This website is an archive version of the drinkingsongs.net website
for California State University, Fresno. This archived
website will not be updated.
16 Sep 2006. Added the ca 1954
Fighting Squadron 192 Squadron Songbook.
19 Aug 2006. Received an important annotated
bawdy folklore book titled
Eat Beans, They Make You Astute with items collected from 1936 to
1986 by
Sue D'Pnymph
[pseud. of Richard T. Sniegocki] with research notes by Dr. James Withers [pseud.
of William Kinneth "Bill" McNeil].
8 Aug 2006. Talked with BoY GeOrge about the
songs he learned while playing rugby, in the military and while
hashing.
23 July 2006. Added
Cleopatra's Scrapbook 1928 and the index to the 1975
edition of
Snatches & Lays.
16 July 2006. Redesigned my
mp3 subsection.
11 July 2006. Over the last month I have made
extensive changes to the
Books &
Manuscripts subsection. If you have been there
recently, you should revisit that section.
10 July 2006. Added a few volumes of
My Secret Life.
9 July 2006. Found Billy A. who sang on the
Kappa Alpha Psi Black Greek Soundz CD.
2 July 2006. Added
The History of Toasting by Richard Valpy French.
28 Jun 2006.
- Added
The Limerick: A Facet of Our Culture.
- Revised this website's
Terms of Use.
22 Jun 2006. Reorganizing my commercially
recording mp3s.
There will be many broken links until I have time to upload the
changes.
20 Jun 2006. Added the ca 1958
Aces High: 317th FIS Songbook.
18 Jun 2006.
- Did an interview with Lisa B. about
songs sung at University of Pennsylvania.
- Added
Hadji Girl song.
- Did an interview with Bernadette B. about songs at Tau
Delta Phi at San Jose State University (California) in
1979-81.
16 Jun 2006. Added the ca 1943 book
Songs that Kearnsmen Sing.
15 Jun 2006. Added the 1716 book
A Discourse of Drinking Healths.
14 Jun 2006. Did an interview with Piedpiper 6
about songs sung by Marines during his service from 1944-67.
13 Jun 2006. Received a copy of the
18th Fighter Bomber Wing Songbook 1957
Kadena Air Base Okinawa.
12 Jun 2006. Received a copy of the
497 TFS
Hooters Songbook compiled by Kevin D. in 1988.
11 Jun 2006.
- Talked with Dennis Webb about songs sung in the British
Army in the 1950s. He sang a version of "Do Your Balls
Hang Low...Nelly Put Your Belly Close to Mine" to the tune
of "The Streets of Cairo".
- Talked with an anonymous 82 year old woman about the
party records and her purchasing the 78 recorded titled
"Uncle Tom's Cabin".
- Talked with Wes Grishaw about the recitation Pop Bottle
Pete which he learned in 3rd grade.
10 Jun 2006. Adding two good
children's songs
CDs.
8 Jun 2006. Placed up raw OCR for my 1883-97
bawdy broadside collection.
7 Jun 2006. Talked with Dr. Robert D.
Thornton (compiler of
Aloha Jigpoha), Lawrence C. Vincent and Gene Sosin
about the play at Boulder Colorado. Although
Thornton didn't remember anything of the songbook, Vincent
and Sosin were able to help me with the Boulder play which
appears in the Aloha Jigpoha. They also sang a few
ditties in Japanese and Pidgin English.
5 Jun 2006. Received a copy of the Feb 1945
songbook
Aloha Jigpoha.
4 Jun 2006. Revised my field collection
ZIP (145MB).
2 Jun 2006. Did an interview with Twinx H.
about "Violate Me In Violet Time" and a few drinking songs
learned from her family parties and from her husband while
he was a Yale.
30 May 2006. Talked with David Romas about
the
Perversity Files.
29 May 2006. Received a rhyme from Richard
Krause called
Teen Heaven.
22-31 May 2006. Placed up many raw
OCR texts
of songbooks and redesigned the songbook subsection.
16 May 2006.
- Did a telephone interview with Gladys Amburn-Queen. She
sang some songs and fragments learned in 1948 at college
in San Francisco.
- Added the second cassette of the
David Romas & Michael Fitzpatrick Collection
from Central Michigan University.
15 May 2006.
- Added the first cassette of the
David Romas & Michael Fitzpatrick Collection from
Central Michigan University. This is a companion to the
modified "P-File" songbook (OCR
&
PDF) sent to Ed Cray in 1995.
- Did an interview with
Yusuf N. He did a version of Piss-Pot Pete and a few
other rhymes and recitations learned when he was 10-14.
14 May 2006.
- Added an
OCR of the "Perversion-Files" from the
Central Michigan University Marching Band as sent to Ed Cray
in 1995. Three copies of the "P-Files" songbook, along
with two cassette tapes, are deposited at the Library of
Congress Folklife Archive where it is assigned the catalog
number AFC 1997/016
- Did a telephone interview with Ron Graham about
children's rhymes, drinking toasts and other doggerel
verse.
- Did a telephone interview with Patrick Weir about
The Medical Students Sing Rugby Songs LP issued in 1970
on the Sportsdisc records label.
12 May 2006.
- Added an attribution for the
song
God Will Fuck You Up. This is written and sung by
John Butler and is found on his
Surprise! cd.
- Talk with Gary Faulconbridge and Peter Sheppard
about the
I's Reunion Record the unique New Zealand EP record.
10 May 2006. Revised the
Hurbert Canfield Collection
(35MB) PDF. This file now contains an additional 240
pages. If you downloaded the earlier file,
please delete it and download the above file.
8 May 2006.
- Added the Fleet Air Arm (Royal Navy) songs & recitations of
John W. Herbert from 17 April.
- Added the rugby songs & recitations of
K.W. from 21 April.
6 May 2006.
- Talked with Jeff Morgan about
the Canfield Collection
(1925-26).
- Received a copy of
Songs of Raunch and Ill-Repute [May 1958] from Joe_F.
5 May 2006. Did a telephone interview with
Dave Forsaw.
4 May 2006.
- Received several important, early collections from
Ed Cray including the 300+ page
Hurbert Canfield Collection
(35MB) from 1925-26 and Rivinus Collection
from 1950-64.
- Placed up digital texts received from
Ed Cray.
26 Apr 2006. Received two songs from
Dave Forshaw:
Brothel In Cairo and
Rum & Coca-Cola.
25 Apr 2006. Added a
PDF which contains a variant of John Harroldson.
21 Apr 2006. Interviewed K.W. about rugby
songs learned in 1959-63.
20 Apr 2006. Added lyrics for
The Cardinals Be Damned and
Everywhere We Go.
19 Apr 2006.
- Added a mirror of Arthur Deex's
online illustrated
Some Limericks bibliography.
- Added texts for
Dangerous Dan McGrew and
The Pioneers.
17 Apr 2006. Did another telephone interview
with John W. Herbert. During this two hour conversation,
John sang many songs and fragments.
15 Apr 2006.
- Added two CDs from Sam Hilt:
Hey! Bin Laden Old Man and
To Be A Soldier. The latter CD was defective
and I am only able to provide previews of six
tracks.
- Added songs and rhymes recorded by
George Gittoes in Iraq.
- Did a telephone interview with 85 year old
John W. Herbert a WWII veteran about songs learned & sung while
serving in the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy. Of
note is the bawdy shanty
Every Good Ship Has A Main Mast
.
12 Apr 2006. Did a telephone interview with
Bill Person. He sang a few songs including
Happy Flier (aka
Bell Bottom Trousers),
Brassiere,
Toothbrush and
Show Me the
Way to Go Home. He learned these while in the
Civil Air Patrol in the mid 1950s.
9 Apr 2006.
- Talked again with the same
JR of 6
Apr. He sang a few more song fragments, cadences and
explained some army traditions and the context of songs.
- Added a cadence
subsection of drinkingsongs.net.
7 Apr 2006.
- Added the
My First Time recitation.
- Added a new text for
Diddlin' Nellie.
6 Apr 2006.
- Did a telephone interview with
JR. He sang
several songs and fragments learned in the army in Korea
in the early 1980s. Of note he sang: Napalm Sticks
to Kids and You Picked a Fine Time to Burn Me Ms Lee.
- Received the
My Thing Is My Own CD.
3 Apr 2006. Received a copy of The
Lay of John Haroldson.1866. Philadelphia. 12pp. Limited to 63 copies. 4to.
2 Apr 2006.
- Added
SteveG's songs and rhymes from the 5th of March.
- Added sung limericks from
1905 &
1908
found on Edison
cylinders.
- Added
Fart Master's songs and cadences from the 14th of
March.
1 Apr 2006. Did an interview with
Brian Aveney. He sang three songs: Cocaine Bill, Colgate and
High Above Cayuga's Waters.
31 Mar 2006. Added Grose's
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
30 Mar 2006.
- Added a flash version of the
Diarrhea Song.
- Finally discovered the tune for The Girls in France
(aka The Hootchy Kootchy Dance). This is
The Streets of Cairo.
- Added an unknown gospel parody
God Will Fuck You Up.
28 Mar 2006. Did a telephone interview
with
Peggy M. She sang some children's songs and
rhymes.
27 Mar 2006. Added
Songs Out of South Pool
by Chris Hart.
26 Mar 2006. Did a telephone interview
with an anonymous 37 year old woman from Wisconsin. She sang three children's songs:
Diarrhea,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
and
There's A Place In France.
25 Mar 2006. Did a telephone
interview with
Anne J. See sang one children's
song,
The Weenie Man, and a fragment of another.
22 Mar 2006.
- Added scans of the
front & back covers of an 1868
Loose & Humorous Songs of the Bishop Percy Folio Manuscript. It seems that there are at least three distinctive printings
of this "Supplement". This is an octavo and it is printed on
wove paper. Perhaps it was used as a way to sell the
three volume 8vo edition of "Ballads & Romances" and the
much more expensive 4to edition.
- Added a graffiti
subsection of my website. This is a minor
collecting area for me. So don't expect this
to be updated often.
21 Mar 2006. Added the
Barley Legal CD by The Poxy Boggards.
20 Mar 2006. Added the Harry
McClintock
The Great American Bum CD. This gives clean versions
of bawdy songs or songs which have bawdy parodies.
19 Mar 2006. Added the important Drolleries:
Musarum Deliciae (1655), Wit
Restor'd (1658), Wits' Recreations (1640) and Outlandish Proverbs (1640) along with the raw OCR output
for each item:
Musarum Deliciae
Wit
Restor'd
Wits' Recreations
Outlandish Proverbs
If you are interested in seeing a particular text,
please download the
PDFs (50MB)
made from the 2 vol. Hotten reprint.
18 Mar 2006. Added raw OCR output for the
1825 book
Tavern Anecdotes. If you wish to verify the
text, please download the
PDF. This book gives a glimpse into
drinking culture of the Regency period. This book
mentions the Coal Hole Tavern and other infamous dens of
iniquities.
