., and New York, N.Y. 48 pp., 4to,
typewritten. (Copy: G. Legman, who is not the author.) Edited and
largely written by Robert BRAGG ("Robert De Mexico"). An autograph album
collection, group-written, of mock and parodied folksongs and antigallant
exercises, as the title indicates, to mock or punish the purported editor
for having expurgated a sadistic mimeographed manuscript, The Devil's
Advocate [by Robert SEWALL], one of the contributors. Includes "Violate
Me In Violet Time" [by William SOSKIN], which entered authentic
folk-circulation during World War II, being sung by soldiers in the
character of a passion-swept girl. Compare: CROWLEY; Cythera's Hymnal;
Dirt: An Exegesis; Painful Poems; and [A. C. SWINBURNE], The
Whippingham Papers.
Songs of Silence. See: [Peter BUCHAN], Secret Songs of Silence.
SPAETH, Sigmund. The Facts of Life in Popular Song. 1934. New
York: McGraw-Hill. Title article first appeared in American Spectator.
Various other superficial articles on this theme: Shirley WILSON,
"Censor Nonsense!" in: Popular Songs (N.Y., December 1934); Bennett
CERF, "Who Decides what songs the American public may hear?" in: Saturday
Review of Literature (New York, 8 March 1947); Philip WYLIE, "Songs for
Sinners," in: Music Business (June 1950) p. 12; and the following.
________. "Salacious In Our Alley: The Sallies of our Tin Pan
Alley Songwriters are Getting a
Bit That Way." 1945. MS, New York. (Copy: G. Legman.) Unpublished
article, written by Spaeth on assignment for Fulton Oursler, editor of
Liberty Magazine, but never published, as Spaeth explained, "Oursler
evidently losing his nerve." Compare: EGLIS; NIEMOELLER; OLIVER; TOBIASON;
and URDANG.
SPEAIGHT, George. 1975. Bawdy Songs of the Early Music Hall.
Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. 96 pp., sm.4to. Reprints a number of
bawdy parodies from "smutty songsters" of the 1850s, with their tunes.
Compare: NETTEL; SCOTT; The Cuckold's Nest; and The Rambler's
Flash Songster; also The Rakish Rhymer.
Spicy Breezes. c. 1930. [Vignette: two black cats affrontés.
United States]. 52 pp., 12mo. (Unique copy: Kinsey-ISR.) Erotic humor
miscellany of prose and verse. Note: A typographically very similar pamphlet
of close date also exists, giving all the purple passages from PETRONIUS
Arbiter's Satyricon in English translation, to accompany an
expurgated 1920s edition. In this case the two title animals are goats.
Title page: "Supplement to the Satyricon of T. PETRONIUS Arbiter:
Containing Precise Paraphrases of Particular and Peculiar Portions which as
a Precautionary Pandering to Prudence, Prudery, Prejudice or Policy were not
Permitted to be Present in Previous Publications Produced for the Public,
and are now Privately Printed." [Philadelphia? Satyr Bookshop?] 1926. (8)
pp., 16mo. Noted as "Satyr Series of Supplements, No. 1," but no more
published. The indicated pagination refers this supplement to the expurgated
edition of the Satyricon of Petronius published in London: Simpkin,
Marshall [c. 1925?] in the Abbey Classics series, No. 18. (Copy: G.
Legman.)
SPINKLER, Edgar. 1913. Gross-Russische erotische Volkdichtung.
Anthropophytéia 10:330-353. Discussion in German, and untranslated
examples in Russian only, owing to government censorship case against
Anthropophytéia, of which this was therefore the final volume. The 67 or
more full Russian texts of the songs (and German translations?) not printed
here were presumably to be issued privately by the editor, Friedrich S.
KRAUSS, strictly for "Gelehrten unter geschlossenem Umschlag." This
supplementary fascicule, if it was actually printed off from the set type,
has not been seen. See also: KRAUSS and WEBINGER, and compare: Mejdu
Druziami; and Luka Mudishchev, which is noted by Spinkler at
10:353. Also: Folklore de la Grande Russie (et de l'Ukraine).
Der Spittelberg und seine Lieder. See: BLÜMML.
Splinters from the Log-book of "Our" Lodge. What I Saw and Heard,
Through the Keyhole of Room Number [?] the First Night of the Marriage of a
Young Couple. c. 1890. [England?] Broadside, folio. (Unique copy: Leslie
Shepard, Dublin.) Erotic broadside ballad, one of the latest such in date
ever recovered, possibly issued for a Masonic lodge. Some earlier owner of
this very folded and dilapidated copy has written in ink in the top margin:
"Read & Burn."
Sportive Wit: The Muses Merriment. A New Spring of Lusty Drollery,
Joviall Fancies, and A la mode Lampounes . . . Collected for the Publick
good, by a Club of Sparkling Wits. 1656. London: Nath. Brook. (Copy:
Bodleian Library; and MS copy, Harvard University) Edited by John PHILLIPS,
the nephew of Milton. Original title was to have been Love and Mirth, or
Jovial Drollery. All copies were ordered destroyed by the Puritan
authorities on publication. The rarest of the drolleries and one of the most
interesting. See "The First Beginning," reprinted by WARDROPER, Love &
Drollery, No. 385, the original text of a song now extant only in
nursery expurgation, with the (jesting) remark that this sample "will make
some readers wish no copy of the book had escaped Cromwell's burning order."
See also: Courtney SMITH; at STOKES.
Stag Bar Supplement to Songs of S.E.A. and other places, other things
(Item 2). c. 1967? [Ubon, Thailand? "Wolfpack" 8th Tactical
Fighter Wing] Supplement of bawdy songs to main collection, Songs of
S.E.A. (provenance probably as above. Copy: C. Wm. Getz, who gives this
provenance in his own "Stag Bar Supplement" to The Wild Blue
Yonder, 1986, vol. II: section TT, page 3, col. 2.) See also: BENTLY;
BURKE; HOPKINS; STARR; and WALLRICH.
The Stag Party. 1888-89. (This Book contains:. . . The Chestnut
Club Yarns . . . and thousands of other stories, full of pith and point).
