This is a combined annotated bibliography of erotic folklore in the English language. This will include books and manuscripts of drinking songs, bawdy songs, military songs, college songs, drinking toasts, recitations, chants and graffiti. It builds on the work of LEGMAN (1990 & 1992), with additional items found in GETZ, LOGSDON, CRAY (1992 & 1998) and FISH (1999). This bibliography also lists items in my personal collection and gives links to digital copies when possible. Items listed in RED are in my collection.
Bibliography
(Last revised 7 Apr 2006)8th Tactical Fighter Wing Stag Bar. Kunsan Air Base, Korea. Not seen. Listed in Bill GETZ checklist of air force squadron songbooks. Compare: Kun Songs.
12 TAC FTR WG Song Book ca.1966. (Notes)
15th Fighter Interceptor Squadron Songsheet, (no other identification). Not seen. Listed in Bill GETZ checklist of air force squadron songbooks.
18th Fighter Bomber Wing Songbook. Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, 1957.
Not seen. Listed in Bill GETZ checklist of air force squadron songbooks. According to Getz this was originally the songbook of the 18th Pursuit Group of pre-WW II days.
18th TFS [Tactical Fighter Squadron] Blue Fox Songbook. ca 1985.
Many of the songs & images in this songbook are reproduced in the 335th FS Songbook (Notes)
35 TAC FTR WG Song Book w/Dirty Ditties supplement ca 1969.
53 NATO Tigers Combat Songbook. 1996. (Notes)
37th BS B-1B Sqdn Song Book. 01 Jun 2002. MS-Word document.
(Copies: Rainer Otter, John Patrick, Lydia Fish, Ed Cray.) Probably compiled by Jeffrey H. and Steven B. Jeffrey H. was a B-1B pilot and Steven B. was a Senior Airman. Both served at Dyess AFB, Texas. Dyess AFB's 28th BS was the Air Force's only formal training unit for the B-1 bomber. 81 songs mostly bawdy.
43rd TFS [Tactical Fighter Squadron] Song Book: Bawdy Ballads, Tasteless Toasts, Meaningless Miscellaneous. ca 1985. Unpaginated. (91pp.) Spiral bound card stock covers. 12mo. (Notes)
(Copies: Paul "Flying Booger" Woodford; Photocopy: John Patrick) In part compiled by Paul Woodford. Bawdy.
44th TFS Hymnal: Official, Unexpurgated, Unabridged, Unbelievable 1970 Edition. 1970.
(Copies: Lydia Fish; John Patrick.) 143 songs. Most bawdy. (Notes)
92nd Tactical Fighter Squadron Song Book. Not seen. Listed in Bill GETZ checklist of air force squadron songbooks.
95th Tactical Fighter Interceptor Training Squadron Song Book. Not seen. Listed in Bill GETZ checklist of air force squadron songbooks.
101st Airborne Division Songbook. 1968-69.
This songbook was used in the Officers' Mess of the 101st Airborne Division in Phu Bai, 1968-1969. It includes 24 songs with Vietnam War content, many of them contributed by General Bowen. This songbook is divided into two parts: Frequently Sung Songs and Other Songs. The songbook is lacking pgs 40,41,42,43,44,199 and 211. It adds extra pages 120a, 120b, 120. This songbook needs to collated with the index to find what songs are missing (or added!). (Notes)
121st Aviation Company (Airmobile Light) "Tiger Tunes". 1970-71. (Notes)
136 FIS Song Book. 1988. (Notes)
161 Songbook. 1960s. (Notes)
230 Tiger SQN Gulf Campaign 1990-1991 Song Book.
(Copies: Rainer Otter, Lydia Fish, John Patrick). (Notes)
322 Flying Monsters Songbook. 2000. (Notes)
335th FS [Fighter Squadron] Songbook. ca 1991. Spiral bound. 50pp. 4to.
(Copies: Lydia Fish, John Patrick). Many of the songs and images in this songbook are shared with the earlier 18th TFS Blue Fox Song Book. See song list here.
339th Fighter Interceptor Squadron Songbook, Johnson Air Base, Japan. Not seen. Listed in Bill GETZ checklist of air force squadron songbooks.
354th Tactical Fighter Sqdn Training Manual (AFM 69-16, NON FLYING 60-16). (Notes)
405th Green Dragon Squadron Songsheet, 38th Bomb Group (B-25). Not seen. Listed in Bill GETZ checklist of air force squadron songbooks.
437th Fighter Interceptor Squadron Songbook (no other identification). Not seen. Listed in Bill GETZ checklist of air force squadron songbooks.
445th Fighter Interceptor Squadron Songbook (no other identification) 1954, Not seen. Listed in Bill GETZ checklist of air force squadron songbooks.
494th Phantom Song Book. ca 1977. 27p. 4to.
(Copies: Bob Cohen, Nail 238; John Patrick) Military songs, bawdy songs and standard drinking songs. Sung limericks titled "Fighter Pilots Always Eat Pussy."
497th TFS Night Owl's Song Book. (Notes)
523rd Tactical Fighter Squadron Fighter Pilot's Songbook, 2nd Edition (no other identification) Not seen. Listed in Bill GETZ checklist of air force squadron songbooks.
7440th Combat Song Book. 17 Jan 1991. [Incirlik, Turkey]. 20p. 4to.
(Copies: Lydia FISH; John Patrick). Twenty songs mostly bawdy. See songbook notes.
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.
Abel, Ernest L., and Barbara E. Buckley. The Handwriting on the Wall: Toward a Sociology and Psychology of Graffiti. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Best study of the subject, but with few examples. Compare: Read.