17 Mar 2006.
- Added
Loose & Humorous Songs (10MB) of the Bishop Percy Folio Manuscript
(ca 1643). This PDF is derived from the 1867 quarto first
edition which precedes the octavo printing of 1868.
- Did a telephone interview with
Traci A Ohren. She
sang
Molly Brown (a cadence) and
The Monkey And The Baboon
(a children's rhyme).
16 Mar 2006.
- Received a telephone call from a
anonymous 36 year old woman. This recording will be
completely private and available only to folklorists. She sang a version of "Let Her Sleep Under the Bar" and "The
Unicorn Song".
- Received a copy of The Theta Epsilon Omicron Iota
Fraternity Pledge Manual ca 1973 from Upsala College
in East Orange, NJ. This is an important find with
twelve pages of mimeographed text. It includes six
songs of which three are bawdy. This manual also
gives specifications
on the size & construction of the pledge paddle &
blindfold which would be used during initiations.
- I did a telephone interview with an anonymous member of
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He did one chant,
Everywhere We Go, which he learned in 2000 during his
initiation.
14 Mar 2006.
- Did a telephone interview with
William Vanneman about
songs sung at Cornell University from 1927-31. He sang
Fascinating Bitch, In Bohemia Hall,
It's The Same The Whole World Over,
Michael Finnegan and
Don't Send My Boy To Harvard.
- Did a telephone interview with Fart Master about
songs learned while hashing from 1992-2006.
12 Mar 2006. Did a telephone interview with an
anonymous 26 year old
woman. She sang three children's ditties including:
Diarrhea,
Never Laugh When A Hearse Goes By and
The Comet Song.
9 Mar 2006.
- Added a reference to the bawdy songs in the
Sam Eskin collection (1939-69) to the
bibliography. I need copies of the manuscripts & recordings.
- Added the
Why Santa Was Late Hallmark Christmas card from ca 1937.
- Did another interview with
Joseph G.
8 Mar 2006.
- Added the text of Arthur Argo's
Ye Ken Pretty Well What I Mean-O.
- Added
Rude Dudes double CD.
- Added the
One Can Short of a 6 Pack CD.
7 Mar 2006. Since I believe that the amount of
material already present on drinkingsongs.net has reduced the number
of new informants, I have removed the search box. Although
everything is still here, it will not be easily displayed
and therefore less intimidating to someone who runs across the
site.
6 Mar 2006.
- Received Sam Hilt's
Apres la Guerre 3CD set of military songs.
- Received
Occupational Folksongs of the US Air
Force CD.
- Received a copy of
Jonathan Myer's 1962-1964 self-taped field recordings.
-
The Bronco Book: Collector's Edition (19 TASS, Osan
AB, Korea) [nd (ca 1980), np] [v], 71p. 4to.
5 Mar 2006. Did a two hour telephone interview
with Steve Gardham. It will take a while before I get this
up.
4 Mar 2006. Added an
Untitled Hessle RUFC Song Book ca 1960. This is lacking songs
18, 31, 36 & 39 but it may be an incomplete reprint of an
earlier songbook.
2 Feb 2006. Added
Vol. 1
of Gene Kandos & Joe Shaw two CD set.
28 Feb 2006. Found a sung verse of
Napalm
Stick to Kids.
27 Feb 2006.
- Added
Iris &
Rose's four CDs of bawdy "Rein-Fair" songs.
- Major additions to the
bibliography.
25 Feb 2006. Added G. Legman's
outstanding
Merry Muses of Caledonia Bibliography from his 1965 book.
24 Feb 2006. Added G. Legman's
Bawdy Monologues and Rhymed Recitation article.
23 Feb 2006. Added the
Here We Are! LP by The Goldcoast Singers. They wrote
the song "Plastic Jesus" in 1959. This is their first
release of this song (March 1962).
20 Feb 2006. Added an English language
bibliography
of erotic folklore including songs, toasts, cadences and
graffiti. This combines the
entries of Legman (1989 & 1992), Logsdon, Cray, Reuss and
Fish. It also lists items in my collection and gives download links when
possible.
18 Feb 2006.
- Received the ca 1954
Songs of the 8th Fighters (PDF
7MB). This is the third printing of this 8th
Fighter-Bomber Wing songbook.
- Placed up the children's songs of
Eloise
from the 5th of July 2005.
- Placed up the songs sung by
Sara & Menard J. on the 11th
of July 2005.
- Placed up the songs sung by
Andy C. on the 12th of July 2005.
- Placed up the songs sung by
C.
A. on the 12th of July 2005.
- Placed up one song sung by an
anonymous woman on the 16th of August 2006.
17 Feb 2006. Added the rhymes & songs of
Walter Deyherle and his wife from the 1st Feb.
16 Feb 2006. Added
Songs
of Sigma Chi CD.
15 Feb 2006. Added the songs and recitations of
Joseph G. from the 5th of Feb.
14 Feb 2006.
- Received two books from Arthur Deex: The Bawd's Book and his reissue of
To Solace the Blind.
- Added an 18 Dec 1931 version of
Sweet Violets
written by Benny Samberg (aka Benny Bell), sung by Bob
Dickson and issued on the Blue Bird label.
Benny Bell claims to have written this
song in 1922.
13 Feb 2006. Added Arthur Deex's limerick
periodicals & other limerick items to his
bibliography.
12 Feb 2006. Received an annotated Limerick
bibliography from Arthur Deex in PTS format. I here is a
simple
HTML version
of the database.
11 Feb 2006.
- Added lyrics to
I Wouldn't Say No To A Naughty (aka Earl's Court Blues).
- Added link the partially typed out text of
The Stag Party
ca 1888.
10 Feb 2006.
- Added the mp3s from
Glenn Ohrlin from the 8th of January.
- Added the
Beat the Band to the Bar CD.
- Added the lyrics to
I Used
to Work in Chicago from 1946 as sung by Three Bits of
Rhythm on the Modern Music label.
8 Feb 2006. Added the mp3s from
Robert S. from the 24th of January.
7 Feb 2006.
- Added a ca 1946 version of
I Used to Work in Chicago
on the Mercury record label.
- Added
1601 by Mark Twain from a ca 1906 reprint.
6 Feb 2006. Added C.R. McPherson's
A Minor Thesaurus of Rural Metaphor (PDF
3MB). Thanks Mac for your permission to issue the booklet.
5 Feb 2006.
- Added a sung version of
The Street of a Thousand Assholes.
- Did another interview with
Joseph G.
4 Feb 2006. Added Barry Humphries
Moonee Ponds Muse Vol.1. This has the Vietnam era drinking
song "Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea".
1 Feb 2006.
- I have revised my
toasting section. It now incorporates most of the goodtoasts.com website. These
pages need to extensively edited
and reformatted. Thanks Peggy for the suggestion.
- Did a face-to-face interview with
Walter Deyherle.
30 Jan 2006.
- Added texts for
Seamus Kennedy's CDs.
- Added
The Raven compiled by Jim Roper for the 1990 Raven FAC reunion.
- Received a copy of "I Used To Work
In Chicago" sheet music from 1946.
29 Jan 2006.
- Added the text of a
tavern leaflet
ca.1943 .
- Added several texts of
The Night of the King's Castration.
- Added
There's
a Place in France (aka The Hootchie Kootchie Dance).
- Added text & tune for
Nellie Put Your Belly Close To Mine by James M. This uses the same tune as "The Hootchy Kootchy Dance".
- Added text of
I'm Looking Over My Dead Dog Rover
as done by Hank, Hank
& Stu.
28 Jan 2006. Added the songs of the
Ian Cumming
from 18 Jan 2006.
27 Jan 2006. Added
Edison Recordings: Humorous Songs.
25 Jan 2006.
- Added
Viper Mad Blues: 25 Songs of Dope and Depravity.
- Added
field recordings from an old wire recorder.
- Added a 1946 version of
I Used To Work In Chicago on the Modern Music label.
24 Jan 2006. Did an interview with
Robert S. He
played rugby in New Zealand in the 1930s before he came to the US. He only had one fragmented song.
22 Jan 2006.
- Added
The Great War CD.
- Added the 1st edition of
The Spud Hymnal.
19 Jan 2006. Added Stan Bloom's
The Spud Hymnal. You can download the revised 2004 PDF
here (240KB).
18 Jan 2006.
- Added texts for two versions of Plastic
Jesus: the
Paul Newman and the original
Goldcoast Singers versions.
- Interviewed Ian Cumming about rugby songs, hash songs and other
drinking songs & traditions. It will take a while to get this
up because I still haven't edited Glenn Ohrlin's interview.
17 Jan 2006.
- Added the
Please Warm My Weiner CD.
- Added lyrics for
Sunshine.
16 Jan 2006.
- Added Elsa Lanchester's
Bawdy Cockney
Songs LP.
- Finished processing Ronnie J.'s 78 records. I now have a
decent collection of
Party Record Company 78s.
15 Jan 2006.
- Added Joseph G's songs from
8 Jan 2006.
- Added
Only An Old Beer Bottle
lyrics.
14 Jan 2006. Added a version of
A Soldier I Will Be as sung by
The
Asylum Street Spankers on 26 March 2005 at Off Broadway in
Saint Louis.
11 Jan 2006. Added Monty Python's
Philosopher's Song. This sung by some Hash House Harriers.
10 Jan 2006. Added Cliff Ferre's
Looks
Like Fun LP.
9 Jan 2006. Received 20 party 78 records from Ronnie J. I will digitally convert them in the next few days.
8 Jan 2006.
- Did an interview with Glenn Ohrlin about the context
of cowboy songs.
- Did another interview with Joseph G. He sang numerous
ditties & fragments.
7 Jan 2006.
- Added the lyrics to
Camp Songs by the Pixie Players.
- Added
College Drinking Songs by The Blazers.
- Added
Barrack Room Ballads by The Squaddies.
- Added
Party Hits Volume I on the Trash Records label.
- Added lyrics for
Pub
Party by Bob Smith & company.
6 Jan 2006. Added
Hard Knight at Dirty Dick's on AO records (Australia).
5 Jan 2006. Added
AC-DC
Blues: Gay Jazz Reissues Vol. 1 on the Stash record label.
4 Jan 2006. Added
Bawdy Party Songs by John Currie on the Party Record label in
Australia.
3 Jan 2006. Added
Songs We Learned At Our Mother's Knee (& Other Low Joints) by
Arden & Maisie.
2 Jan 2006. Added the
Summer Session and
Rush Week LPs by Doug Clark & The Hot Nuts. With these two LPs,
I have all Doug Clark LPs online.
1 Jan 2006.
- Added
Songs My
Mother Never Sang by Homer and Jethro.
- Added
The Blue Kangaroo
at the Schooner: Straight & Trashy LP.