[Chicago: Daily News Press? or Boston: The Papyrus Club?]. (296) pp.,
unnumbered, 12mo. (Only three copies known: Kinsey-ISR; Denver Public
Library; and Yale University Library, defective, lacking 2 leaves.) The Yale
copy contains an important MS annotation on Eugene FIELD'S editing of this
work, and his close escape from legal trouble because of it: "See Luyeneker
on the Grand Jury & Gene Field's Books — He recommended an indictment —
Freeman was Field's friend & saved him." Date of the book is shown by
reference (p. 144) to defeat of Grover Cleveland in the 1888 presidential
election, observing that "he will never see Washington again"; thus unaware
that he was reelected in 1892. See other internal proofs from dates of
Field's erotic writings by 1889, in Harry J. MOONEY, Jr., "The Sub Rosa
Writings of Eugene Field," in: Papers of the Bibliographical Society
of America (1978) 72:541-552, based on Field MSS in the Denver Public
Library, Fieldiana Collection; and elsewhere. The Stag Party gives a
very large repertory of American humorous erotic poems, storiettes, and
obscœna, including almost all the erotic pieces by Eugene FIELD, whose
classic pornographicum "Only A Boy?" is here first printed. Of
contemporary collections, only Select Reading, q.v., approaches this
in repertory; and compare: Bibliothèque Erotique; Cleopatra's Scrapbook;
The Book of a Thousand Laughs and Select Reading. A perhaps
similar work, The Proceedings of the Sackahoominy Society [Boston,
Mass.] 1860, 12mo, is noted in Clowes's Bibliotheca Arcana (1885) no.
517, but no copy is known and this may have been of erotic tales only,
without verse, except in the stories, as with Randiana, q.v. On the
early Italian origins of these erotic and burlesque "academies," see G.
LEGMAN, The Horn Book, pp. 384, 476; and Gaudeamus Igitur,
here.
STARR, William J. 1958. The Fighter Pilots Hymn Book. [Cannon Air
Force Base, Cannon, N.M.]. (1), v, 121 f., 4to, hektographed; with f. 9a,
and an almost illegible Smegmafax Addenda (1959), comprising f.
122-152, not present in most of the 100 copies issued. (Copy: G. Legman.)
The best and most extensive of the American Air Force privately issued bawdy
song collections, and one of the few giving the compiler's name. (Compare:
ANDERS.) Based in part on a similar collection, Stovepipe Serenade,
by a woman, Logan BENTLY; and Death Rattlers, 1951. Compare: Aloha
Jigpoha; North Atlantic Squadron; GETZ; HOPKINS; PAGE; and WALLRICH.
STAUB, Théo. 1981. L'Enfer erotique de la chanson folklorique
française. Plan de la Tour (Var), France: Éditions d'Aujourd'hui. 2
vols. in 1, sq.8vo, reproduced from typewriting. Ph.D. thesis (Université de
Nice, May 1978), the author being in his seventies. Outstandingly the best,
and only scholarly edition of the French students' erotic Chansons de
Salles de Garde, q.v. The author's introduction is not on a par with his
critical and historical notes to the text, but opens the subject of French
medical and art student obscenity to serious discussion. Compare: MARTY;
LENOIR; DOMINIQUE; REUSS; TILLOT; and Anthologie Hospitalière et
Latinesque. Note also: Tonus, in the DISCOGRAPHY, in progress.
STERN-SZANA, Bernhard. 1903. Medizin, Aberglaube, und Geschlechtsleben
in der Türkei. Berlin. 2 vols., lg.8vo. Similar to Stern's work on
Russia, below. There is also material on the bibliography of erotic folklore
in his private book collection catalogue, Bibliotheca curiosa et erotica,
Privatdruck [Wien, 1921].
_________1907-19. Geschichte der öffentlichen Sittlichkeit in
Russland: Kultur, Aberglaube, Kirche, Klerus, Sekten, etc. Berlin:
Barsdorf. 2 vols., lg.8vo. Final chapter 10, "Folkloristische Dokumente,"
including erotic rhymes, proverbs, songs, etc., vol. 2:579-616. Compare:
SPINKLER; also Folklore de la Grande Russie (et de l'Ukraine);
Luka Mudishchev; and Mejdu Druziami.
STEVENSON, Burton. 1944. The Home Book of Quotations. 4th edition.
New York: Dodd, Mead. Valuable sampling of ephemeral "popular" song
refrains, pp. 1881-1883, and Appendix, pp. 2273-2298.
ST.-GEORGES, Élie de. See: SAINT-GEORGES.
STOKES, Joseph. 1935. Wit and Drollery, 1656. MS, New Haven, Conn.
Yale University dissertation, on the drolleries. (Copy: Yale Alumni
Society.) See: Sportive Wit; and Courtney C. SMITH, 1944.
Restoration Drolleries and Jestbooks. Harvard Ph.D. thesis. 622pp.
(Copy: Harvard Archival Laboratory, No. 3277.)
STOLZ, Sandra. 1961. Some Humorous Songs of Texas Young People.
MS, Austin, Texas. 26 f., 4to, typewritten. (Copies: Roger Abrahams; G.
Legman.) College course assignment paper, divided into "Children's Songs,"
mostly aggressive, and "College Songs," mostly bawdy. Of the latter Stolz
observes: "Two helpful [male] friends wrote down the verses they were
embarrassed to sing to me and sent them by mail." Compare: Texas
Fraternity Songs; and GOLDSTONE.
The Story of a Dildoe, A Tale in five Tableaux. 1880. London:
Privately Printed [W. Lazenby]. 44 pp., 8vo. Limited to 150 copies. (Copy:
G. Legman.) Reprinted, Atlanta, Georgia, c. 1968. A side publication
of The Pearl, q.v., interspersed with erotic poems. Another edition
of The Story of a Dildoe, "London, 1891," contains 88 pages, 12mo.
(Enfer 151), with poem at end. On the literature of dildos, see:
"Alexandre de Vérineau" [Louis PERCEAU], Les Priapées, 1921.
Stovepipe Serenade. 1954. (2d edition 1956.) Logan BENTLY, ed.
q.v. See: STARR.
STRASBURGER, E. H. 1903. Dirnenund Gassenlieder. Zürich.
Prostitutes' songs. Compare: PENKERT; PETER; and BLÜMML and GUGITZ.
STÜCKRATH, Otto. "Lieder der Sinnlichkeit," in Anthropophytéia.
See his "Leberreime aus alter und neuer Zeit," in: KRAUSS and WEBINGER (Anthropophytéia:
Beiwerke, vol. 9.)
The Sugar of Life. 1854. [London: Dugdale?] (Copy: G. Legman.)