ABRAHAMS, Roger D. 1959. Abrahams MS. Philadelphia. Transcript of tape-recorded songs and recitations of Negro children. Unpublished.
__________. 1962. 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?
(Copies: Kinsey-ISR. John Patrick). Ph.D. dissertation with numerous field-collected texts not in printed edition below. Compare following items. Compare: Jackson; and Wepman.
Abraham's Student Collections. 1963. (Notes)
(Copies: Kinsey-ISR; IU Folklore Archives (incomplete); Photocopies: JL; John Patrick). An important collection of bawdy fraternity songs, military folklore collected at the University of Texas. Most of these were deposited at Kinsey-ISR, Bloomington, Indiana by Richard Reuss. Ruess had access to some personal material (Abrahams-personal) not deposited in the archives. See: ALLRED; KELLOGG; COOPER; NICHOLS.
Judy Allred, "College Fraternity Songs," Texas University, ca. 1963.
Ina Cooper and Pat Aston, "Lore of High School Bands and the Longhorn Band," University of Texas, January 13, 1963.
James Kellogg, collection of Air Force songs from Guam (1956-59), University of Texas, ca. 1963. (The Institute For Sex Research manuscript is listed under the above author; I possess another copy of the same songs in rearranged form, with the compiler listed as one Capt. DeMarrs.)
__________. 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.
Addison, James. "Bawdry, Cancer or Cure?" in: Chapbook. (Aberdeen Folklife Soc., 1967) vol. IV, no. 3.
Adventures of a Young Stenographer. See: Diary of a French Stenographer.
Air Force Songs And Verses, songbook of the Royal Air Force (London: Aeronautics, Ltd., 1927).
Air Forces Airs. 1943. x, 1-134, [4]. 4to and 32mo.
With music. Issued in small breast-pocket size and large quarto for piano. Nothing bawdy here. (Notes)
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; Kinsey-ISR; G. Legman.) Compare: Reuss.
Aloha Jigpoha. 1945. Compiled by Robert D. THORNTON, et al. Honolulu, T.H. 61 f., 4to, mimeographed.
(Copies: Harvard University Library XLA-430F; Library of Congress, Folksong Archive; Photocopy: John Patrick, Kinsey-ISR). Army and Air Force songs, collected at Boulder, Colorado, and in Hawaii, with final section of bawdy songs. Compare: ANDERS; GETZ; and STARR.
The Amanda Group of Bagford Poems. (MS. 1668.) Edited by J. W. Ebsworth. Hartford: Ballad Society (no. 20), 1880.
Amarillo Field Airs, Amarillo Army Air Field, Texas, undated, probably 1942-44 period, Brigadier General Arthur Easterbrook, Commander.
Not seen. Listed in Bill GETZ checklist of air force songbooks. This probably a official Air Field reissue of popular songs.
Amatory Poetry or the Banquet of Bacchus and Venus (London: n.p., 1811). Listed in Rose.
Amores Britannici (London, 1703). Listed in Rose.
Amphibious Anthology of Rare Hymns (3rd Ed.). ca 1972. (Notes)
ANDERS, Greg ("Vito"). c. 1972. 17th Wild Weasel Songbook. U.S. Air Force, Thailand. 4f. plus 115 songs, 4to, mimeographed.
(Copies: Jonathan Lighter, Knoxville, Tenn.; G. Legman; Photocopy: John Patrick.) One of the few military songbooks to mention its compiler. Compare: STARR.
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.
__________. Anecdota Americana: Five Hundred Stories. Expurgated and revised by Samuel Roth. New York: "William Faro" (Samuel Roth), 1933. Repr., New York: Nesor (Rosen and Wartels), 1934; and further revised by Roth as: The New Anecdota Americana, New York: Grayson, 1944.
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. (Australia, ca. 1960?) 20 p. mimeographed songbook.
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.
__________. Apollo's Banquet. 1669. 6th edition, 1690. London. Same, 6th edition, 1690.
Drollery collection, with tunes, edited by Henry PLAYFORD. Compare An Antidote against Melancholy; and Pills to Purge Melancholy.
Apples of Eden: A Private Collection of American Folk-Lore: Gathered from cowboys, college boys, and latino americanos by a liberal who does not believe that these choice morsels should be thrown out of American Literature because of their vigorous and unconventional language. After all, a manure pile by any other name would smell no better! And even a manure pile has its values. 77 pages. 4to. (Berkley, California? ca. 1945.) Typescript.
(Photocopies: Logsdon; John Patrick). Mostly bawdy songs. An important early record of bawdy songs, doggerel verse a third of which are limericks.
Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
This archive dates back to July 1, 1928, when the Library of Congress established the Archive of American Folk-Song as a unit within its Music Division. In 1976, Congress established the American Folklife Center, and the Archive became a division of the Center; the name has been changed to the Archive of Folk Culture. The citation code for field-collected songs had been LC-AFS (Archive of Folk Song); in order to avoid confusion AFS was retained. The Archive houses extensive subject files that contain information about hundreds of folk songs and related topics, including a "Bawdy Songs" folder. See: Gordon. Compare: Indiana University Folklore Archive.
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.
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.
Arkansas, University of. University Folklore Collection, Special Collections, University of Arkansas Library, Fayetteville.
Assembled 1949-65, by Mary Celestia Parler Randolph and others. Over 3,500 tape-recorded songs and other genres; also typed transcriptions in 65 document cases and 10 bound volumes.
Army Song Book, War Department, 1918.
Army Song Book. Washington, D.C., 1941. The Adjutant General's Office.