- Did an interview with
Darren B. We discussed rugby singing and the context of
rugby songs.
31 Dec 2005. Added Ed McCurdy's
Barroom Ballads. This has
Persian Kitty as a recitation.
30 Dec 2005.
- Received the ca 1984 Red River
Rats Song Book. This book was purchased with a Marine Air Controller
Squadron 6 history from 1963.
- Added descriptions of the songs found on the
Them Dirty Blues 5 LP boxed set.
29 Dec 2005.
- Added the Carson J Robison:
Real Hillbilly Legend CD.
- Still fixing broken mp3 links. I am now down to 160 broken
links.
25 Dec 2005. I used MusicMatch to rename my mp3
collection thereby incorporating spelling corrections and other
annotations . This has resulted in over 950 broken links. It
will be a few days before I can get that down to zero.
23 Dec 2005. Did an interview with an anonymous 21 year
old woman who knows Zeta Phi Beta chants and songs. The recording
came out blank because the plug-in to the recorder was not pushed in all
of the way.
21 Dec 2005.
- Received the 1876 Carmina
Collegensia songbook.
- Received a Larry Vincent 45 record with
Those Old Red Flannels That Maggie Wore and
The Old Homestead.
20 Dec 2005. Did an interview with Bil M. He sang
one song: Everybody Picks On Me.
18 Dec 2005. Added the
Wild and Wonderful
Diana Sisters LP.
17 Dec 2005. Did another interview
with
Joseph G. He sang a play-party children's
jump-rope song and a fragment of the
Hoochie
Koochie Dance.
16 Dec 2005.
- Added
The Diana Sisters
Go Wild! LP.
- Did another interview with
Joseph G.
15 Dec 2005.
- Added the
Sea Songs and Shanties [Traditional English Songs from the Last Days of
Sail] CD.
- Added the
Barrack Room Ballads LP from
Boulevard Records.
14 Dec 2005.
- Added the Billy Devroe LP
Censored.
Notable songs on this record are
Jerico and
Matches
and BVDs.
- Did another interview with
Patrice G.
- Did an interview with
Joseph G.
13 Dec 2005. Placed up a transcription of a 45
record titled
Mr. Speaker.
11 Dec 2005. Added the two record LP titled
Pub
Party: Over 50 Sing-a-long Pub Songs. This is good for tunes
for a few songs.
10 Dec 2005.
- Added Bob Coltman's
Petting Her Cat cassette.
- Added the
Camp Songs CD by the Peter Pan Pixie Players.
- Interviewed
Eric
G. He sang an unusual song about
The Farmer and the Maiden.
8 Dec 2005. Did an interview with an
anonymous
woman. She sang a version of
Violate Me In Violet Time which she
learned in UC-Berkley in 1950.
7 Dec 2005. Recreated my preview mp3s using MP3
Surgeon 2004. This program made 5900 preview mp3s in only 8
minutes.
5 Dec 2005.
- Received the Cap Pellitier's
The Official Rugby Book (Songs and Other Strange Stuff)
1993 Revised 2nd edition.
- Added Doug Clark & The Hot Nuts:
Greatest Hits Collection CD.
- Received
Carmina Yalensia (1867). This has "The
Menagerie" and, reportedly, the earliest example of "The Rambling
Wreck of George Tech" tune.
4 Dec 2005. Added the
Panty Raid LP by Doug Clark & The Hot Nuts.
3 Dec 2005.
- Added the ca 1815
Banquet of Dainties (19MB) by James Maidment. Not much
traditional bawdy material but it is good to have this for
comparison.
- Revised my
Sweet
Violets listings. I have included 4 or 5 extra versions of
these two songs.
2 Dec 2005. Added the 7" LP
Songs His Mother
Never Taught Him by Dwight Fiske.
30 Nov 2005.
- Did an interview with WF Peifer about
The Hole in Bottom of the Sea.
- Added John Valby's
Beaver Fever CD from 1988.
28 Nov 2005.
- Added the 1947
Blue Ox Song Book (30MB). Mildly ribald texts from a ski
lodge.
- Added an
untitled ski lodge songbook (7MB) with which was purchased in
conjunction with the Blue Ox Song Book above. This untitled
songbook has no identifying marks as to publisher or place of
publication but does have the blue ox symbol on the title page and
end page.
27 Nov 2005.
- Added more
Larry Vincent 78s on the Pearl Record label. I am only
lacking two or three from this label.
- Added a few more anonymous white labeled 78s including:
Strawbwrry [sic] Roan,
and its flipside
Snappy Stories,
Untitled
[Bawdy Song] and
its flipside
Untitled
[Bawdy Dialog]. The last two items have no
identifying text.
- Added many more 78 records. See my
revised list here.
25 Nov 2005.
- Added the
Fighter Pilots Hymn Book (11MB) by William Starr.
- Added the songs sung by
James McWilliam. He sang several unusual songs including: Cardinals
Be Damned,
Old COP We Owe Our Abortions,
Rio Rio Bully-o Rio,
We Are
the Nuns of COP and
We Go
to Campus Hall.
24 Nov 2005. Added the John Valby CD:
Valby Rocks His Balls Off.
22 Nov 2005.
- Added three John Vably CDs:
Butt Seriously Folks,
Butts Up
Doc and
Half In The Fuckin' Bag.
- Removed the
James McWilliam collection from my site as it contains
copyrighted materials.
21 Nov 2005.
- Added the
lyric sheet which
accompanies the Moshi Moshi Anone 78 record.
- Received the Larry Vincent LP:
Listen and
Laugh No.2.
- Did a telephone interview with
James McWilliam. Jim a source for The Castration of the
Strawberry Roan referenced by Gershon Legman. He learned the song from a 78
party record.
20 Nov 2005.
- Added the
Oscar Brand Sings For Adults LP.
- Added the
Hearty Rugby Songs LP.
- Added several 78 records:
- Larry Vincent on Pearl Records
- Pearl Records compilation of 78s
- Paul Wynn
- Unknown
- [Larry Vincent]
- [plain white label 78 with dark blue text]
16 Nov 2005. Added Oscar Brand's
Every Inch A Sailor LP.
15 Nov 2005.
- Added three Erosonic CDs: Live at Leeuwarden,
The Juvat Boys Choir Headhunters,
Passing The Flame.
- Added the Cap Pelletier book
The Official Rugby Song Book (And Other Strang Stuff).
14 Nov 2005.
- Added the
Songs For Fun LP by Hattie Noel and Billy Mitchell.
- Added the
Bawdy
British Ballads LP by Big Theo Johnson.
- Added the
Rugby Songs Party LP by The Scrum Halves on the Major Minor Records
label.
- Added the
Barrack Room Ballads LP by The Bullshiners on the Major Minor
Records label.
- Added the
Rugby Songs LP on the Boulevard Records. This includes a
few rare songs.
- Added the
Songs The Censor Missed! on the Party Record Company
[Australia].
13 Nov 2005.
- Made available the
1971-72 VMA- 224 USS Coral Sea Song Book (Notes).
- Did a telephone interview with Vince Marino. He sang
Please Don't Burn The Shithouse Down which he learned in 1942-43
while in the US Army.
- Hooked up my turntable again and have started recording a few of
my LPs. Expect new preview mp3s soon.
12 Nov 2005. Received the
Golden Car Songs: Camp
Song Favorites cassette.
11 Nov 2005. Did a telephone interview with an
anonymous woman. She sang a more melodic version of the
Diarrhea
Song.
10 Nov 2005.
- Added the
Ring-Dang-Doo LP by Jill Lass & the Follies. This female
night club comedian sings two bawdy songs.
- Did a telephone interview with
Patrice G. She sang a couple of unusual children's songs
and one unusual rhyme.
8 Nov 2005. Added Les Cleveland's 1975
Songs We Sang LP. This LP is a reissue of the songs found on
his 1959 Songs We Sang 10" LP and his 1962 More Songs We Sang. Thank you Michael Brown for sending this to me from New Zealand.
7 Nov 2005.
- Added the Molly Bennett cassette
The Bawdy Beautiful.
- Added the
R-Certificate Song Book Vol.2.
Thanks Michael Brown for giving me this.
6 Nov 2005.
- Redid my
field collection ZIP (111MB).
- Received a ca 2000
Stray Dog Hash Hymnal.
4 Nov 2005. Received my order of 13 DVDs of the 15
DVDs I order from StompShow.com. It took three months and I am
still lacking two DVDs.
3 Nov 2005. Cut up the Hash House Harrier DVD by Naked
Prey. Some video of songs in a few days. One unusual song
from this DVD is
Build A Bonfire.
2 Nov 2005. I received the Ivor Biggun
Handling Swollen
Goods CD.
31 Oct 2005. Found a video of the
Diarrhea Song.
30 Oct 2005. Only 425 broken internal links.
Should have this down to zero in a day or so.
29 Oct 2005.
- Received the Jeanne Robertson: The Queen Among The Heather CD.
- Down to 1214 broken internal links.
28 Oct 2005. Received the Uni Song Book (1966) by
Best. Thanks Malcolm!
27 Oct 2005. Used MusicMatch to rename my MP3s.
This renaming incorporates my spell corrections and annotations for the last
year. This has also resulted in over 5000 broken links.
25 Oct 2005. Received The Digger & Jovial Songster.
This Australian booklet (ca 1937) contains cleaned up versions of a few
bawdy songs including a version of "I Love My Wife".
22 Oct 2005.
- Added two
CDs both titled The Gay Caballero. These CDs are
important because they give other cleaned up bawdy songs sung by
Frank Crumit.
- I have limited my
download all mps
page to just my field recordings. If anyone is interested in
knowing my complete 6700 mp3 collection (currently), they can see
that here.
21 Oct 2005.
- Did a face-to-face interview with
R.E. Van Guilder at a local VFW. He did several rhymes he
learned from his father.
- Received a copy of the 1994 Jakarta HHH
Songbook Pocket Edition. Thanks Mal !
20 Oct 2005. Placed up lyrics to the
We Say No To Your War CD.
19 Oct 2005.
- Added the 5 CD set
Hoosier Hot
Shots: Everybody Stomp. These novelty humor songs are
useful for comparison with the underground unexpurgated printed versions
of the same songs.
- Placed up the CD
Bawdy Briny Ballads: Oscar Brand Sings Sea Porn. Nothing
new here.
- Placed up the expurgated and bowdlerized CD
She Was Poor But She Was Honest by Derek Lamb.
17 Oct 2005. Added the CD
Vintage Children's Favourites 1926-1950.
16 Oct 2005.
- Added a PDF of the 1943 book
Unexpurgated by Bidet Press.
- Added the lyrics to Seamus Kennedy's
CDs.
- Received a copy of the 27 September 1943 LIFE magazine article "Soldiers Still
Sing". This lists many bawdy song titles being sung by
soldiers during WWII.