Semierotic miscellany in verse.
Super Sex to Sexty. See: Sex to Sexty.
Super Stag Treasury, [c. 1964]. Revised edition. Los
Angeles: Mada Distributing Co. (Copy: Edward Cray, Los Angeles.) Includes
bawdy verse, of Army provenance.
SUSCINIS, Jean. [1950?] Chansons de la mer et de la voile. Paris.
See: HaYET; ROY; and HUGILL.
"SUSRUTA II, Dr." pseud. 1910. Englische Volklieder (und
Sprichwörter) aus Indien. Anthropophytéia 7:375-382. Erotic songs,
poems, and proverbs collected from English soldiers, etc. in India, with
jokes and riddles in same, vol. 7:238, 336-337. Note: Along with three short
and mostly archaic English erotic glossaries, these brief items sent by "Dr.
Susruta II" from India are the entirety of English-language erotic
folklore in the 19 massive volumes and "Beiwerke" of Anthropophytéia,
and 12 volumes of Kryptádia earlier. See also: "Dr. S."
_________. 1911. Englische Soldatenlieder aus Zentralindien.
Anthropophytéia 8:374.
_________. 1911-12. Hindu-Erotik in der Gegenwart: Ein Reisebericht aus
Zentral-indien. Anthropophytéia 8:244-250, and 9:252-255. Gives 11
modern erotic verse couplets from India, with German translation. Note: This
brief sample is unfortunately the only material on Near or Far Eastern
erotic song (including Chinese and Japanese) listed in the present
Bibliography. There are also almost no materials from Africa or Oceania.
SUTTON-SMITH, Brian, and David M. ABRAMS. 1976. Psychosexual Material
in the Stories told by Children: The Fucker. (Paper presented at the
First International Congress on Sexology, Montreal, 1976.) 31 f., 4to.
Sutton-Smith's earlier book on The Games of New Zealand Schoolchildren
was regrettably totally expurgated by the publisher. Compare: BORNEMAN;
GAIGNEBET; KER; LOWENSTEIN; McCOSH; and TURNER.
Sweet Violets. 1939. MS, Cambridge, Mass. (Copy: Harry Brown,
"college poet.") House-book or album of erotic poetry, compiled by
successive generations of students at the Fox Club, Harvard College.
Compare: Oxford University; Lyra Ebriosa; REUSS; and various private
college publications above, under: Songs ... ; Fox Club; and
OXFORD.
[SWINBURNE, Algernon C.]. 1888. The Whippingham Papers. A
Collection of Contributions in Prose and Verse, chiefly by the Author of
The Romance of Chastisement. London [Edward Avery, 1887]. 8vo, separate
paginations. (Only known copies: PC. 1876-1877, the T. J. Wise and H.
Spencer Ashbee copies; Kinsey-ISR, the Havelock Ellis-G. Legman copy.)
Repulsive flagellational poems by Swinburne and St. George H. Stock, author
of The Romance of Chastisement (1871: PC. 1740). Various similar
poems in The Pearl are also attributed to Swinburne: in particular
"Charlie Collingwood's Flogging, by Etoniensis" (No. 3, September 1879), and
"Frank Fane — a Ballad" (No. 11, May 1880). The title of this venomous work
was reprised by the erotica publisher Charles Carrington, about 1900, for a
more normal item, The Riding-cocke Papers, of which no repository
copy is known.
Symposium on Obscenity in Folklore. 1962. [Tristram COFFIN and
Roger ABRAHAMS, eds.] Journal of American Folklore vol. 75:189-265. A
ground-breaking initiative, first time in America.
TABLER, Barbara, and James ANGELO. [c. 1980]. Bawdy-&-Soul
Singing Limericks. Berkeley, Calif.: Bar None Press. (Copy: Dr. Arthur
Deex, Los Altos Hills, Calif.)
[TABOUROT, Estienne]. 1615. Les Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords.
Lyon: Richer. Enlarged edition of important late-16th-century work on,
and anthology of, forms of humor, obscœna, etc. Compare: Musarum Deliciæ;
Wit's Recreations; PEIGNOT; RHODI; SANTA-CRUZ; and further G. Legman,
The Horn Book, pp. 481-487.
TALLEY, Thomas. 1922. Negro Folk Rhymes. New York. Compare:
PERROW; and NORTHALL.
TATE, Brad. 1973. Australian and International Bawdy Songs and Verses.
MS, Newcastle, New South Wales. 125 f., 4to, photocopied from
typewriting. (Copy: G. Legman.)
________. 1982. Same, as: The Bastard from the Bush: Obscene Songs and
Ballads of Australian Origin. Part 1 of the Brad Tate Collection.
Kuranda, Queensland: Rams Skull Press. (Australian Folklore: Occasional
Papers, No. 11.) 74 pp., 4to. Limited to 200 copies. (Copy: G. Legman.)
Compare: EDWARDS; MEREDITH; also, for student and rugby songs, Argus
Tuft's Companion; Snatches & Lays; and LAYCOCK.
TAYLOR, H. Hoyt. 1924. The Frankie and Johnnie Variants. MS, Rome,
New York. 4to, typewritten. A collection of 13 texts of the American Negro
folk-ballad of the 1890s, "Frankie and Albert," now called "FRANKIE AND
JOHNNIE," made at Stanford University and Los Angeles. A copy of this MS was
supplied to John HUSTON for his study of this ballad; another to the Robert
W. GORDON collection, and a final copy to G. Legman for the present work in
1956.
The Tenth Muse Lately Hung Up in America: being Lewd Lines and Vulgar
Verses, Newly inscribed by A Gentleman [Dr. Jack LOWENHERZ]. 1958. MS,
New York. 4to, typewritten. (Copy: G. Legman) Mostly original limericks.
Texas Fraternity Songs. (Deep In the Heart of Texas.) 1961.
[Austin, Tex.] 24 f., 4to, hektographed. (Copies: Roger Abrahams; G.
Legman.) Anonymous; title page missing in copy seen; f. 2 begins with
"Parodies: Indicate the Way." Includes "Bawdy and Sacrilegious Songs, and
Songs of Race [i.e., anti-Negro]," f. 10-15; plus f. 19-24 (unnumbered)
containing the bawdier songs stencilled on a different typewriter. Compare:
STOLZ.