Government issue. Nothing bawdy. (Notes)
ASH, Robert. See: Union Jack.
Ashboresher, Louis (compiler), Popular Parodies For Group Singing, Elderidge Entertainment House, Franklin, Ohio and Denver, Colorado, 1925.
Listed in REUSS.
ASHTON, John. A Century of Ballads. London: Elliott Stock, 1887.
__________. 1888. Modern Street Ballads. London. Compare: SHEPARD.
Aubrey, John. Brief Lives. (MS. 1680), ed. John Collier, 1944?
__________. Miscellanies. 1696. First folklore collection in English.
__________. Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaïsme (MS. 1687), ed. J. Britten, 1881.
[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.
__________. Supplement: The Amanda Group of Bagford Ballads. (Hertford, 1880?) "Reserved" supplement of the erotic ballads.
BaBAD, Harry. See: Songs of Roving and Raking; and WALSH.
Babad, Harry, ed. Roll Me Over. New York: Oak Publications, 1972.
Reprint of: Walsh, Songs of Roving and Raking, 1961. With extra songs supplied by Oscar Brand.
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). Listed by Legman, JAF (1990), p. 425.
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, Ed Cray) 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.
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. Compare: LEGMAN, "Bawdy Monologues" (1976), on the same song or recitation, usually entitled "Our Lil," and attributed to Eugene FIELD.
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; and the preceding item above: BAKER, Ronald.
The Bang-Up Songster. Speaight, pg.13.
BARING-GOULD, Sabine. 1905. Songs of the West: Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall. Revised and edited by Cecil Sharp. London: Methuen .
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.
Barke, James. "Pornography and Bawdry in Literature and Society." Preface to Robert Burns, ed. The Merry Muses of Caledonia (Edinburgh: Auk Soc., 1959). Repr. New York.
"BARPH, Toshka" [pseud.] 1969. Cookie-Tossers and Stomach-Turners. "Filthadelphia." MS.
A 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. 1929. The Elizabethan Jig, and related song drama. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reprinted 1965, New York: Dover Publications.
__________. 1921. "English Songs of the Night Visit" in PMLA (Publications, Modern Language Association) 36:565-614.
BAT Songs (44TFS). ca 1985. (Notes)
(Copies: Paul "Flying Booger" Woodford; John Patrick) A bawdy squadron songbook.
The Bawd's Book: Being a Collection of Crass and Curious Limericks and Linoleum Cuts. 1965. San Marino, Calif. [R. A. Billington?].
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." (Copies: Arthur Deex, John Patrick)
Bawdy Ballads of the 117th Hims. 1960s. (Notes)
Beck, Earl C. "The Farmer's Curst Wife (Child 278) in Michigan," in: Southern Folklore Quarterly (Sept. 1940) 4: 157-58. Compare: Stekert.
__________. Lore of the Lumber Camps. University of Michigan Press, 1948.
BECK, Horace Palmer. 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. Unexpurgated. 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, JM formerly John Patrick.) Cited by C. J. Scheiner, Compendium (1989) no. 94. 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."
Beeliners Sing, Song Book of the 21st Troop Carrier Squadron.. Not seen. Listed in Bill GETZ checklist of air force squadron songbooks.
(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.
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.
(Copy: C. W. Getz; John Patrick). According to GETZ this was compiled at the Worldwide Rocketry Meet, Vincent Air Force Base, Arizona. The PATRICK copy is subtitled 318 FIS and may be a later reprint of the songbook specifically produced for the 318 Fighter-Intercept Squadron. (Notes)
Bennett, Harold. Bawdy Ballads and Dirty Ditties of the Wartime RAF. 2000. (Notes)
Some of the song texts in this volume are copied from Bawdy Ballads by Count Varicon.
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.
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.
Best, Dick and Beth, IOCA Song Book, no press indicated, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1948.
__________, The New Song Fest, Crown Publishing Co., New York, 1955.
Mild texts of drinking songs (from a non-drinking group).
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.
(Copy: G. Legman.) Has line drawings but omitting the photo-plates. Compare: The Book of a Thousand Laughs; and Cleopatra's Scrapbook.
Bilitis. c. 1950. [Geneva: Sack?] Deluxe erotic miscellany; includes verse.
The Black Joke: A Bawdy Song Book (H. Smith [W. Dugdale] , 37 Holywell St., n.d.)
Ashbee I says "two series if not more." BL Shelfmark C.116.a.40
BLAIR, Walter. 1937. Native American Humor, 1800-1900. New York. Reprinted 1960 San Francisco: Chandler Pub. Co.
Contains valuable bibliographies of 19th-century humor.
Blake, Roger. See: Trimble.
Blankety Blank Verse. 1910. Boston: Carol Press. 18 pp., 32do.
Doggerel verse illustrating typographical expurgation of profanity.
[Bloom, Stan], comp. & ed. The Spud Hymnal (Him, Him, Fuck Him): The Official 131st Song Book 1971.
__________, comp. & ed. The Spud Hymnal (Him, Him, Fuck Him) (2nd ed). 1992. (Notes)
__________, comp. & ed. The Spud Hymanl (Him, Him, Fuck Him). 2004.
BLOM, Xenia. See: Ohio State University Sailing Club.
The Blowen's Cabinet of Choice Songs (W. West, 57 Wych St., Strand, n.d. [ca. 1830]). Listed in Rose.
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: MÜLLER; SCHNABEL; and SCHWAAB.
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.")
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decamerone. MS., 1353. Many translations.
The Bog-House Miscellany. See: The Merry-Thought.