- Added the CD by Filthy Fred & Dirty Dick
CRUD.
- Added the CD
Frank Crumit Returns.
- Added the CD
Risqué Rhythm: Nasty 50s R&B.
15 Oct 2005.
- Added the CD
Naughty Nostalgia.
- Added the OCRed text for
The Complete and Official Unexpergated (sic) Roadtrip Songbook.
- Received the 1963 University of Queensland Song Book.
- Add
At
the Pub with Bob Smith. This is a good performance of
some unusual songs.
10 Oct 2005.
- Added my recordings of limericks to
the limericks
page.
- I added the non-traditional song
Who Were You Thinking Of (When We Were Making Love Last Night)? by
the Texas Tornados.
- Added a few unusual songs texts:
Brassiere,
Leprosy and
My Turtle Has Tuberculosis.
9 Oct 2005.
- Added the
58 children's songs sung by
Harold Harvey. The tunes for several of these songs are used for
bawdy songs.
- Song texts for several songs:
Alphabet Song,
Penis Envy,
For Those In Peril On The Sea,
The Elephant's Bottom and
We Want Her Panties.
8 Oct 2005.
- Added the ca 1982 songbook
The Complete and Official Unexpergated (sic) Roadtrip Songbook.
Thanks Mal!
- Added lyrics for the songs on Stag Party in London Vol.2:
Cats on the Rooftop,
Chicago, Dinah,
Knobby Hall,
Rim Ram Roo,
Roll Me Over In The Clover,
Sweet Violets,
The Ball of Kerrymuir,
The Doggies Meeting,
The Mayor of Baywater's Daughter,
The Sexual Life of the Camel and
Whoredean School.
7 Oct 2005. Received another songbook from Mal Jones:
Randwick [RFC] Old-Wicks Songbook.
6 Oct 2005.
- Revised my
aviation songbooks page. I placed up many previously unlinked
songbooks.
- Added more field recorded songs from the
On-On Podcast.
- Received 4 songbooks from
Mal Jones:
Old Golds Song Book, Unknown Song Book (from
photocopy), Harlequin Song Book (New Zealand) and The
Human Biology Songbook and two MS-Word files of RAE songs and
cadences.
4 Oct 2005. Added the Yankee Air Pirate Songbook.
Here is a B&W
PDF and a color
PDF of the songbook.
3 Oct 2005. Did an interview with
Mike R. The recorder cut out because of low batteries so I need to reinterview
him.
2 Oct 2005. Added the
Men song by
Martin Mull. This song is found in several rugby songbooks.
1 Oct 2005.
- Found melody for "When It's Hog Calling Time In Nebraska". The tune is "Red River Valley".
- Discovered an extra
verse for "When It's Hog Calling Time".
- Placed up the related song "If Your Girlfriend Tastes Like Shit"
down-down song.
30 Sept 2005. Did an interview with
Horn-E
of the Chicago Full Moon Hash.
27 Sep 2005. Added a song text for
Three Jolly Coachmen by
The Kingston Trio.
25 Sep 2005.
- Added texts for Stag Party In London
Vol.1.
- Did an interview with an
anonymous woman. She sang several unusual songs including:
Brassier,
Leprosy and
My Turtle Has Tuberculosis.
- Added the
McWilliams' collection of limericks and songs. Much of
this is not bawdy but it is good to have nonetheless.
23 Sept 2005.
- Added Double Valby: Don't Go Soft On Me Now / Your Face Or Mine
CD.
- Talked with Malcolm Jones the compiler/editor of
The Penultimate Book of Rugby Songs.
22 Sept 2005. Added
Raunchy Rock & Roll Vol. 2.
20 Sept 2005. Did an interview with
Haruo.
He sang
The Deitsch Company which is an older
version of the
Goddamned Dutch.
18 Sept 2005.
- Did telephone interview with
Allan J. a marine fighter pilot.
- Added lyrics and mp3 for the non-bawdy
Eton Boating Song.
The tune for this song is used for
The Sexual Life of the Camel,
We're All Queers Together and
Charlotte the Harlot Lay Dying.
- Added Fuck-Lorist's
Hash House
Harrier Songs Volume 1 CD.
17 Sept 2005. Received a collection of
Benny Bell
recordings.
13 Sept 2005. Added the girl scout songs from
Service Unit 624.
12 Sept 2005.
- Added
The
Scotsman's Kilt as sung by Seamus Kennedy. This version has
two verses not seen before.
- Received a copy of
The Penultimate Book of Rugby Songs and
Other Socially Tasteless Verses.
11 Sept 2005. Added Mark Twain's
1601.
10 Sept 2005. I found out that the songs on the homemade CD were pirated from
www.notascout.net.
This songs are ultimately derived from a cassette sold by the Ozark
Council of the Girl Scouts.
9 Sept 2005. Added
Girl Scout Camp Songs (Homemade CD).
7 Sept 2005.
- Added song text of
The Bonny Black Hair from the
Bird In The
Bush CD.
- Added variant texts of the
Raping/Eating
Your Date ditty.
6 Sept 2005. Added song text for
I Want To Be A College Man
and
She's Beautiful With Spacious Thighs.
5 Sept 2005.
- Added Carmina Princetonia 1900
edition (PDF 10MB).
- Added text for
The Eighteen Pounder,
The Wanker's Song,
Landlord Fill The Flowing Bowl and A
Fairy Story.
4 Sept 2005.
- Added songs sung by
Ian Cumming on 17 July 2005.
- Added songs sung by
Giles R. on 1 August 2005.
- Added texts:
Black-eyed Susie,
Blue Balls from Bellman,
Bucket of Beer,
Damn Her Old Soul,
In Mexico,
Ring Dang Do,
Organ Grinder,
I Gave Her Inches One,
My Ding-a-ling,
Davy's Dinghy,
Toy Bell,
The Pill,
The Date Song,
Ice Man,
Don't Cry Lady,
A-Roving and
The Castration of the Strawberry Roan.
- Added the
Crud CD by Filthy Fred and Dirty Dick
- Added Robert Burns'
The Merry Muses CD.
- Added
The R-Certificate Songbook LP with the unusual song
The Hermit.
1 Sept 2005.
- Added preview
video of a
field recording of "The Yogi Bear Song" sung by the University of Northern Iowa Varsity Men's Glee Club.
- Added a text for
Maggie May found on the Rugby Songs Vol 2 LP.
28 August 2005. I've placed up many more texts for
Sigma Gamma Rho and
Zeta Phi Beta chants.
27 August 2005. Added lyrics to a few Sigma Gamma Rho
chants:
What You've Been Told,
SGRho Is So Unique,
Take It Slow,
Walking Down The Street,
How Does It Feel? and
No One Can Do It.
26 August 2005.
- Added more black greek chants:
Chant Medley,
Kappa Sweetheart,
This House Is Full,
Wine, Women & Neckbones,
The Legend,
AKA Is Deep,
Ladies of Distinction and
Kappa-bet.
- Received a PDF copy of the ca 1956
Party Songs of Alpha Sig:
Beta Theta Rutgers. This is from the Rutgers' Beta Theta
Chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi.
- Added
Rude Rock & Dirty Ditties CD
25 August 2005.
- Added three CDs of
102 Full Length Camp Songs.
- Added lyrics to a few black greek chants:
Don't Step to This,
Invictus,
To Be An Alpha Man,
Psalms 133,
You Can Not Slide,
Years Ago,
Sweetheart Song and
In 1908.
24 August 2005.
It Started Back in 1913,
What is a Delta? and
Sigma-bet.
23 August 2005. Added lyrics for
The
Cuckoo,
Looking Over Jordan and
A Peach is a Peach.
22 August 2005. Placed up AKA chant lyrics for
Red & White (Red & Gold),
Skeee-Weee,
Woke Up This Morning,
I Finally Became an AKA and
I See The Light.
21 August 2005.
- Placed up songs & chants by
J. R.
- Added transcriptions of three different versions of the "Old Red
Flannel Drawers That Maggie Wore".
-
Summit Records Version
-
Les Cleveland's Version
-
John Meredith / Rob Willis Collected Version
Compare these versions with the children's song
Willie's Underwear.
20 August 2005. Added a couple of songs found on the
5 Penny Piece On Stage Again
LP.
The two songs are
Piddling Pete and
Bantam Cock.
18 August 2005. Did an interview with J. R. about
black Greek songs & chants.
16 August 2005.
- Received The Pinder of Wakefield
(1632) reprint from 1956. This contains many songs and ditties.
Two of these are mildly bawdy or scatological.
- Removed local mirror of the Alpha Phi Omega
/ Epsilon Lambda Official Bawdy Songbook.
- Placed up some previews of
Songs My Brothers Taught Me: The Songs of Delta Upsilon
International Fraternity.
15 August 2005.
- Added song lyrics for
Little Gomez,
The
Little Fly,
Sarah Sarah,
The
Old Sow,
Do You Fuck On First Dates?,
Gay Caballero and
You Can't Say Cunt In Canada.
- Add the CD
If It Ain't A Hit ...Them Dirty Blues.
- Received Joe Davis' Songs Thy Don't Sing In School.
14 August 2005.
- Placed up Jean Redpath's Songs
of Robert Burns series. This series has two bawdy songs
Nine Inch Will Please a Lady
and
The Fornicator.
- Put up lyrics for
Christofo Columbo,
Shave 'em Dry,
Lady Chatterley,
Jenny Wren Bride and
She Was Only A Postmaster's Daughter.
- Placed up more preview mp3s for Seamus Kennedy's
CDs.
- Added the
SAE Songfest CD: A Blast from the Past.
- Added Doug Clark & The Hot Nuts:
Greatest Hits CD.
13 August 2005.
- Added preview mp3s for
Ribald Classics Vol.2:
Aboard the Good Ship Venus. All the songs in the Ribald
Classic LPs on the AO Records label were reissued on
The Pork
Duke Presents CDs.
- Added some song texts for
Sir Roger of Kildare and
The Pheasant Plucker.
- Added more Buy Now links for CDs.
12 August 2005. Added song texts to most of the songs
sung at the
1990 Raven FAC reunion.
11 August 2005. Added the
Beta Theta Pi: The
Singing Fraternity CD.
10 August 2005.
- Added text to
Friendly Little Cat. This may be derived from David Allan
Cole's
The Kitty Cat Song
which is probably derived from
Connie Vannet's
version.
- Added a January 1994 MS-WORD version of ZiPpY's
Definitive Hash Song Book. Thanks TuTu Fairy for sending me
this.
8 August 2005.
- Added text for the song
Texas Boys
on the Fax Records label. All(?) of the songs on the
Fax label are
pirated from various Oscar Brand records but I am unable to find an
Oscar Brand version of this song.
- Added text of
4 or 5 times. I like this song and it is a
good performance but I don't know if it is traditional or not.