THOMAS, Dylan. 1953. A Kiss for Your Crotch, My Love. New York;
photostatic broadside, pænes "his fellow alcoholic," Seámus Ennis, La
Jolla, Calif. 1964. See PUTNAM.
THOMAS, Gates. 1926-28. South Texas Negro Work Songs.
(Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, 1926, No. 5; and 1928, No. 7.)
Collection made 1887-1905; expurgated as issued, but an important early
record of text circulation. Compare: PERROW; and Lomax MSS.
THOMPSON, Harold W. 1939. Body, Boots and Britches. Philadelphia:
Lippincott. New York State folklore. Same, 1979. Thomas O'Donnell, ed.
Syracuse University Press.
THOMSON, William. 1725. Orpheus Caledonius. London. Enlarged 2d
edition, 1733. 2 vols., 4to. Reprinted 1962 in facsimile, Hatboro, Penn.:
Folklore Associates. Gives the music to Scottish songs from RAMSAY'S
Tea-Table Miscellany, q.v. Compare: Scots Musical Museum.
THORP, N. Howard "Jack." 1966. Songs of the Cowboys. Austin and
Alta FIFE, eds. New York: Clarkson Potter, Inc. Restores certain of the
texts expurgated in the original edition of 1908 and enlargement of 1921.
Compare: FIFE; LINGENFELTER; John A. Lomax MSS.; and especially
LOGSDON-NEAL, the only unexpurgated of all the other cowboy song
collections.
TILLOT, Émile. 1874-1883. Chansons médicales. Paris: Husinger.
(28), (46) pp., 16mo, the songs separately numbered. (Unique copy:
Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine, Paris, Nos. 58509, "Mélanges"; and
76942, the two parts being shelved separately, as listed by Théo Staub.)
Published at the author's own expense; the first "medical" edition of any of
the French students' Chansons de Salles de Garde, q.v. Of these 16
apparent originals by Dr. Tillot, only one, "La Salle de Garde," is still in
oral transmission. Cf. STAUB; and Marie.
TOBIASON, James. 1959-60. Sexual Symbolism in the Popular Negro Blues.
MS, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. 5 pts., 4to, photoprinted from
typewriting. (Copies: Kinsey-ISR; Peter Tamony, San Francisco; G. Legman.)
Pt. 1: 20 f.; Pt. 2, subtitled "Symbols for the Sex Organs," 13 f.; Pts. 3-5
(1960), "Negro Songs of the 1920s and '30s" and "Negro Songs of the 1950s,"
followed by a "Glossary of Terms and Phrases having sexual connotations,
from blues recordings." Compare: JOHNSON; NIEMOELLER; SPAETH; URDANG; and
especially OLIVER. Note that the cultivated white interest in Negro jazz and
blues recordings dates seriously, except in France, from an article by the
Negro cartoonist E. Simms CAMPBELL in Esquire magazine (December
1938), but took another decade to become significantly large, with reissues
by the record companies not in the "Race" [Negro] catalog.
TOELKEN, J. Barre. 1968. The Folklore of Academe. In The Study of
American Folklore, Harold BRUNVAND, ed., pp. 317-337. New York: Norton.
On college folklore and songs.
Tradição (Da) oral Portuguesa. 1899. Kryptádia. 6:384-390.
Portuguese erotic songs and riddles.
A Treasury of Erotic and Facetious Memorabilia. c. 1910/20.
[Compiled by Henry N. CARY.] MS Chicago? (Copy: Kinsey-ISR, formerly G.
Legman.) Facetiæ collection, mostly jokes, but including Mark TWAIN'S The
Mammoth Cod (and its covering letters), here disguised as by "Petroleum
V. Nasby." The erotic slang dictionary compiled by Cary, a Chicago
newspaperman, though largely plagiarized from Farmer and Henley's Slang
and Its Analogues (1890-1909), also contains much of interest, as:
The Slang of Venery and Its Analogues (1916, Chicago), 3 vols. folio,
mimeographed. (Copies: PC. 340; NYPL, 3*; G. Legman; Kinsey-ISR. This copy
contains large further MS additions.)
[TRELDEWEHR, Alfred Klement von]. 1922. Das Wirtshaus an der Lahn,
hrsg. von Franz Graf Westenham [pseud.] With illustrations by
S. Sido. Bawdy four-liners. See: P. Englisch, in: HAYNGOTENDORF, vol. 9, p.
633; also WELLS, and Das Wirtshaus an der Lahn, below.
[_________]. 1970. Same, as: Das Wirtshaus an der Lahn. Das
unsterbliche Epos von der Frau Wirtin. Hanau: Schustek. 38 pp., 4to,
with illustrations by Jean Veenenbos, concentrating on the ugly. Compare:
Das sind unsere Lieder.
Trois Orfèvres à la Saint-Éloi . . . du Quartier Latin à la Salle de
Garde. 1930. "En Sorbonne, pour l'esbaudissement des escholiers, 1430"
[Paris: Guibal, for Edmond D. Bernard?]. (The first word of the title given
as the number: 3.) 1 vol. in 2: 587 pp., 8vo. (Copies: A.
Kahn-Sriber, Paris; G. Legman.) Partial reprint of Anthologie
Hospitalière et Latinesque, q.v., edited by Bernard. Some copies have an
added set of erotic plates, in two styles — coarse and sophisticated — [by
Sternberg].
_________1930. Same. [Paris: Edmond D. Bernard.] 2 vols.: 258 and 295
pp., 8vo. (PC. 1799; G. Legman.) Note: In this 2-volume edition new
materials are added, vol. 2, pp. 226-295.
Tropicana. c. 1964. MS, Kingston, Jamaica. 4to, typewritten. Small
collection of bawdy West Indian "Calypso" songs in English, prepared for the
present research by a professional singer.
"TUFT, Argus," pseud.! See: Argus Tuft's Compendium.
Tune: My Bonny. See: North Atlantic Squadron.
TURNER, Ian. 1969. Cinderella Dressed in Yella. Melbourne:
Heinemann. v, 153pp., 4to. The best collection of children's (mainly bawdy)
rhymes in English. Compare: BORNEMAN; GAIGNEBET; KER; LOWENSTEIN; McCOSH;
OPIE; and SUTTON-SMITH.
________. 1978. Same. June Factor and Wendy Lowenstein, eds. Melbourne:
Heinemann. x, 174 pp., 4to. Valuably enlarged. Compare: LOWENSTEIN.