BOLD, Alan. 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. Compare: lmmortalia, T. R. Smith; and Whitworth.
__________. 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. Compare Cole, Laycock, and Poetica Erotica.
"Bonmal, Don," pseud. See The Rhyme of All Flesh, by "Eric E. StAye Scott" (Davis?).
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. (PDF). 1928. By "O. U. Schweinickle" [pseud. Wheeling, W. Va.]. (Kinsey-ISR; JM formerly owned by John Patrick and G. Legman.)
Obscœna and verse, some in Pennsylvania-Dutch, including "Frau Wirtin" stanzas. Compare: Cleopatra's Scrapbook; Select Reading; The Stag Party; 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.
Botkin, Benjamin A. The American Play-Party Song. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Studies, 1937. Compare: Wolford.
__________. A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People. New York: Crown, 1944.
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.
Bourke, John G. Scatalogic (sic) Rites of All Nations. Washington, 1891. Reprint, New York: "American Anthropological Soc." (Panurge Press), 1934. Foreword by Sigmund Freud. Box, Pelham. See: Pelham-Box MS.
[Bowen, Thomas, collector.] miscellaneous songs. (Notes)
Bowen, Thomas and Lydia Fish, The Longest Year: A Collection of Songs by Advisors and Civilians in the Vietnam War. 1990. (Notes)
BRADLEY, S. A. J., ed. 1968. Sixty Ribald Songs from "Pills to Purge Melancholy." New York: Fredrick A. Praeger. See: Pills.
Bramlett, Jim. The Original Strawberry Roan. (U.S.) Published by the Author, 1987.
BRAND, Oscar. 1953. "Old Folk Songs at Home," in Saturday Review (New York, 12 December 1953):43.
Further remarks and citations on commercial songwriters' clean-ups of risqué songs.
__________. 1956. "In Defense of Bawdy Ballads," in Modern Man January 1957: 8-11, and 51-52, (Skokie, Illinois, 1956)
A self-portrait and some expurgated texts. Revised in Brand's The Ballad Mongers.
__________. 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. Texts all rewritten. LPs listed below. (See: DISCOGRAPHY.) 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.
__________. The Ballad Mongers: Rise of the Modern Folksong. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1962.
Contains brief notes about World War II and Korean War Songs in a chapter entitled "Singing Servicemen."
__________. Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads. 1954-1962. LP series:
The best-selling series of ten expurgated LPs is the
__________. Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads. ca. 1954. Audio Fidelity AFLP 1906.
__________. Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads, II. ca. 1955. Audio Fidelity AFLP 1806.
__________. Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads, III. ca. 1955. Audio Fidelity AFLP 1824.
__________. Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads, IV. ca. 1956. 1847
__________. Bawdy Sea Chanties, Audio Fidelity AFLP 1884.
__________. Bawdy Songs Goes To College, Audio Fidelity AFLP 1952.
Important recording. Includes the first commercial examples of songs "Four Letter Words" and "Portions of a Woman."
__________. Bawdy Western Songs, Audio Fidelity AFLP 5920.
__________. Sing-along Bawdy Songs, Audio Fidelity AFLP 1971.
__________. Bawdy Hootenanny. ca. 1962. Audio Fidelity AFSD 6121. LP
__________. Folk Songs for Fun. New York: Hollis Music, 1961.
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. American Non-Singing Games. Norman, Okla., 1953.
__________. 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, ed. c. 1956. Crud and Corruption. Boston. Mimeographed.
College songbook, includes anti-godlin items but not bawdy despite the brave title. Compare: Shitty Songs of Sigma Chi
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.
The Bronco Book: Collector's Edition (19 TASS, Osan AB, Korea) [nd (ca 1980), np] [i-v], 2-71. 4to.
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.
__________, and Eric Partridge. 1965. The Long Trail, London: A. Deutsch; and Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries. A retitled reprint of Songs and Slang 3rd edition. See further: A Martial Medley, 1931.
Texts of what the British soldier allegedly sang and said in 1914-1918. Contains 58 songs with notes and a glossary of military slang. Bowdlerized, with no music and no index.
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.
Brunvand, Jan H. The Study of American Folklore. New York: Norton, 1968. See also: Metafolkloristica, 1989.
Buchan, Peter. (Manuscripts of Peter Buchan). British Museum, Dept. of Manuscripts, 1828?
[__________.] Secret Songs of Silence. By "Sir Oliver Orpheus" (pseud.) MS. Aberdeen, 1832.
(Harvard University Library, 25241:9*) Announced for forthcoming publication. Erotic supplement to Buchan's Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1828. 2 vols. (Reprint, 1875.) For details see his biography by William Walker, which also lists full contents of the MS.
Buckley, Bruce. 'Frankie and Her Man' : A Study of the Interrelationships of Popular and Folk Traditions. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1962. On "Frankie and Johnny."
Buchan Bawdry. 1960. See: Kenneth GOLDSTEIN.
The Buck's Bottle Companion: Being a complete collection of humorous, bottle, and drinking songs. 1775. London: (Copy: Folger Library, Washington, D.C.). Compare: The Gentleman's Bottle Companion.
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 was intended to be repositoried in the Kinsey-ISR Library as of 1990) Listed in Rose and Legman (1990).
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. Listed in Rose and Legman (1990)
The Buck's Delight. (Printed for T. Knowles, St. Paul's 11630.a.40 Church Yard, London, n.d.). Rose 1780(?) BL Shelfmark 11630.a.40. Is this different than the above?
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," in 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.