5 August 2005.
- Added songs texts for the Dinah Shore
version of Sweet Violets,
Sam Hall Chimney Sweep and a bawdy
My
Ding-a-ling (not Chuck Berry's version)
- I added Buy Now links for several CDs. Hopefully I will
not be receiving as many emails from people who want to purchase but
can't do a proper google search.
- Added three field recordings done by the
On-On Podcast.
These songs & recitations are
Here's To The Boys,
Rough And Tough and
I Don't Want To Join The Army.
2 August 2005.
- Added an 1840s bawdy joke titled
Tom Brown's Jest Book.
- Added another CD of The Pork Duke Presents series. This
one is titled
Farmyard Frolics.
1 August 2005.
- Added a better scanned version of
The Bang-Up Reciter.
31 July 2005.
- Added the three CD set of
The Pork
Duke Presents Ribald Classics. These are reissues of the four
LP set of Ribald Classics. Most of the songs are derived
from the Mess Songs & Rhymes of the RAAF and some are redone
versions of Oscar Brand's Bawdy Songs & Backroom Ballads.
- Added a page for
Doity Records:
Vol. 1.
- Added the
The Definitive Hash Song Book by ZiPpY thanks to the generous
help of Ian Cumming who lent me ZiPpY's own copy.
- Added the May 2001 version of the
Half-Mind Hymnal by Paul "Flying Booger" Woodford.
30 July 2005. John Hedtke sang a version of "Violate Me in
Violate Time" and several other songs. I a very backlogged with
recordings and it will be a while before I can get these up.
27 July 2005. Added
John Meredith tape 30 to my collection. Sorry no previews as I
don't know what, if any, restrictions apply to this collection.
26 July 2005. Received the
SAE Songfest: A
Blast from the Past CD. This CD is pirated and is from a
complete different seller on ebay (a powerseller). It seems that
pirating college fraternity & sorority CDs is rampant on ebay.
25 July 2005.
- Added eight(?) CDs done by
Black
Greek Soundz. These CDs were also pirated just like the Alpha
Phi Alpha Song & Chants which I had purchase earlier.
-
Chants of Omega Psi Phi
-
Chants of Kappa Alpha Psi [CD 1]
-
Chants of Kappa Alpha Psi [CD 2]
-
Chants of Phi Beta Sigma
-
Songs and Chants of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
-
Songs and Chants of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
-
Songs and Chants of Sigma Gamma Rho
-
Songs and Chants of Zeta Phi Beta
- Added the
Lightnin' Wells Toasts & Bawdy Songs Compilation CD
20 July 2005. Have received permission to reissue the
mimeographed ca 1956
Delta Upsilon songbook from the University of Chicago.
17 July 2005.
- Received a copy of Songs We Learned at Mother's Knee ... and
other Lowly Joints yesterday.
- I now have songbooks:
- Fiend Book 2002 (Notes)
- Society of Old Bold Aviators Songbook 2001 (Notes)
- Society of Old Bold Aviators Songbook 2000 (Notes)
- Society of Old Bold Aviators Songbook 1999 (Notes)
- Society of Old Bold Aviators Songbook 1998 (Notes)
- 53rd NATO Tiger's Combat Songbook (Notes)
- WASP Songs (Notes)
- The SPUD Hymnal (2nd Edition 1992) (Notes)
- Untitled Songbook (From Reeves)
- Bull Durham Songs of SEA (Notes)
- Barracks Ballads by WC Ward (Notes)
- Bull Durham Songs of SACk (Notes)
- The Songs We Sang by Les Cleveland (Notes)
- I did a telephone interview with Ian Cumming. It will be
quite a while before I get the recordings up.
16 July 2005.
- Added more songbooks from the Lydia Fish
collection.
-
744th Combat Songbook (Notes)
-
The
Raven FAC 1990 Reunion Songbook (Notes)
-
18th TFS Blue Fox Song Book (Notes)
-
44 TFS Hymnal (Notes)
-
VT4 World Famous Rubber Ducks Hymnal (Notes)
-
The Downwinds DET WESTPAC (Notes)
-
121st Aviation Company 'Tiger Tunes' (Notes)
-
Songs of SEA, Other Places, Other Things with
Stag Bar
Supplement (Notes)
-
No Slack Him Book (Notes)
-
Songs of Saigon 1st Edition (Songs that Pacify) (Notes)
- Added
Alpha Phi Alpha Chants and Songs by Black Greek Soundz.
15 July 2005.
- Added song texts for
High Above An Ankle,
Down By The Old Mill Stream,
Birth Control and
Why Was He Born So Beautiful.
- Added these Vietnam era songbooks from the Lydia Fish
collection:
-
Satan's Angels Songbook (Notes)
-
101st Airborne Division Songbook (Notes)
-
The Crusader Hymnal (Notes)
-
Songs of the UTT (Notes)
-
12 TAC FTR WG Song Book (Notes)
-
Phantom Phlyers Sing Vietnam (Notes)
-
48th Assault Helicopter Company (Notes)
-
Cosmos Command Christmas Carols (Notes)
-
We're Here for Fun (Notes)
-
Songs of the Saigon Cosmos Command
(Notes)
12 July 2005.
- Did a telephone interview with Cliff A.
Quite a while before can I get this up.
- Did a telephone interview with Andy C.
11 July 2005. Did a telephone interview with Sara
& Mendard J.
10 July 2005.
- Added the
1991-92
Bat Songs 44 TFS Songbook and the
43 TFS Song Book. Both of these are courtesy of Paul "Flying
Booger" Woodford.
- Received a copy of Jack Sing by Sharky Ward (1990).
8 July 2005. Added the latest, 18 May 2005,
hash songbook from
www.half-mind.com.
7 July 2005. Did a telephone interview with
Eloise.
4 July 2005.
- Finished Lydia Fish's military songbook CD. I will be
publicly issuing the songbooks from this collection as time permits.
- Added the
1986 Inter-hash Song Book and the 2000 edition of
Hash Songs: A Selection of Hazukashii's Favorites.
- Added the untitled
FAETUPAC Song Book (ca 1955).
24 Jun 2005. Added the CD
Temporarily Disconnected it contains a version of
Charming Betsy with one bawdy verse.
19 Jun 2005. Finally got the songs sung by Mu-Sick on 26
March on the site. These songs include:
By The Light Of The Flickering Match,
Diamond Lilly,
Here's To The Breezes,
Here's To The Girls Who Say They Will,
I've Got AIDS But I'm Not A Homosexual,
Little Gommez,
My First Time Ever,
Nellie Hawkins,
Peg Of My Heart,
Put Your Thighs On My Shoulder,
Side By Side,
Sun Stroke,
Syphilis And Varicose Veins,
The Doggies Meeting,
The Highland Tinker and
The Liquor Was Spilt On The Bar-room Floor.
18 Jun 2005. Added several texts:
We Want Her Panties,
Oh, Don't Say No,
The Shoemaker Named Schumann,
Did You Ever See Such a Funny Thing Before?,
We Gave Them a Bloody Good Hiding,
I'm Having a Bit Tonight and
My Gal Salome.
16 Jun 2005.
- Added the 1st edition of
Snatches & Lays and
The Hell of the Good.
- Added text to
"Fight, Fight, Fight for Palestine".
3 Jun 2005.
- Did interview with David K. about the song
"Fight, Fight, Fight for Palestine".
- Received recordings by
Herbert Halpert recorded at Indiana University in 1941-42.
These are located in the Archive of Traditional Music at IU.
2 Jun 2005. Compare the Frisky Songster below with these
other items with similar titles:
The New Frisky Songster and
The Frisky Songster (8pgs).
1 Jun 2005.
- Added
The Frisky Songster (1802 edition).
- Added text of
"Poor
Lillian" compare this version with Oscar Brand's version titled
"Her Name Was Lil".
31 May 2005. Received a copy of Stovepipe Serenade
318 FIS (Revised 1956 edition).
28 May 2005.
- Added
An Amphibious Anthology of Rare Hymns (3rd Edition).
- Added fragments of the 13 Oct 1990
Raven's reunion.
27 May 2005.
- Added fragments of
RAAF Pilots in Amberley, Australia in 1979.
- Added fragments of seven versions of
What the Captain Means.
24 May 2005. Added
Les Cleveland tape recording and individual songs from that
recording.
20 May 2005. Added Rolf Harris' She'll Be Right
CD.
18 May 2005. Added the 1880s reprint of the 1661
An Antidote Against Melancholy.
17 May 2005. Added the text of several songs on Patrick
Sky's Songs that Made America Famous including
The Pope,
Luang Prabang,
Ramblin' Hunchback and
Fight for Liberation.
16 May 2005.
- Added text to the songs "Head" and
"Nine Inch Will Please A Lady".
- Added the non-bawdy songbook
With the
Diggers 1914-1918.
This contains many clean and cleaned-up military songs. Useful
for reference.
14 May 2005. Children's songs sung by
Betsy Huhn are up.
10 May 2005. Did a telephone interview with Betsy Huhn.
She sang "Sam, Sam the Lavatory Man" and other scouting songs.
9 May 2005. Received the double CD
Some People Are On
The Pitch: Songs From Football's Archives. This contains some
non-bawdy examples of soccer songs -- some of which have bawdy variants.
8 May 2005. Placed up text of Micca Paterson's
Sambo / Asshole Rules the Navy.
7 May 2005. Interviewed
Joe
Offer about "Swinging on the Outhouse Door". He knows this song
as a little ditty which would be used to fill the pauses between songs.
29 Apr 2005. I placed up preview mp3s for Seamus
Kennedy's By
Popular Demand, Vol.2. This CD contains versions of the bawdy
songs:
Sarah, Sarah Sitting In A Shoeshine Shop and The
Little Fly.
28 Apr 2005. Did an interview with
Sarah Curry.
She sang several unusual songs:
Aggie Fight Song,
Hey, Lahdee Lee, Hey, Lahdee Low,
Leland Stanford Junior Farm,
No Hiding Place Down There and
The Salvation Army Song.
26 Apr 2005. Did an interview with
Bob Coltman.
He sang two unusual songs:
Time From Ten To One and
Two Little Gnats.
23 Apr 2005. Did an interview with
Jim Griffith who sang a few songs including
Leland Stanford Junior Farm
and
The Fireman's Band.
21 Apr 2005. Did an four interviews about
The Five Constipated Men of the Bible (410KB).
- Interviewed Paul Stamler. His
version.
- Interviewed Cassie R. Her
version.
- Interviewed John R. (Not related to the above Cassie R.) His
version.
- Interviewed
Patricia A. Wells.
Her
complete version.
18 Apr 2005. Did an interview with an
anonymous woman. She sang a few unusual songs including:
Be-boppin' Jesus,
Jesus Was A Teenager Too and
Jesus Will Save You.