The Turquoise Book of Locker-Room Humor. 1980. Toronto: Peek-A-Boo
Press [Rexdale, Ontario: Coles Pub. Co.]. See: Locker Room Humor.
Tuso, Joseph F. 1971. Folksongs of the American Fighter Pilot in
Southeast Asia, 1967-1968. Folklore Forum: Bibliographical and
Special Series 7:1-39. Compare: BURKE; FISH; and GETZ.
"TWAIN, Mark" pseud. of: Samuel L. CLEMENS. 1976. The Mammoth
Cod, and Address to the Stomach Club. Edited with an Introduction by G.
Legman. Milwaukee, Wisc.: Maledicta. (5), 26 pp., sq.8vo. Written in 1902,
and here first published with the covering letters, as discovered in A
Treasury of Facetious Memorabilia, q. v.
UNEXPURGATED. 1943. Bidet Press [Los Angeles]. (8), 65 pp.,
sm.8vo. Limited to 250 copies. (Copy: G. Legman.) [Edited by Earl EISINGER,
Edith HOLDEN, and Ralph BROWN.] Bawdy limericks to p. 38, followed by
class-conscious erotic "Folk Songs," including two political (Trotskyite)
satirical pieces.
________. ante 1951. Same, as: Unexpurgated. R. Schloch,
Ph.D. [pseud.], ed. The Open Box Press [California]. (5), 64
pp., 8vo. Limited to 500 copies. With an introduction, "Half-concealed is
more than half-revealed. " Omits the two Trotskyite satires, the editors
having now parted company. Owing to an error in printing the title page —
intended to be two-color — some copies have no title at all.
The Unexpurgated Folk Songs of Men. 1964. (Booklet of texts and
discussion by Mack McCORMICK, q.v., accompanying an anonymously issued
phonograph recording of same title, Berkeley. See: DISCOGRAPHY, in
progress.)
Union Jack. 1948-58. MS, Chelmsford, Essex, England. Collection of
bawdy folk-poems, songs and jokes [made by Robert ASH], in part from inmates
at Chelmsford Prison.
UNTERMEYER, Louis. 1957. A Treasury of Ribaldry. London: Elek
Books, 1957; also New York, 1959. Very mild; compare: Rowdy Rhymes;
and "John Henry JOHNSON."
UPDIKE, John. 1977. Tossing and Turning: Poems. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf. (9), 87 pp., sm.8vo. Includes "Cunts," "Pussy: A Preliminary
Epithalamium," and other erotic poems first published 1976, as: Six
Poems, New York: Frank Hallman. Compare: AUDEN; ELIOT; FICKE; MARQUIS;
and especially GUTHRIE; and PUTNAM; also anthologies by COLE; and T. R.
SMITH.
URDANG, Laurence. 1981. I Wanna Hot Dog for My Roll: Suggestive Song
Titles. Maledicta 5:69-75. Compare: Guy JOHNSON; NIEMOELLER; SPAETH;
and especially TOBIASON; and OLIVER.
URNL: A Manuscript. 1901. "Found in the Drawer of the Library
Table of the Milwaukee Club." Edited and annotated by the Perpetual Poet
Laureate of the URNL Club. Frontispiece from an original etching by Van
Ostade. [Milwaukee, Wisc.] Done at the Pewaukee Press. 71 f., sq.16mo.
Limited to 100 copies. (Copy: G. Legman.) In verse, turning on the "Urinal"
title and name of the private club, with mock apparatus criticus,
signed "Aquarius, the Waterman." Compare: The Stag Party; and
Select Reading, of very similar appearance.
[UTTERSON, Edward V.] 1817-25. Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry.
Republished principally from early printed copies, in the black letter.
London: Longman, 2 vols., 8vo. Compare: Jyl of Brentford's
Testament; FRY; and MAIDMENT.
VAN GENNEP, Arnold. 1937. Manuel de Folklore contemporaine. Paris.
On expurgation of folklore, vol. 4, p. 768. "VERB, Edouard de," pseud.
See: FICKE.
"VICARRION, Count Palmiro," pseud. See: LOGUE.
Vierzeilen aus den Oesterreichischen Alpen. 1888. Kryptádia
4:79-133. The first published collection [by Gustav MEYER] of the erotic
"Schnadahüpfeln" four-liners. Compare: BLÜMML; HAND; KRAUSS; also Das
Wirtshaus an der Lahn.
VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Eugène. La Bibliothèque poétique, ou Catalogue des
livres composant [sa] Bibliothèque. Avec des notes
bibliographiques sur chacun des ouvrages. 1843. Paris. Reprinted 1859,
edited by A. Méray, Paris. Important private collection catalogue, forming a
bibliography of French songbooks from the beginning to that date. For later
works see the Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, par M.
le C. d'*** [Jules GAY and J. LEMONNYER], 2d edition, subject-arranged; and
4th édition, 1894-1900, 4 vols.; and Pascal PIA, Les Livres de l'Enfer,
Paris: Coulet & Faure, 1978.
"VOEGELIN, Beppo, Freiherr von," pseud. 1969. Frau Wirtin in
Klassikers Munde, oder Die Wirtin an der Lahn als literarisches Phänomen,
der Feder meist gymnasial zu lesender Dichter entsprungen. Hrsg. und mit
stilkritischen Kommentaren versehen. "Gräfelfing: Wissenschaftliche
Verlagsanstalt zur Pflege deutschen Sinngutes" [München: Moos Verlag].
(Klassiker-Ausgaben der Wissenschaftlichen Verlagsanstalt zur Pflege
deutschen Sinngutes, Nr. 1.) 78 pp., lg.8vo. The Germanic equivalent of
English-language bawdy limericks, here soberly attributed to Goethe, Kafka,
etc., with stylistic mock commentary (in the style of Norman DOUGLAS'S
Some Limericks). Compare: Die Wirtshaus an der Lahn; and [G.
LEGMAN], The Ballast Value of the PHTH-Phoneme.
VOLKOV, Th. See: Folklore de l'Ukraine.
Volks-Erotik. Nichts für Kinder! 1968. Hanau: Verlag Karl
Schustek. 199 pp., 4to, with delightful humorous illustrations by Alex
Székely and Jean Veenenbos. German students' and soldiers' bawdy songs and
obscœna, stated by the publisher-editor to have been taken from KRAUSS'S
erotic folklore journal, Anthropophytéia. Possibly edited by Peter
RÜHMKORF. Compare: Arschwische; and Lacht zum Bescheissen.