__________. "'If You're Nervous in the Service. . .': Training Songs of Female Soldiers in the '40s," 127-37 in Holsinger, M. Paul (ed.) Schofield, Mary Anne (ed.) Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture. Bowling Green OH: Popular Culture Press, 1992.
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.
CAMERON, Paul. See under: Paul F. GILBERT.
Camp Fire Songs and Verse. Collected by a well known Cavalry Regiment. c. 1939-40. 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.
Captain Morris's Songster (H. Smith [W. Dugdale], 37 Holywell St., n.d. Listed in Rose.
CARPENTER, James M. Manuscripts.
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, Henry N.] The Slang of Venery and Its Analogues. (Chicago: H. N. Cary) 1916. 3 vols., mimeographed.
(Copies: Kinsey-ISR Library; NYPL:3*; British Museum, Private Case.) Note: Largely culled from Farmer and Henley, q.v., but the Kinsey-ISR copy also has further MS. materials.
[_________], compiler. Treasury of Erotic and Facetious Memorabilia. 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.)
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).
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.
Cazden, Norman, ed. The Abelard Folksong Book. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1958.
Largely the repertory of one folksinger. Compare: Logsdon.
CHAMBERS, Robert. 1826. The Popular Rhymes of Scotland. Edinburgh; re-edited, 1870.
Chapman, Robert L. American Slang. New York: Harper, 1987. Compare: Gillette; Wentworth and Flexner; and Wilson, R. First and unabridged edition of this outstanding work, New Dictionary of American Slang, 1985.
CHAPPELL, Louis W. 1939. Folk-Songs of Roanoke and the Albemarle. Morgantown, W. Va.: The Ballad Press (Published by the Author). 203 pp., 8vo.
The first publicly published field collection in English since HERD, in 1776, with the courage to include a few mildly erotic songs (Nos. 60 and 87) without expurgation. But compare: FAUSET (1931); 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 omits most of the merely "traditional" songs! Compare: SIMPSON.
__________, and J. Woodfall Ebsworth, eds. The Roxburghe Ballads. Hertford: Printed for the Ballad Society, 1879-99. 9 vols. Repr., New York, 1968?
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 (1769?). 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.
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.
Has a section on the "Prudes on the Prowl" affair of 1894. See: SPEAIGHT; and The Cuckold's Nest.
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.)
The Choice Spirits Museum. (London: E. Sumpter, 1756). Listed in Rose.
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 Droller, 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.
The Cider Cellar Songster. (H. Smith [W. Dugdale], 37 Holywell St., n.d. Not seen. Listed in Rose.
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.
Cleveland, Les. The Songs We Sang. 1959. 12mo. 1959. The Songs We Sang by Les Cleveland (Notes)
Gives many of the clean songs sung by the New Zealand Army during WWII and gives a couple dash expurgated songs. Has a list of 35 "unprintable" songs sung during WWII.
__________. The Songs We Sang. 1959. LP recording..
This 10" LP is the companion to the book of the same name.
__________. More of the Songs We Sang. 1960?. LP recording.
__________. 1984. "When They Send the Last Yank Home: Wartime Images of Popular Culture," Journal of Popular Culture, 18 (1984): 31-36.
Reproduces several anti-American parodies circulating among NZ troops in World War II. [LC]
__________. "Soldiers' Songs: The Folklore of the Powerless," New York Folklore, 11 (1985): 79-97.
Discusses the functions of military folksong and especially its significance as protest. (Notes) [LC]
1984. "Soldiers' Songs: The Folklore of the Powerless" by Les Cleveland
__________. "Military Folklore and the Underwood Collection," New York Folklore, 13, nos. 3-4 (1987): 87-103.
Description of seminal collection of World War II folklore, now housed in the archives of the Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project; excellent bibliography.
__________. "Military Folklore: Additional References," New York Folklore, 14, nos. 1-2 (Winter-Spring, 1988): 143-146.
__________. 1994. Dark Laughter: War in Song and Popular Culture. Westport CT: Praeger Publishers, 1994.
__________. March 17, 2005. Recording.
This is a recording of Les Cleveland answering a few questions and singing some of the unprintable songs of WWII listed in the back of his 1959 book The Songs We Sang.
Clerval, Henry. "Clap Books," in: Maledicta (1988) 9: 139-41.
The Coal Hole Companion. ([London]"H. Smith [Wm. Dugdale], n.d. [1830-1840],
According to Cray (1989), this includes the new Coal Holes songster, The Coal-Hole companion, The coal Hole companion -- third collection, The coal Hole companion -- Fourth collection. Listed in Rose.
Cobbes Prophecies, his Signes and Tokens. London: Robert Wilson, 1614. facsimile repr. as Antient (sic) Drolleries, No. 1. London: Printed for Private Circulation (Charles Praetorius), 1890.
The Cockatoo's Note Book. (London: William West, date?) Listed in Rose.
The Cockchafer. See: The Cuckold's Nest; and Rambler's Flash Songster.
Coffin, Tristram P. The British Traditional Ballad in North America. Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, 1950.
__________. Same, revised and enlarged by Roger deV. Renwick. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. Additional listings to Child.
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.
Cohen, Norman. Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.
__________. "Tin Pan Alley's Contribution to Folk Music," in Western Folklore (1970) 29: 9-20.
__________, editor: Vance Randolph, Ozark Folksongs. Abridged edition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.
Dr. Cohen's additions to the notes and discographies are of importance, making this the most useful edition.
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.
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 made on the campus of the University of Arkansas. See McRELL
COLLIER, John Payne. See: Roxburghe Ballads, Hindley, ed. London, 1847. See also: Roxburghe.
