Here are a few of the songs which currently interest me. For songbooks, songs and recordings
categorized by informant you can click here under the proper category:
Rugby,
Hash House Harrier,
Fighter
Pilots,
College and
Children. Please note that rugby, hash house harriers, fraternities
share many, if not most, of the same drinking songs.
Boy Meets Girl. This is a relatively rare bawdy
song. As far as I know no folklorists have collected this song.
Bugger Off. This song is listed as
tradition by the Tim Maloy's and I have heard a few times locally.
Chamber Lye. (aka Von Hindenburg or John
Harroldson). This song is listed in the Erotic Muse first edition
even though the editor had doubts about its currency as a FOLK song. The Erotic Muse second edition omits this
song.
Chastity Belt.
This is a modern folksong that tries to imitate the Elizabethan style
song. I have traced it back to 1956/57 at a RAF party. It
may be of WWII RAF currency.
Craven A. This is a
rare bawdy song which has been collected by Ron Edwards in Australian and
still seems to survive in England where it is reported as being sung to a
different tune that the one on my single recording.
Diarrhea Song. This children's
song-chant made an appearence in the 1989 movie Parenthood.
The
Elephant's Bottom. This is apparently a English music hall song
which still survives almost exclusively in England.
Garter Fixer.
This bawdy song was known during WWII and it is found on the first Sportsdic Rugby Record. The it is also recorded on the Naughty Butt
Nice underground polka band record.
I Haven't Seen
Old Hitler For A Hell of A Time. There is very little written about
this old, now rare favorite WWII song.
I'm Looking Over My Dead Dog
Rover. This folk parody seems to have escaped the ken of folklorists.
I Shat Myself I Knew I Would.
So goes this song sung to various tunes including the "Old Hundredth",
"Hernando's Hideaway" and other unnamed tunes. Do you sing this song?
Are you willing to share your version?
I Used To Work In Chicago.
This is just a note on the performance of this old classic.
Napalm Sticks To Kids. This has been known as a
RECITATION, as a song and as a
CADENCE.
Sam, Sam the
Lavatory Man. Here is a recording of an old classic, "Sam, Sam the
Lavatory Man", which has rarely been recorded. The earliest report of this
song is in the
6pg typescript from 1945-47.
Swing Low Sweet Chariot.
Although this in not inherently a bawdy song, the MOTIONS which accompany this
song make it VERY OBSCENE.
Violate Me In The Violet Time. This song was known to G. Legman
and is the 1943 book Unexpurgated but apparently has not been tracked by
folklorists.
Yogi Bear. This bawdy version is
known to some rugby & hash house harrier groups. The non-bawdy
version is sung at summer-camps in the USA.
The Wild West Show. (aka The Hamburg
Circus,
Larry Turn the Crank). This song used to
be quite common but it has escaped being tracked by the folklorists.
Though mentioned in the first edition of the Erotic Muse, Ed Cray
still didn't have a second example of the tune for this song so it was,
regrettably, also left out of his
Erotic Muse II.
Woodpecker Song. This is NOT the sticking a finger in a woodpeckers
hole. Instead it is another song about a woodpecker pecking on different
types of trees.