VORBERG, Gaston, and W. BÄHR. 1920. Meisterstücke neuLateinischer
Liebesdichtung. München: G. Müller. (Die Werkstatt der Liebe, vol. 5).
(8), 48 pp., lg.4to. (Copy: G. Legman.) Translations into German of medieval
Latin erotic poetry (in preparation for Vorberg's great dictionary of Latin
erotic speech, Glossarium Eroticum, Stuttgart, 1930, replacing that
forming Kryptádia, vol. 12.) "On the Female Genitals," p. 13 here, by
Calcagninus, dating from 1553, to compare with Pierre de Ronsard's "Sonnet
féminin, " in his Folastries et Gaillardises of close date, imitated
by H. Phelps PUTNAM, q.v.; see also John UPDIKE; KÜHLEWEIN; MARTIAL;
Poemata; Priapeia; Callipygia; Carmina; Eroto-pœgnion; and Medulla
facetiorum.
VUK, Dr. 1884. (One of the editors [G. Paris, Gaidoz, or E. Rolland?]
states concerning the article on Serbian erotic "Poskochnica," in
Kryptádia, 2:284-288, that he then possessed: "un cahier contenant une
centaine, au moins, de strophes du Kolo et d'autres [Poskochnica]
du même genre; cahier provenant, soit dit en passant, des collections
inédites de Vuk [author of the Serbian Dictionary]. N'ayant
pas ce manuscrit sous la main, etc." The later history of Vuk's
unpublished collection is unknown.)
WALDHEIM, Dr. von, et al. 1910. Schlesische Volklieder.
Anthropophytéia 7:369-374. Bawdy folksongs from Silesia.
WALLRICH, William. 1957. Air Force Airs. Songs and Ballads of the
United States Air Force. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce. xxii, 232 pp.,
12mo. Expurgated texts, in part taken from POSSELT, q.v. Includes many
nonfolk parodies. Despite the title, no music is given. Compare: GETZ;
HENDERSON; HOPKINS; and STARR.
WALSH, John. See: Songs of Roving and Raking.
WALTHER, Th. 1908. Die leichtgeschürtzte Muse: Galante und erotische
Lieder, Volkweisen und Spruchworte aus allen Zeiten. Leipzig. Hardly
lives up to the promise of its title, which is taken from a felicity of Sir
Walter Scott's, calling bawdy Scottish songs "high-kilted."
WANNAN, Bill. 1972. Robust, Ribald and Rude Verse in Australia.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press. 123 pp., 8vo. Unexpurgated, but mostly light
verse by named authors and not folksong. Compare: EDWARDS; MEREDITH; TATE;
also BOLD; LAYCOCK; Argus Tuft's Compendium, and Snatches & Lays,
for the full picture.
WARD-JACKSON, C. H. 1967. Airman's Song Book. Edinburgh: William
Blackwood. 200 songs sung by British airmen in World War II. Compare: GETZ;
HOPKINS; PAGE; STARR; and WALLRICH.
WARDROPER, John. 1969. Love and Drollery. (A Selection of Amatory
Merry and Satirical Verse of the 17th Century.) London: Routledge. xxv, 316
pp., 8vo. Outstanding collection of English drollery verse, mostly from MS
sources, with valuable comparative notes on printed versions. Compare:
CUTTS; FARMER; HOLLOWAY; and PINTO.
Warning! Guam Air Force Songs. 1945? Mimeographed. See: KELLOGG.
WATSON, James. 1706-11. A Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots
Poems. Edinburgh. 3 vols. in 1, 8vo. Reprinted (very limited edition),
Glasgow: Robert Ogle, 1869. Compare: HERD. RAMSAY; and further G. LEGMAN,
The Horn Book, p. 338; and full quotation from Watson's Collection in No
Laughing Matter (Rationale of the Dirty Joke) vol. 2:785-788.
WEBINGER, Alfred. See: KRAUSS and WEBINGER.
WEDDERBURN, John, and Robert. 1897. A Compendious Book of godly and
spiritual songs. Commonly known as The Gude and Godlie Ballatis.
Reprinted from the edition of 1567. Alex. Mitchell, ed. Edinburgh: William
Blackwood. (Scottish Text Society, Publications vol. 39.) With an important
120-page Introduction by Mitchell, discussing the "sacred contrefacts" of
bawdy folk songs by the Wedderburns, by way of preventing the Devil from
"having all the best tunes," as complained of by Martin Luther and John
Wesley. See further: G. LEGMAN, The Horn Book, pp. 139-140 and
231-234; also George R. KINLOCH.
WEHSE, R. 1979. Schwanklied und Flugblatt in Grossbritannien.
Frankfurt/Bern/Las Vegas [!] Compare: ASHTON; HINDLEY; and especially
SHEPARD.
________. 1980. The Erotic Metaphor in Humorous Narrative Songs. In
Festschrift, Linda DÉGH, ed. pp. 223-232. Bloomington: Indiana.
WELLS, F. L. 1951. Frau Wirtin and associates: A Note on alien
corn. American Imago (South Dennis, Mass.) vol. 8, pp. 93-97.
Parallels the German "Frau Wirtin" verses, quoting examples, with
English-language limericks. See: BARRICK; BLÜMML; KRAUSS; and Wirtshaus
an der Lahn. This, and HAND, q.v., only discussions of the German
four-liners in English.
WELSH, Charles, and William TILLINGHAST. 1905. Catalogue of English
and American Chapbooks and Broadside Ballads in Harvard College Library.
Cambridge, Mass. Reprinted 1968, with introduction by Leslie Shepard,
Detroit: Singing Tree Press. Compare: LAWS; HINDLEY; SHEPARD. Note that the
British Museum Library, and the British university libraries at Oxford
(Douce Collection) and Cambridge (Madden and Pepys Ballads) have enormous
collections of broadside ballads and other old ephemera, but these are not
catalogued separately except en masse, and presumably never will be.
See: BARING-GOULD; and SHEPARD.
Welsh Folk-Rhymes, etc. 1886. Kryptádia 3:147-163. Welsh
erotic texts with translations into English.
The Welshman's Lament. 1888. Kryptádia 4:282-287 and 397.
Welsh satirical poem on venereal disease, from early 17th century, with
English translation.