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, John Patrick.)
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.
__________. Folk-Songs from the Kentucky Highlands. New York, 1939.
__________. 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.
The Comic Songster and Gentleman's Private Cabinet Comic Songster. ( London; Wm. West, n.d.). Listed in Rose, Speaight
Conklin-Jones MS. See: Lewis JONES; and Thompson, H.
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.
Cosmos Command Christmas Carols. (Notes).
Cornog, Martha, ed., The Libraries, Erotica, and Pornography : A Symposium. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1990. Compare: Private Case.
The Court of Venus: A Collection of Songs of Love (n.p., n.d., ca. 1560). Listed in Rose. (Huntington PR 1205 C6 1955?)
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, Gordon. "Songs and Ballads of the Wet Canteen: Recollections of a British Soldier in India," Lore and Language, 3, no. 7 (1982): 53-67.
Cox, John Harrington. Folk-Songs Mainly from West Virginia. National Service Bureau of the Federal Theatre Project, W.P.A. New York, 1939. Repr. as: Traditional Ballads and Folk-Songs Mainly from West Virginia. Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, 1964.
__________. Folk-Songs of the South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925. Reprs., Hatboro, Pa.: Folklore Associates, 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.] 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 Erotic Muse. Compare: SILVERMAN.
__________. 1959. Songs from the Ash Grove. Los Angeles, Calif: Ash Grove. 47 pp., 8vo. Ventures a few mildly bawdy texts.
__________. 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.
__________. The Erotic Muse. Second edition.
__________. Songs from the Ash Grove. Los Angeles, Calif.: Ash Grove, 1959. 47 pp. 8vo. See also: Super Stag Treasury.
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.") See: "Victor Dodson."
Creighton, Helen. Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia. Toronto: Dent, 1932. Expurgated.
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 and Story of a Dildoe, 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.
[_________]. Scented Garden, or Bagh-i-Muattar., 1911. Reprint, 1981. See: Motta. See also: MOTTA.
[_________]. 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 Crusader Hymnal. ca 1967. (Notes)
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. This is a reissue of the 1933 book An Immoral Anthology.
The Curiosities of Street Literature. See: Charles HINDLEY.
The Curious Songster and Funny Cabinet. (West, n.d.). Listed in Rose.
"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; without supplement: John Patrick.) Compare: Jest on Sex.
Cutrell Collection. Santa Monica, Calif., 1961. Private tape recording of 44 songs, sung by the collector, Sandy Cutrell, with transcription of words in photoprint.
Cutting, Edith E. Whistling Girls and Jumping Sheep. Cooperstown, N.Y.: Farmers' Museum, 1951. See also at: Thompson, H.
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; Songs of Sadism; and the Introduction to G. LEGMAN, The New Limerick (1977), section "The Mask of Humor."
DALLAS, 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.
Damon, S. Foster. Series of Old American Songs. Providence, R.I.: Brown University Library, 1936.
Dance, Ms. Daryl Cumber. Shuckin' and Jivin' : Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. Rhymed "toasts," Chap. 13: pp. 197-239.
DAUG. See FAETUPAC Songbook.
"Dave E. Jones" [pseud.] See: "JONES, Dave E."
DAVIDS, R. M. See under: Robert W. GORDON.
DAVIS, Arthur Kyle, Jr. Folk-Songs of Virginia. A Descriptive Index and Classification. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1949.
__________. 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.
__________. 1928. "Some Problems of Ballad Publication" in Musical Quarterly 14:283-296.
Unusual in its discussion of the bawdy element in ballads. See following.
Davis, Jennie Doyne (ed.), Indiana University Song Book, no press indicated, Bloomington, Indiana, 1921.
DAY, Cyrus L., and Eleanore B. MURRIE. 1940. English Song-Books, 1651-1702. London: Bibliographical Society.
Has an 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.
Valuable 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, JL, John Patrick) 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; FAETUPAC Songbook; GETZ; and STARR.
DEEX, Arthur. Bibliography of Limerick Books.
The Delicious Chanter. (West, n.d.). Listed in Rose.
Del Torto, John. See: Painter Collection.
DE SOLA PINTO, Vivian. See: PINTO.
Devilcats Songs. 1953? Yellow Sea, off Sasebo, Japan: Marine Air Squadron VMF-212 "Devilcats," aboard aircraft carrier "Rendova [or Rendoa] 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 and FAETUPAC Songbook.
"DE WITT, Hugh" [pseud.]. 1970. Bawdy Barrack-room Ballads. London: Tandem. 16mo. Unreliable texts of 69 songs, 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. Limited Edition.
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. Many copies of this at Kinsey-ISR Library. Also see recording: The Stenographer. 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: U.C.L.A. Co-Op House.] 22 pp., 4to, mimeographed. (Copy: G. Legman.)
Curiously violent and aggressive bawdy students' song collection. Compare: Aleister CROWLEY; Cythera's Hymnal; Gloriœ Feminœ; and Songs of Sadism and Lust.
The Dirty Song Book. See: Cray, 1965; and Silverman, 1982.
Dixon, James J. Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England. London: Percy Society, 1846. See: Bell.
Dobie, J. Frank. "Ballads & Songs of the Frontier Folks." Texas and Southwestern Lore 6 (1927): 121-83 (publication of the Texas Folk Lore Society). Listed in LOGSDON.
Dobie, J. Frank. "Cowboy Songs." The Country Gentlemen, January 10, 1925, p. 9. Reprinted under the title "Why Cowboys Sing," in The Saturday Evening Post Saga of the American West. Indianapolis: Curtis Publishing, 1980. Listed in LOGSDON.