14 Apr 2005.
- Text up for
Beetles Don't Decay as sung by Charlie Noble.
- I have permission to issue a digital copy of Legman's 1990
International Erotic Songs Bibliography.
- Placed up field recordings of an
anonymous female sorority member.
- Added a text for
King of the Goddamned Isles as recited by Vaughan Hully
10 Apr 2005. Placed up cadences done by an
David S. 62 year old man who was
in the airborne.
3-9 Apr 2005. In Buffalo, NY to visit
Lydia Fish.
I am scanning Lydia's songbook collection of 65 songbooks primarily from
the Vietnam era or later.
2 Apr 2005. Interviewed
Jim S.
while at the graduate student conference. I edited this and
presented the songs to some of the graduate students there as an example
of the ease with which informants can be found and the recordings can be
shared.
1-2 Apr 2005.
- Graduate student conference. My goal is to at least
interest one student at the conference in bawdy folklore.
I will try different tacks -- student folklore, women's studies
and military folklore.
- Purdue-IU rugby match and party.
31 Mar 2005. Traveling to Bloomington for the
Pushing the
Boundaries: Extreme Folklore graduate student conference
29 Mar 2005. Did a telephone interview with Bill
Getz editor of the two volume Wild Blue Yonder Air Force
Songbooks.
27 Mar 2005. Added transcriptions of part of the
Meredith / Willis collection courtesy of Warren Fahey. I am typing out
a few other parts of
this collection.
25 Mar 2005.
- It seems that Google is now
indexing the first 500KB of webpages instead of 100KB. This
means I can reformat some of my OCRed books on to fewer pages.
- Received two Merry Muses of Caledonia from an anonymous Scottish
collector. One is an openly (?) printed edition from
1905 (6.6MB) and the other is a complete copy of the infamous
"1827" edition (4.6MB).
- Added text to
The Pearl Christmas Annual 1881.
23 Mar 2005.
- Added John Valby's version
Big Ass Lil & Yukon Pete. Compare this with
Lil the Whore
and Eskimo Nell.
- Did a telephone interview with Ed Cray. I am trying to
understand the context of bawdy songs.
- Did a telephone interview with David S. He sang a double
time cadence of "Old King Cole" with a "Hi-dee, Hi-dee Christ
Almighty" chorus.
20 Mar 2005.
- Added the text to
Tie Me Kangaroo Down
Sport non-bawdy song by Rolf Harris.
- Added the bawdy recitation
The Bastard from the Bush.
19 Mar 2005.
- Added
If
It Ain't A Hit I'll Eat My... CD.
- Added
text fragments to Dick Jonas' first six CDs.
18 Mar 2005.
- Added text of
Tori Amos singing
Assholes Are Cheap Today.
- Received a copy of
Death Rattlers
(5.1MB) from an anonymous donor.
You know who you are...Thanks!
- Added text for
Dear Mom Your Son Is Dead from the
A Night at the Bar with the
Boys CD.
17 Mar 2005.
- Received 200+ pages of photocopies from The
Kinsey Institute for Sexual Research. I need to go through and
see exactly what I received as the material is not labeled.
- Did an interview with Page Stevens. This needs to be
edited.
16 Mar 2005. Added Oscar Brand's
The Best of the Worst and
Bawdy Songs Rides Again CDs.
15 Mar 2005.
- I did a short interview with an
anonymous Jewish man. He sang an unusual song English-Yiddish
song:
By The Shore Of Lake Sa-la-kus (238KB)
- Added text for the
Gathering of the Clan by Dyer-Bennett and the text for a non-bawdy
version of A Long
Strong Black Pudding.
14 Mar 2005.
- Added text for
One Eyed Reilly on the
Slippery When What!? CD. This
is derived from Guy Logsdon's The Whore House Bells Were Ringing.
- Added text for Patrick Sky's version of
Our Baby Died.
13 Mar 2005.
- Added song texts for three songs that use the tune
"Cornel Bogey's March":
Bullshit,
Hitler Has Only Got One Ball and
What Have You
Done To Me?
- I seem to have orphaned my 100KB song list pages.
This link should
keep the song list indexed in Google.
- I added the texts of Oscar Brand's
Wild Blue Yonder.
12 Mar 2005. Added text for
The Rotten Cocksucker's Ball as sung by The Clovers. This is a variant on
The Motherfucker's
Ball.
9 Mar 2005.
- I added the song texts of
Abortion,
Don't Cry Lady,
Shave 'em
Dry and
Uncle Bud.
- Added text to
The Guy Who Put the DIX in Dixie dialog found on an old 78 record
and the
What the Captain Means
(Vietnam Version) found on Dick Jonas' Boozin' Buddies CD.
7 Mar 2005. I placed up a text to
The Motherfucker's
Ball. If you sing this song, please send an email to
.
6 Mar 2005.
- Placed up
The Word
'Fuck' recitation. If you know who recorded this recitation,
please send me an email at
. Thanks!
- An anonymous Scottish erotica collector has sent me photocopies of
Poems, Ballads and Parodies (PDF
4.7MB) and Lyra Ebriosa (PDF
1.5MB).
- Placed up the song texts as sung by Vaughan Hully. These
include
Can't Get the Buggers Out,
Durex Is A Girl's Best Friend,
Auntie Mary Had A Canary,
I Have A Dog Whose Name Is Rover and
Mary From The Mountain Glen.
5 Mar 2005.
- Did an interview with an anonymous WWII fighter pilot.
- Placed up the
Lowry Field Song Book (4.3MB)
4 Mar 2005. Place up song text to
Uncle Bud. This song used to be common in the southern US but
rarely collected by folklorists and little talked about.
1 Mar 2005. Placed up the 1st edition of
Tommy's Tunes (7.6MB) by Nettleingham.
27 Feb 2005.
- Finally got up the anonymous female informant's
songs from 19 Feb. These songs include:
Drunk Last Night,
Her Mother Never Told Her,
Keeper Of The Eddistone Light,
Violate Me In Violet Time.
- Songs sung by Charlie Noble on 18 Feb are up including:
Gossport Nancy,
The Family Overhead,
The Intoxicated Rate,
The Lady Mechanic,
The Old Maid Stood By The Fire,
The Tattooed Lady [Version 1] and
The Tattooed Lady [Version 2].
- Songs & fragments sung by
Turok
are up.
26 Feb 2005.
- Did another interview with
Dennis "Mu-Sick" Gill.
It might take a while to get these songs up as I am backlogged with field
recordings that need to be edited.
- Found another version of
Napalm Sticks to Kids.
This version is found on Janus' Gravedigger CD.
- I found the creator of the
If I Only Had A
Dame song. This is by -itis and is found on their eatus CD.
- Abby Sale was able to get me
The Sexual Life Of The Camel through some nasty spam filters.
24 Feb 2005. Did an interview with
Geoff Grainger about the gestures for "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot".
20 Feb 2005.
- Placed up the
Odd Shaped Balls: 37 Saucy Rugby Songs
from the Hallmark label.
- Placed recordings from the
John Meredith / Rob Willis Collection.
19 Feb 2005.
- Did a telephone interview with a female Washington University graduate.
- Did another face to face interview with Ivy T.
18 Feb 2005.
- Did another interview with Charlie Noble.
- Did an interview with Turok.
13 Feb 2005. Added the 1776 edition of
The Frisky Songster (5MB PDF). Legman (1990) has this to say
about the book:
- The essential erotic folksong collection in English of the late 18th
century. (Compare: The Honest Fellow, 1790 and The New Frisky
Songster, 1794.) On the legal condemnations of this work see: G.
Chitty, A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law (1826 2d
edition) vol. 2:42-43.
12 Feb 2005.
- I received the
Ouch!! The Ultimate Rugby Song Collection CD. This is a reissue of
some of the songs from the
Stag Party In London
rugby LPs. This CD lists Siggy Jackson as the recorder of the original
recordings.
- Two childhood ditties sung by
Anonymous are up.
11 Feb 2005. Three more songs by Abby Sale are up:
Little Sally Racket (Haul 'em Away),
The Beggar Man and
We're Geyly Yet
6-11 Feb 2005. I am in Bloomington, Indiana to visit
the Kinsey Institute and the IU Folklore Archives to examine items which may
be useful for the publication of Larson's Countryside Folklore MS.
1 Feb 2005.
- The 61 songs & recitations done by
Vaughan Hully are up.
- The songs emailed to me by Abby Sale are up. They include
Liverpool Judies,
Maggie Lauder,
The Bonniest Lass,
The Derby Ram and
The Fireship.
30 Jan 2005.
- Did a two hour telephone interview with Vaughan
Hully. He sang many rugby songs from the mid to late 1960's.
- I received a few mp3s from Abby Sale.
27 Jan 2005.
- The songs sung by
Tom
Jones III on 24 Jan are up.
- I have updated my "all field recordings" archive. You can
download all 528 recordings at once
here (77MB).
25 Jan 2005. More songs sung by Abby Sale are up:
Duncan Gray,
The Bad Girl's Lament,
The Eer-i-e Canal,
The Vintner,
Yarmouth Town
24 Jan 2005.
- I placed up the text of
Frankie & Johnny as purportedly done by Gene Autry.
- I did another interview with
Tom Jones III. These were primarily children's song.
23 Jan 2005.
James H.
sung for me his version of
The Woodpecker Song. Although he said he learned it from a
commercial 8 track tape and that he had written a few verses himself, with his
singing I was able to confirm the tune used.
22 Jan 2005. The songs sung by
Ivy T. are up. Ivy is a former female rugby player and current
Hasher. She gives a fresh perspective on bawdy songs and the culture that
promotes the propagation of these songs.
20 Jan 2005. I placed up the text to
The Woodpecker Song.
This song is the predecessor of
The Pussy Cat Song.
19 Jan 2005. I have placed up the raw OCR to the
Rose
Registry broken up into 100KB pages so that it can be completely index
by Google. This bibliography in conjunction with the
Ashbee raw
OCR should have some use.
18 Jan 2005. I have most of the site back up. Please
report bad links & corrupt files.
15 Jan 2005. The website was down while I did a reinstall of
Red Hat & Plesk.
I lost the Bulletin Board. There was not much there anyway.
14 Jan 2005. I finished placing up the track listing from
the
Hitchcock recordings.
12 Jan 2005. I received a photocopy of A Collection of
Sea Songs and Ditties from the Stores of Dave E. Jones (PDF
1.8MB). c. 1928.
Legman (1990) says: "The editing of this collection of bawdy sea songs has
been attributed to Frank Shay. "
10 Jan 2005. I have placed up half of the list of the
Hitchcock recordings.
9 Jan 2005. I have received some recordings from Abby Sale.
He sent me:
Beggar Wench,
Lichtbob's Lassie,
The Old She-crab,
The Traveler.