WEPMAN, Dennis; Ronald B. NEWMAN, and Murray BINDERMAN. 1974. Toasts: The
Black Urban Folk Poetry. Journal of American Folklore 87:208-224.
Compare following item.
________. 1976. The Life: The Lore and Folk Poetry of the Black
Hustler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. x, 205 pp.,
8vo. Excellent discussion and texts of Negro pimp and drug-addict bawdy
"toast" recitations, collected in prison; with a particularly valuable
annotated bibliography. Slashingly "pre-reviewed" by Wepman's principal
competitor in the field, Bruce Jackson, in Journal of American Folklore
(1975) 88:178-182, with rejoinder by Wepman, 88:182-187. Compare:
ABRAHAMS; DANCE; EDDINGTON; FIDDLE; JACKSON; and YANKAH.
"WESTENHAM, Franz, Graf von," pseud. See: TRELDEWEHR; and Das
Wirtshaus an der Lahn.
WESTERMEIER, Clifford P. 1976. The Cowboy and Sex. In The
Cowboy: Six-Shooters, Songs, and Sex. Charles W. Harris and Buck Rainey,
eds., pp. 85-105. Norman, Oklahoma. Excellent, no-nonsense article but damn
few songs and less sex, despite the titles. Compare: FIFE; THORP; and
especially LOGSDON-NEAL.
The Whippingham Papers. See: SWINBURNE.
Why Was He Born So Beautiful? See: Harry MORGAN.
WICKHAM, Littleton M. See: Lyra Ebriosa.
Wiegenlied aus der Umgegend von Luxemburg. 1899. Kryptádia
6:382-384. German erotic mock-lullaby.
Wiener Blut: Ein Bilderzyklus mit Liedern. 1970. Eingeleitet von
Quirin Mark [pseud.: Axel MATTHES]. München: Rogner & Bernhard. 18
pp. and 50 colored plates, sm.8vo. (PC. 1881) Apparently an illustrated
reprint of BLÜMML and GUGITZ'S Der Spittelberg und seine Lieder, q.
v.
WIER, Albert E. 1918. The Book of a Thousand Songs. New York.
Large collection of old favorites. Compare: CHAPPLE.
Wild Weasel Songbook. See: Greg ANDERS.
WILGUS, D. K. c. 1945-60. (Student Collection of Folksongs.)
MS archive, Western Kentucky State College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Now
repositoried at University of California, Los Angeles, Folklore and
Mythology Center. Compare: DORSON; GOLDSTONE; KINSEY-ISR; RÖHRICH; and
REUSS. Note also that there is now a further Folklore Archive at the
University of California, Berkeley.
WILKAT, J. 1967. Freche Lieder. München.
WILKINSON, Lupton. See: WYLKINSON; also RHODI.
WILLIAMS, Alfred. 1923. Folk Songs of the Upper Thames. London.
Reprinted 1971, Wakefield, Yorks.: S.R. Publishers. Expurgated texts, but
with discussion of the human problem in rejecting performers' material as
"obscene." Compare: BARING-GOULD; PURSLOW; REEVES; SHARP; also GOLDSTEIN;
and VAN GENNEP.
WILLIAMS, Charles Hanbury. See: Foundling Hospital for Wit.
WILLIAMS, Cratis D. 1937. Ballads and Songs. MS, Lexington,
Kentucky. 360 f. 4to, typewritten. Master's thesis, University of Kentucky.
Courageously unexpurgated field-collection of rural songs; in particular
Nos. 21, 23, 66, 127, and 181. Compare: HALPERT.
WILLIAMS, Oscar. 1957. The Silver Treasury of Light Verse, from
Geoffrey Chaucer to Ogden Nash. New York: New American Library. 408 pp.,
16mo. The first of the relatively unexpurgated popular verse anthologies in
English for over a century and a half. (Compare: The Bacchanalian
Magazine, and Cyprian Enchantress, 1793.) Numerous other pocketbooks of
"light verse" similar, American and British, issued since by Oxford
University Press, Penguin Books, and others. See: COHEN; and BOLD.
WILSON, Edmund. 1926. Shanty-boy Ballads and Blues. New Republic
47:227-229. Compare: Abbe NILES; COLCORD; DOERFLINGER; and SHAY.
WILSTACH, Frank J. 1924. Anecdota Erotica, or Stable Stories. MS,
New York. 44 f., 4to, type-written. (NYPL: 3*.) Jokes and verse; on
stationery of the New York Lambs' Club.
WINTERICH, John T. 1953. Mademoiselle from Armentieres. Mount
Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press. 101 preselected and expurgated
stanzas, still "too-hot-to-print" thirty-five years and another World War
later. Compare: BERRY; and CARY, giving the authentic texts.
Das Wirtshaus an der Lahn: Die ungedruckten erotischen Strophen
des Volksliedes. 1905. Anthropophytéia 2:113-116. Friedrich S. KRAUSS
and Karl REISKEL, eds. This is the first publicly published collection of
the bawdy four-liners concerning the "Frau Wirtin" landlady and her crew of
horny boarders, which hold the same position in German folklore as bawdy
limericks do in Britain and America. The editors note, p. 114, a relevant
illustration by H. Lossow, "Die Allotria," on a title page reproduced in
Eduard Fuchs's Erotische Element in der Karikatur (1904, Wien &
Berlin). Collections and discussion, see: BARRICK; BLÜMML; KRAUSS; MEYER;
WELLS; SCHIDROWITZ; TRELDEWEHR; VOEGELIN; also The Book of a Thousand
Laughs; and Volks-Erotik; plus further references in
HAYN-GOTENDORF, (by P. ENGLISCH) 9:632-633; and Bilder-Lexikon der Erotik
2:912-913 and 2:572, noting a collection entitled Bonifazius
Kiesewetters tolldreiste Streiche. (Herr Kiesewetter is Frau Wirtin's
star-boarder.)
Wit and Drollery. Joviall poems. 1656. London. Same 1661.
Corrected and much amended, with additions by Sir J. M[ENNIS], Ja. S[MITH],
Sir W.D., J.D., and the most refined Wits of the Age. London: N. Brooks.
Same 1682. With New Additions. London: Blagrave. (Copy: Harvard University
Library) See: Joseph STOKES, Wit and Drollery, 1656. (Yale
dissertation, 1935). One of the most interesting of the drollery
collections, for folksong inclusions. Compare: New Academy of
Complements; Choyce Drollery; Sportive Wit; Wit's Recreations; FARMER;
and especially WARDROPER.