Dobie, J. Frank. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1952. Listed in LOGSDON.
Dobie, J. Frank. "More Ballads and Songs of the Frontier Folk." Foller de Drinkin' Gou'd 7 (1928): 155-80 (publication of the Texas Folk Lore Society). Listed in LOGSDON.
Dobie, J. Frank. The Mustangs. Boston: Little, Brown, 1952. Listed in LOGSDON.
Dobie, J. Frank. Some Part of Myself. Boston: Little, Brown, 1952. Dobie, J. Frank. "The Tempo of the Range." Western Folklore 26 (1967): 177-81. Listed in LOGSDON.
"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. 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: Farrar and Rinehart.
Expurgated soldiers' songs of World War I. 325 songs and bugle calls from the American Revolutionary War to World War I with music and notes. The most substantial of the U.S. military song collections.Compare: BROPHY and PARTRIDGE; and POSSELT.
DORSON, Richard M. MS collection of song-texts from students at Michigan State College and Indiana University, c. 1947-50ff, 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.
__________. "A Visit with Vance Randolph," in: Journal of American Folklore (1954) 67: 260.
__________. American Folklore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959.
Section on "G.I. Folklore" in chapter on "Modern Folklore." Compare: Military Songs folder &
__________. Handbook of American Folklore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.
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, Italy: Orioli. Annotated! Continued as: The Rhyme of All Flesh (Paris? ca. 1935), rare. Compare: "Nosti," and The Rhyme. 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.
The Downwinds DET Westpack: An Anthology of Rare Songs and Barroom Ballads. 1970. (Notes)
"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."
The Drunk's Album. 1942. New Guinea, or Goodenough Island, Papua: Royal Australian Air Force, #75 Squadron. 11 f., folio, mimeographed.
(Copies: Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Laycock Bequest, John Patrick.) 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.
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.
DUNDES, Alan, "Here I Sit: A Study of American Latrinalia," in: Kroeber Anthropological Soc. Papers (1966) 34: 91-105.
__________, ed. 1973. Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
Gives excellent texts of Negro tales and "toasts." Compare: ABRAHAMS; DANCE; JACKSON; and WEPMAN.
__________. "The American Game of 'Smear the Queer' and the Homosexual Component of Male Competitive Sport and Warfare," in Journal of Psychoanalytical Anthropology, 8 (1985): 115-129. 1985. (Notes)
Claims that there are homosexual underpinnings to warfare and cites some military songs.
_________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.
__________. When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators. Detroit, 1986.
A second volume 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.
__________, and Robert Georges. "Some Minor Genres of Obscene Folklore," in Journal of American Folklore (1962) 75: 221-26.
__________, and Carl Pagter. Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded: Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire. Austin, Texas, 1975. Repr., Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1978. Xeroxlore, an expurgated collection: also sequel:
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 to G. Legman by a nameless friend. Compare: "Toshka Barph"; Dirt, An Exegesis; and Songs of Sadism.
D'URFEY, Thomas, ed. Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy. 1698-1720. See: Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719-1720.
Durhan, James Patterson ("Bull"). Bull Durham's Songs of SACk 1965. (Notes)
Nine military songs mostly tradition. None bawdy. Perhaps to accompany the LP of the same name.
__________. Bull Durham's Songs of SEA. 1970. (Notes)
Over 100 military songs. Many are directly copies from other songbooks.
EBSWORTH, J. Woodfall. See: Bagford Ballads: Choyce Drollery; Roxburghe Ballads.
EDDINGTON, Neil A. 1965. "Genital Superiority in Oakland [California] Negro Folklore: A Theme," in 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, John Patrick.) 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," in 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.) Semi-bawdy humor, cartoons, and verse. Compare: BAKER; Sex to Sexty, and Jest on Sex.
ELIOT, T. S. "King Bolo (or Bungo) and his Great Black Queen." MS.
Manuscript of 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.
Ellis, Ronnie. Australian Graffiti. Sydney, 1975.
Elzey, W. H. Things about Things. Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 1946.
Emblidge, William Robert, "Song Book of the Ohio Wesleyan Chapter of Beta Sigma Tau," mimeographed, Kenmore, New York, 1953. Not seen. Listed in Reuss (1965).
EMMONS, Earl. See in: Rowdy Rhymes.
Emrich, Duncan, and Rae Korson. Child's Book of Folklore. 1947.
Eskimo Nell. See: The Ballad of Eskimo Nell, and compare: Luka Mudishchev.
ESKIN, Sam. 1939-1969. MSS.
(Copies: Library of Congress, Folklife Department). Sam Eskin approximately 128 bawdy manuscripts and, at least, nine bawdy field recordings. The bawdy field recordings are marked with a delta (Δ) and the bawdy manuscripts segregated from the other song material. See here for more details. Compare: GORDON Inferno.
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" in Journal of American Folklore 90:129-148.
EVANS, Nancy. See: Devilcats Songs.
Evans, Patricia Healy. Rimbles. New York: Doubleday, 1957. Children's rhymes.
FACETIA Americana. c. 1925. 8vo. (Copy: Denver Public Library, Morse-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
[FAETUPAC Songbook]. c 1953. 14 ff, 4to. Unpaginated.
The cover page for this untitled songbook mentions the VP-9 which was formed in 1951 and it is signed "Daug" which may be a nickname. Mildly bawdy texts.
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.) lithoprint.
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.) and Musa Pedestris, 1896.
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.