8 Jan 2005. I placed up the track listing of the
Laycock field recordings from the Library of Congress. I am still
working on the
Hitchcock recording of college songs.
7 Jan 2005. I received the following field recordings:
- Hickerson-Hitchcock. Joe Hickerson, on October 19-20, 1963, recorded a variety of singers in an informal song session; the primary informant was Jim Hitchcock. This collection (LC-AFS 17022) is in the Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Hickerson-Laycock. Joe Hickerson recorded bawdy songs as sung by Don Laycock; this collection (LC-AFS 17023-24) is in the Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. See: Laycock.
The Best Bawdry.
6 Jan 2005. I did an interview with Ivy T. (aka Number 6). It
was a very on long interview with only a few songs so it will take a while
to get them up on the website.
4 Jan 2005.
- Received the
Castration of the Strawberry Roan from Abby Sale.
- I did a very short telephone interview with Tom Jones III. He
sang
Down By The Old Mill Stream.
2 Jan 2005.
- I added the The Fruity Bits
of Ivor Biggun songs which seem to be derived from or have become
traditional songs:
The Cockerel
Song and
I Have a Dog His Name is Rover.
- Added texts to
Deep Throat's songs. I have included a Buy Now link.
- Added two songs emailed to me by Abby Sale:
Johnson Girls
and
Kafoozalum.
1 Jan 2005.
- Added the texts to several songs and recitations as done by Fuk Stik:
Barcelona,
Head! Who Said Head?,
Hello Penis,
House of Ill Reputey,
Nancy Brown,
Nellie 'Awkins and
A Prayer.
- Added texts to Suddsuckin' Bigfoot & Enter the Gerbil songs:
Nipple on Her Titties,
Hash House Quartet,
Old Brown Cow,
A Little Bird,
Twenty Toes,
Hog Calling Time,
Where Were You?,
Sally In The Alley,
Pissonya,
Finally Shut Up,
Whip It Out,
Incest Time,
Hate to See You Go,
The Frenchman,
Engineer's Song,
Days of the Week,
Little Sexpot,
Rule Britannia,
Scrotum,
Rhode Island Red,
Love Me Tender,
Ring-a-dang-a-doo, She'll
Be Coming,
Held My Plonker,
Clint Meets Gay Caballero,
Jesus Saves,
Fuck Off,
Face Down Ass Up,
Damn Fine Guy,
How Much Beer? and
Jonestown.
29 Dec 2004.
- I revised the
Swing Low Sweet Chariot description and have included the optional
sound-gesture "spitting to lube up" before the masturbation. I learned this 15 Dec 2004 at Madam Yuk's
house on Waterman in Saint Louis but see footnote on the
Swing Low page.
- I have added many of the texts to
John Frushour's songs. I don't know why I didn't have them up sooner. I will try to get the rest of the song texts up in the next day or so.
27 Dec 2004. Added The Yellow Stream (PDF 5MB) by I.P. Standing.
26 Dec 2004. Add a link to the
Bawdy Chapbooks & Songsters bibliography compiled by Ed Cray. This page has been on drinkingsongs.net since its creation but I seem to have failed to link to it.
25 Dec 2004.
- I added the texts to the
www.grandfolkies.com children's songs.
- I have made extensive revisions to the
rugby,
hash &
college songbooks/recordings pages. I have added a
cowboy songs page.
- More songs emailed to me by
Abby Sale are on his page.
24 Dec 2004.
- I added the song "I Never Had Sex With That Woman" sung by Abby Sale and ©1998. Words by Stephen L. Suffet with second stanza by Ada Prill.
- I added a
Camping & Scouting Songbooks webpage. These songbook have mildly bawdy & scatological folklore.
- Added a
children's songbooks & recordings this page bawdy & scatological materials as learned in childhood.
23 Dec 2004. I added a
college songbook and recordings webpage that lists my meager collection of college songs.
22 Dec 2004.
- I added a
Hash House Harrier webpage that has my various hash recordings, songbooks and field collected material.
- I have revised the
Rugby Songbooks & Recordings page to include many more of the post-internet songbooks which I have picked up.
21 Dec 2004. I have added a
Rugby Songs / Songbooks page that lists my current collection of rugby songs, songbooks and other recordings.
19 Dec 2004.
- I have rearranged the bawdy songs
with music section. I have so many bawdy songs with music that the individual pages have become unwieldy. Hopefully the alphabetized way that I have done it allows for easier finding of your songs. Now I have to place up the alternate titles and link them to the primary entries.
- I have received
more recordings done by Abby Sale. I should get them up very quickly.
18 Dec 2004.
- I have placed up the
Dick Jonas Erosonic CDs. I also
placed up the In Country and
Dos Gringos CDs.
- Taking a cue from Rainer Otter, I have placed up a
Air Force Songs webpage which lists my squadron songbooks, CDs and books.
- Abby Sale has sent me some
better quality recordings than the ones that I have made over the phone.
17 Dec 2004. Received 12 CDs from Erosonic. I should have them online with preview mp3s in a day or so.
15 Dec 2004. I received the 17th Wild Weasel Songbook courtesy of Jonathan L. Thanks Jonathan!
14 Dec 2004. Added a few more songs from the Digital Tradition database:
Coming 'Round the Mountain,
Derby Ram,
Dirty Old Man,
Kafoozalum,
Five Take Two,
The First Thing
13 Dec 2004.
- I did a telephone interview with an
anonymous
informant. He sung some unusual ditties & recitations:
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls,
Mrs. Simpson Pinched Our King,
Goldwater In '64,
Khrushchev The Baldheaded Communist,
Scamp Sandwiches.
- I added the following traditional bawdy songs from the the digital tradition database:
The Chisholm Trail,
A Dandy for Nineteen Years Old,
Blinded By Shit,
Girl I Left Behind Me (Parody),
The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing,
Madeline Schmidt,
MIT Drinking Song,
Peter Pulling Blues,
Red Light Saloon 2,
Times is Hard (Shithouse),
The Verger,
Pioneers,
When This Bloody War is Over.
12 Dec 2004. I converted the GIFs to PNG in the
music section of the website to save a little download time.
11 Dec 2004.
- I received The Apples of Eden from Guy Logsdon. Thanks Guy.
- I added the
SOBA-2002 cd.
10 Dec 2004.
- I added several songs with music & midi from the digital tradition database:
Abdul El Bulbul, Emir!,
A-Creepin' and a-Crawlin',
Adam Catched Eve (round),
All the World is Desolation,
Boring for Oil,
Carolina,
Every Year,
I Need a Sheep,
In that Little Pink Nightie,
John Brown's Penis, The Ancient and Old Irish Condom,
Balls of O'Leary,
The Castration of the Strawberry Roan,
The Farting Contest,
The Finest Fucking Family,
The Great Wheel,
The Dying Harlot (Three Versions),
Vanessa Picklegin and
Yogi Bear Song.
- I received the 14 pages of the bawdy songs folder found in the Robert Tallant archive (See here:
http://nutrias.org/~nopl/mss/tallant.htm ). This folder has many bawdy songs which I have not seen before and seem to be primarily from African-American informants in New Orleans, Louisiana.
9 Dec 2004.
- I added the CDs done by
Jonathan Myer of Vietnam songs. He was a Forward Air Controller (FAC).
- I did a telephone interview with
Charlie Noble. He sang a few rare songs or songs with variant tunes:
All The World Is Desolation,
Beatles Don't Decay,
If I Had The Wings Of An Angel and
Last Night Our Baby Died
8 Dec 2004. I added
Songs That Made America Famous by Patrick Sky. Sky seems to have adapted the traditional "My Baby Died" song for his version of the same title.
7 Dec 2004. I did another field recording of
Hildebrand. He sang me some uncommon songs:
Half Past One (127KB),
My Name Is Poncho Via I Got The Gonorrhea (62KB),
Old Jizzum Trail (135KB),
Up In The Lehigh Valley (89KB)
5 Dec 2004.
- I added the older texts to the
My Baby Died description.
- I made a compressed file of all my
field recordings (60MB).
4 Dec 2004. Did a field recording of
Hildebrand. He sang two versions of "My Baby Died" and a version of "The Goddamned Dutch"
3 Dec 2004.
- I added the song
My Baby Died to the categorized songs section. For a long time I doubted this was a folksong but it seems to have had some currency.
- I have added
The Moose Song as sung by Abby Sale to the categorized songs section.
29 Nov 2004. I did a telephone interview with
Ian Murphy. He sang
Oh, Sir Jasper (Do Not Touch Me) and a fragment of
Thrashing Machine [aka Our Little Nell].
27 Nov 2004. I have placed up the song-sheet of the LP
Stag Party In London Vol.2.
26 Nov 2004. I did a telephone interview with
Bud Weiss. He sang "The Castration of the Strawberry Roan" and a very early version of "Walking Down Canal Street" (1946-7).
25 Nov 2004. I added the
17 Rowdy Rugby Songs CD. This is the predecessor to the
Outrageous Rugby Songs CD.
23 Nov 2004. I have added the CDs of
Warren Fahey. If you like his CDs, you can purchase them directly from him.
18 Nov 2004.
- I have heard back from James P. Leary. He seems a knowledgeable person. We may be able to help each other.
- I received the Songs of SEA, Other Places, Other Things (With
Stag Bar Supplement). This undated (ca 1969), 8x11 songbook bound in wraps has no listed publisher, editor or place of publication -- though you could order more from PO BOX KK, in Del Rio, Texas.
17 Nov 2004.
- I have been tracking down several other MS items of interest .
- I am requesting three hours of recordings from the Library of Congress Folksong Archives. The Donald Laycock recordings (AFS 17,023-17,024) and the Jim Hitchcock recording (AFS 17,022).
- I have emailed James P. Leary and Cathy Preston. Both of these folklorists have a continuing interest in bawdry.
16 Nov 2004.
I have requested a copy of the bawdy songs folder found in the Robert Tallant archive (See here:
http://nutrias.org/~nopl/mss/tallant.htm ). This folder may have an unusual selection of bawdry as the collector is from Louisiana.
14 Nov 2004.
- I did a telephone interview with Abby Sale. He sang "The Lady In Red" again and a version of "Sam Hall".
- I have placed up a webpage of the
1883-97 bawdy broadsides. I also placed up a PDF of the
broadsides (29MB) and of the complete
full page scans (29MB) of ledger book.
13 Nov 2004.
- I have placed up the 109 songs sung to me by
Little Head (aka Shut Yer Manhole). Sorry it took so long Little Head.
- I did a telephone interview with
Charlie Noble. He sang two rare songs:
The Old Maid Stood By The Fire and
Anthony Claire.
11 Nov 2004. I have placed up the text of the
Tell It To The Marines LP. Thirty second preview mp3s as my time permits.
10 Nov 2004.
- I received the Bobby Horton CD with John Harroldson on it. The incomplete bowdlerized version is, as far as I know, only the second time that this song has been recorded.