Wit and Mirth. See: Pills to Purge Melancholy.
Wit's Recreations refined. Augmented with Ingenious Conceites for the
wittie, and Merrie Medicines for the Melancholie. 1640. London. (5
editions by 1667.) Reprinted with Musarum Deliciœ [1873-74, London:
Pearson?] in vol. 2, with other similar texts. Drollery and obscœna
collection of particular interest for its typographical tricks and oddities.
Compare: PEIGNOT; SANTA-CRUZ; and JIMÉNEZ.
WITHERS, Carl. 1948. A Rocket in My Pocket: American Children's
Rhymes. New York.
WOLFENSTEIN, Martha. 1954. Children's Humor: A Psychological Analysis.
Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press/Ned Polsky. Reprinted 1978 Indiana University
Press. Outstanding study. Compare (including field-collections of
materials): BORNEMAN; GAIGNEBET; LOWENSTEIN; McCOSH; and TURNER.
Women's Songbook. c. 1970. [Edited by Judy BUSCH?] Oral Herstory
Library, 2325 Oak Street, Berkeley, Calif. Women's Liberation proposed
folksongs: "Heaven Help the Working Girl," "We Don't Need the Men," "Male
Supremacy," and 20 others. Compare the 1930s and '40s unionizing folksong
parodies, mocked in Unexpurgated, and ELLINGTON and VAN RONK'S The
Bosses' Songbook; also WEDDERBURN for the religious form.
WOOD, Clement. 1937. Lays for the Laity. [Bozenkill, N.Y.]
Privately Printed and Not for Sale. 32 pp., 4to. Bawdy art poems with
obvious word-expurgations, intended as propaganda or softening-up of guests
for orgies.
The World's Dirtiest Jokes. See: NEWBERN and RODEBAUGH.
The "Wrecks": An Anthology of Ribald Verse, c. 1933. Collected at
Reno. Privately Printed for Subscribers Only. [Reno, Nevada]. (3), 192 pp.,
sm.4to, bound in black plush. (Copies: University of Nevada, Reno; G.
Legman.) Bawdy songs and poems divided into mild and raw sections, for
unexplained purposes. Issued by the Reno "Wrecks," a sporting club who from
their name seem to be resting up after taking the cure: a main subject of
the poems is impotence. Volume is dated by reference, p. 117, to the
Depression, and a mocking closing reference to a "Hoover button," referring
to the presidential election of 1932. Largely derived from Immortalia,
and may have been edited for the club by Thomas R. SMITH, using his
rejectamenta from that work in addition to the club's own repertory. Two
other editions (not seen) are reported: one entitled Reno Wrecks, [c.
1940?] which may be the present edition or a reprint; the other
apparently an earlier, shorter collection, entitled in "pig Latin," The
X-Ray.
[WRIGHT, Nancy]. 1951. Caution! Do Not Attempt to sing these ditties
without at least three kegs of beer on hand. [East Lansing, Mich.] 17 or
more leaves, 4to, typewritten. (Copies of these sheets now preserved in
Indiana University Folklore Archive, but all separately filed by song
titles.) Forms Part 2 of a 3-part mimeographed (?) volume of "beer bust"
bawdy songs entrusted to Wright by male students at Michigan State College,
and in turn copied by her and handed in to Richard Dorson's student folksong
collection.
WYLIE, Philip. See: The Bedroom Companion.
WYLKINSON, Lupton Wilkinson or; [pseuds.: "J. Sumner RADCLYFFE";
and "Seeley WILCOX."] c. 1935. Les Oraisons et Chansons de
Marianne de Bon Cœur (and) La Vierge Montagne. MSS, New York,
with erotic illustrations signed "José del CASTILLIO." (Copy: Dr. Clifford
Scheiner, Brooklyn, N. Y.) Unpublished erotic parodies and verse in
English, despite titles in French, by the author of An Oxford Thesis
on Love [New York: P. Shostac, 1935] mimeo; and a translation of "Ibykos
de RHODI," The Imitation of Sappho ("Bruxelles: Privately Printed,"
New York: Gotham Book Mart, c. 1930; Copy: G. Legman), q.v.
X-RAY, The. c. 1930. (Pig-Latin: The "Wrecks," or Reno
Wrecks.) Variant edition [Reno, Nevada], giving the original bawdy song
and poem repertory of the Wrecks' western sporting club; later enlarged with
materials from Immortalia, as The "Wrecks," q.v. The X-Ray
edition not seen.
YALE Tales. 1952. [Pittsfield, Mass.] 4 f. folio, mimeographed.
[Edited by George ZUCKERMAN.] Collection of 80 limericks, followed by ballad
"The Good Ship Venus."
YANKAH, Kwesi. 1984. From Loose Abuse to Poetic Couplets: The Case of the
Fante Tone Riddle. Maledicta 7:167—177. Violently erotic and
scatological contests in tone-rhymed abuse among the Fante (Akan) of Ghana.
Compare the similar American Negro "dozens" rhymed recitations, at:
ABRAHAMS; JACKSON; and WEPMAN.
[YATES, John]. 1968. Rugby Jokes. London: Sphere Books Ltd. 175
pp., 16mo. Bawdy jokes alternating with batches of limericks, and final
section of obscœna and songs, pp. 153—173, "Up Spake a Brave Old Pauper, and
other unpublished feelthy poems." See also MORGAN.
[________]. 1970. Son of Rugby Jokes. London: Sphere Books Ltd.
172 pp., 16mo. 2d volume of the series. Cante-fable, p. 121, "Hole
Full of Soap" (a spoonerism).
[________]. 1970. What Rugby Jokes Did Next. London: Sphere Books
Ltd. 139 pp., 16mo. 3d and last volume. Jokes and obscœna, passim;
songs and poems, pp. 94-103.
The Yellow Stream. c. 1932. I. P. STANDING [pseud.; U.S.
c. 1932.]. Cover title, (38) pp., 12mo, offset from typewriting. (Copy:
G. Legman.) Made-up book, for private mail sales in response to classified
magazine advertisements ("Price Five Dollars"), composed of song texts
copied from Immortalia. Also reported as: The Yellow River,
"Privately Printed" [c. 1940].
Yumor Russkago naroda v skazkach. See: Mejdu Druziami,
Second Series.
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