__________, and William Ernest Henley. Slang and Its Analogues. London: Privately Printed (Gibbings?) 1890-1909. 7 vols.; with revised vol. I, reprinted New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, 1966, with 75-page introduction by G. Legman, "On Sexual Speech and Slang."
Note extended erotic synonymies, grouped at "cream-stick" and "prick," "cunt" and "monosyllable;" and verbs and nouns for coitus at "greens" and "ride;" and prostitute at "barrack-hack," "tart," and "whore." Compare: Chapman; Trimble/Blake; and plagiarism by Cary, H.
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, for first time in America. Compare: Louis W. CHAPPELL; GETZ; LOGSDON; MASTERSON; and MacCOLL and SEEGER, Travellers' Songs.
The Female Fireships, The — A Satyre Against Whoring (Printed for E. Richardson, London, 1691). Listed in Rose.
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: 6th edition, PC. 710: ; 4th edition: Cambridge University Library Arcana and John Patrick)
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.
[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, JM, John Patrick.) 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, (1888-89); also Facetia Americana; Immortalia and Mooney.
Fiend Book 2002. 2002. (Notes)
FIFE, Austin E. "The Strawberry Roan and His Progeny," in: JEMF Quarterly (1972) VIII: 149-65. Note: for Fife collection index, see Walker, Barbara.
__________. "Anthology of Folk Literature of Soldiers of the Pacific Theater"
Not seen. According to Logsdon this is in the "Bawdy Songs" folder, Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; and in Fife Collection Archive, Utah.
__________., 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.
Fife Folklore Archives, Merrill Library, Utah State University, Logan.
This archival collection compiled by Austin E. and Alta S. Fife is composed of forty-one bound volumes of texts, music, and commentary and two subject collections—the Fife Mormon Collection (FMC) and the Fife American Collection (FAC). See also: Barbara WALKER.
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.
Fighter Pilot Songs: Songs Your Mother Wouldn't Teach You. (Notes)
Fighter Pilots Song Book, No. 77 Squadron. (Notes)
Fighter Pilots Song Book. 1963. (Notes)
The Fighter Pilots Hymn Book. See: William J. STARR.
Finger, Charles. Frontier Ballads. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1927.
Listing titles of some bawdy songs in passing.
__________. Sailor Shanties and Cowboy Songs. Girard, Kansas: E. Haldeman-Julius, 1923. Pamphlet. Compare: Shay.
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. (Notes) (Notes)
__________. 1945-2002. Vietnam Veteran's Oral History and Folklore Project Archive.
An important unpublished collection with over 2700 pages of military songs. This archive contains copies of approx. 70 military songbooks and other manuscript items. Almost everything dates from Vietnam War or later. Compare: GETZ, PATRICK.
Flanders, Helen, and Marguerite Olney. Ballads Migrant in New England. New York: Farrar, Strauss, 1953.
__________, and Phillips Barry. The New Green Mountain Songster. New Haven, 1939. Repr., Hatboro, Pa.: Folklore Associates, 1966.
The Flash Chaunter. (William West). Listed in Rose.
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.
The Fleet Air Arm Song Book.
ca. 1966. 12mo. Trade paperback. Perfect bound in stiff dark blue wraps. (Notes)
Filled with doggerel song, rhymes and fragments. An important collection of unexpurgated British military songs. Compare:
The Fleet Air Arm Song Book. Mark II. ca 1979. 208 pages. Perfect bound in stiff dark blue wraps.
This second edition is revised and includes bawdy & military songs up to the late 1970s. Even better than the 1st edition. (See contents). (Notes)
Fletcher, Curley W. Rhymes of the Round-Up. San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1917. Cited by Logsdon.
Flushed! The W.C. Companion. 1963. New York: Kanrom, Inc.
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.
Ford, Ira W. Traditional Music of America. 1940. Reprint, Hatboro, Pa.: Folklore Associates, 1965; and New York: Da Capo Press, 1978.
Ford, Robert. Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland. Paisley, Scotland, 1899-1901. New ed. 1904.
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.
The Foundling Hospital for Wit. (Edited by Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams.) London, 1743-49. 7 pts.
FOWKE, Edith. 1963. "Bawdy Ballads in Print, Record and Tradition," in Sing and String (Summer, 1963) Vol.II: No: 2:3-9.
The first article on the subject by a woman; in reply to "The Bawdy Ballad—In Print and In Fact," by G. Legman, 1959. Compare: Muir; and Green.
__________. 1965. Traditional Singers and Songs from Ontario. Hatboro, Penn.: Folklore Associates.
Supplemented by the following "A Sampling" article 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: Essays in Honor of Benj. A. Botkin, Bruce Jackson, ed., pp. 45-61. Hatboro, Penn.: Folklore Associates. Supplement to preceding. Supplement to her Traditional Singers and Songs from Ontario.
__________. 1970. Lumbering Songs from the Northern Woods. Austin, Texas.
__________. 1973. The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
__________. 1981. Sea Songs and Ballads from 19th-century Nova Scotia. New York: Folklorica.
__________. Bawdy Folksongs from Ontario. (MS.) Toronto, 1989.
Announced for publication, 2006, with Kenneth Goldstein. See GOLDSTEIN.
__________, and Richard Johnston. Folk Songs of Canada. Waterloo, Ontario, 1954.
Fox Club. 1938? Harvard MS bawdy verse album. See: Sweet Violets; and Oxford University.
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.
__________. English Verse: 1701-1750. (Bibliography of Burlesque and Satirical 18th Century Verse.) Cambridge University Press, 1975?
Admirably continues work on early-18th century by Prof. Ric