- I also received Oscar Brand's Tell it to the Marines LP.
9 Nov 2004.
- I received The Pearl Christmas Annual 1881 from Ed Cray.
- I received "College Songs That Are Unprinted (For Obvious Reasons)" term paper written by Sheryl Goldstone in ca 1935.
- I received Mess Hall Songs & Rhymes of the RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force). My copy is lacking three pages. I have emailed to see if the pages are missing in the original.
7 Nov 2004.
- I did a telephone interview with Abby Sale. He sang rare song: "The Lady In Red".
- I finished scanning at 600dpi 8bit greyscale the bawdy manuscript ledger-book that has bawdy broadsides.
4 Nov 2004. I received permission to do research at the Kinsey Institute for Sexual Research. I will be going to Bloomington, Indiana February 7-11.
1 Nov 2004. Today I received The Blackthorn Bible: Official Songbook of Blackthorn RFC. Plagarism (sic) Press: 1st Edition 1975. This songbook published in Philadelphia notable contains 30 verses for the song "The Wild West Show". It has the song "Our Baby Died Last Night" of which a version is found
here.
30 Oct 2004. I placed up PDFs of the two
35th Tactical Fighter Wing songbooks. There is no OCR as my time is being spent on the Larson MSS.
29 Oct 2004.
- I am trying to get permission to research at the Kinsey Institute. I need have access to the Larson MSS which are deposited there because, reportedly, they provide differing readings of the same songs as the manuscripts which were deposited at the LOC.
- I received two 35th Tactical Fighter Wing songbooks. Both date from ~1968.
28 Oct 2004. I have received a practical go-ahead to publish the Larson MSS. These three manuscripts were deposited in the Library of Congress Folklore Archive.
26 Oct 2004.
- I received the 1st edition of The Fleet Air Arm Song Book.
- I received a copy of Richard A. Reuss' master's thesis. This thesis is the only scholarly work to seriously deal with college folksongs including the bawdy ones.
24 Oct 2004. Received the 1902
Forbidden Books Roth reprint OCR as done by Sheryl Straight.
20 Oct 2004. I have been working on scanning Rose's
Register of Erotic Books.
17 Oct 2004. I have placed up the songs sung by
Freddy K.
15 Oct 2004. I placed up the raw OCR output for the
first volume of Ashbee. The primary problem with the text is that the titles and German text are illegible due to the unusual fonts used. I will supplement the Ashbee bibliographies with Rose's
Register.
14 Oct 2004. I have finished scanning the three volume Ashbee bibliographies.
11 Oct 2004.
Micca Patterson sent me an email of the song
Sambo Was A Lazy Coon / Asshole Rules The Navy
10 Oct 2004. I did a telephone interview with
Freddy K. He sung the distinctively Canadian song North Atlantic Squadron. I am backlogged with Little Head's recordings and it may be a while before I get time to cut up the songs on this recording.
9 Oct 2004.
- I did a three and a half hour interview with
Shut Yer Manhole (aka Little Head). It will take a while to cut up the songs that he sung me. Thanks
Little Head.
- I placed up the two songs from Tom Kissedher:
My Name Is Ben Johnson, The Cow Kicked Nelly In The Belly
6 Oct 2004. I received two recordings from
Tom Kissedher. I will add these recordings and the text to them in a few days.
5 Oct 2004. I have started scanning Ashbee's 3vol.
Bibliography of Prohibited Books. I will issue this as raw OCR and let it be indexed by Google. This may have some use for online researchers.
4 Oct 2004. Added Facetia Americana (600dpi PDF). The booklet has "1601" by Twain and Eugene Field's "The French Crisis".
30 Sept 2004. Added the CD
Listen to the Banned.
28 Sept 2004. I did a telephone interview with
Daniel Talsky. He sang the
Diarrhea Song
and
I'm Going To Eat Some Worms. Both these songs are new to my collection. Thanks Daniel.
27 Sept 2004. I called Germany and did an interview with
Alan Moorhouse. He sang
Lady of the Manor and
I Don't Want to Join the Army.
22 Sept 2004. Two collections of bawdy ephemera from WWII are now available in by
Online Books section.
19 Sept 2004.
- Updated the
Peri-Periwinkle song with notes & texts provided by Murray Shoolbraid. This song is ultimately derived from a bawdy ditty collected by Robert Burns: "The Bob of Dunblane".
- I finally added the songs sung by
Murray Shoolbraid. Unusual songs include:
Keyhole In The Door,
Tam Booie,
The Great Wheel and
The Verger. Murray sorry for the delay in placing up the songs. The quality is not as good as I expected.
18 Sept 2004.
- Talked with the widow of a folklore professor about issuing her husband's master's thesis.
- I issued the 1825 Tavern Anecdotes (PDF ??MB) from my digital archives. This book gives a snapshot of the clubs & taverns during the Regency in London. I used this in my research into drinking songs. If anyone has an interest in OCRing the text, I can provide 400dpi greyscale TIFFs.
14 Sept 2004. I have converted to black & white some of the PDF found in the my online library. The
Gentleman's Bottle Companion was originally greyscale at 300dpi. It is now 600dpi black & white. I will convert a few of the other large PDFs to black and white saving disk space and download time.
12 Sept 2004. I acquired the book More Snatches and Lays.
This book is a revised & expanded version of Snatches and Lays.
10 Sept 2004.
- Added the
Abby Sale field recording page. Text of the songs to follow.
- I received the
Salty Dick's Uncensored Sailor Songs CD. This is the ONLY recording of authentic sailor songs. Text of the songs to follow. You should buy a copy.
8 Sept 2004. I received the third packet from the University of Indiana Archives. It contained the "Warren Devine" manuscript of bawdy college songs and appears to be photocopy of a copy.
6 Sept 2004. I scanned in the 106 pages of research notes on "The Wild West Show" collected by Richard Reuss and deposited in the University of Indiana Archives. Ed Cray suggests that this material would make a wonderful article and has encouraged me to write one.
4 Sept 2004. I received two of three envelopes from the University of Indiana Archives. One of the envelopes contains "The Wild West Show" research notes.
3 Sept 2004. The Kristen R. Walker, Assistant Archivist at the University of Indiana, has agreed to send me photocopies of a few folders of research notes done by Richard Reuss on "The Hamburg Show" and a few other items that may be interestiug.
1 Sept 2004.
- I did a telephone interview with John Frushour. He sung the songs "Careless Love" & "The Fort Benning Motto".
- Murray Shoolbraid has identified the "Peri-Periwinkle" song as derived from a parody of "Jessie, The Flower of Dunblane." The song "Jessie, The Flower of Dumblane" is a cleaned up version of
31 August 2004.
- I revised my
Immortalia bibliography. I now name The Rockmay Press of Tokyo, Japan as the publisher of the Arthur MacKay edited "Karman Society" edition of
Immortalia.
- Did a telephone interview with Murray Shoolbraid
30 August 2004.
- I have produced a 400dpi 1852 United Empire Minstrel (8.5MB). The pages have some stray dots & hairs. I will clean them up as I have time.
- Abby Sale has made available a few recordings of uncommon songs:
Appleknocker,
Tit Punctured By A Spoke and
Vanessa Picklegin.
- I am scanning Choyce Drollery edited by Ebsworth. This will be released as a 600dpi PDF and passed on the David Keinman to be processed into text.
29 August 2004.
- Added PDF version of the Merry Songs & Ballads Vol 1 (4MB), Vol 2 (3.8MB), Vol 3 (4MB), Vol 4 (3.8MB) & Vol 5 (3.8MB) all as 300dpi PDFs.
- I found the original scans of the 1927 Merry Muses of Caledonia pirated reprint of the 1911 McNaught edition. I have issued this as a 400dpi PDF (3.5MB).
24 August 2004. I have been working on images of the non-bawdy
United Empire Minstrel. This Orange Songster has been promised to someone on the Ballad-L list. I will issue a PDF of the songster later.
18 August 2004. I did a face to face interview with Richard Krause. He recited two of his favorite poems:
He Who Writes On Shithouse Walls and
When I Am Dead And In My Grave.
17 August 2004.
- I released to the ballad-l list the Gordon 'Inferno' Collection OCR.
- I asked the ballad-l list if there was anyone who wanted to OCR the Farmer 5vol. Merry Ballads and Songs Before 1800.
- Did a field recording of
John Frushour
singing an untitled children's song that has a chorus that goes "Her Titty Was Punctured By A Spoke".
16 August 2004. I have news that the CD that I produced for a bawdy songs session hosted by Ed Cray was well received and went "like wildfire". So far no one who received the CD has contacted me.
15 August 2004. I have placed up the songs sung to me on by
Mrs. T. Uncommon songs sung include:
North Atlantic Squadron (47KB),
Maggie Maggie May (31KB),
Life Is Full Of Disappointments (174KB),
Screwguns (310KB),
They're Moving Father's Bones To Build A Sewer (117KB),
If I Were A Merry Maid (831KB),
D-Day Dodgers (1120KB),
Glory Glory What Of A Hell Of A Way To Die (278KB), Rickie-dan-doo (694KB),
10 August 2004. I did a two hour telephone interview with a woman in the Canadian Naval Reserves. Mrs. T. sung some unusual songs for me. I will try to break them up and have them online in a few days.
7 August 2004. Created a
non-bawdy songbooks section of my website. This allows me a place to put non-bawdy OCR like the following JAFL articles:
1911. Odum, Howard W. "Folk-Song and Folk-Poetry as found in the Secular Songs of the Southern Negroes," in:
Journal of American Folklore, (1911), pp. 255-94 and 351-96. Legman in his introduction of Randolph's "Unprintable" collection mentions this Odum article as worthy of being reissued.
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Part 1.
Zipped html (34KB).
PDF version (188KB).
Part 2.
Zipped html (147KB).
PDF version (242KB).
1912-15. Perrow, E. C. "Songs and Rhymes from the South".
Journal of American Folklore 25:137-155; also (1913) 26:123-173 ; and (1915) 28:129-190.
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Part 1.
Zipped html (286KB).
PDF version (127KB).
Part 2.
Zipped html (1153KB).
PDF version (316KB).
Part 3.
Zipped html (522KB).
PDF version (293KB).
Important collection of Negro folksongs, basically expurgated, but offering valuable evidence and traces. Legmans says that this "collection should be collected and reprinted in book form".
4 August 2004.
- I finished the third and final part of "The Songs of the South" articles which were published in the Journal of American Folk-lore 1912-15.
- Finished OCRing Howard W. Odum's "Folk-Song and Folk-Poetry of Southern Negros. Part 1" originally published in the 1911 Journal of American Folk-lore.
3 August 2004.
- I did an interview with David Carter. He did a recitation of the
Walking Down Canal Street learned in 1966 in Brooklyn, NY.
- I OCRed the book
The "Wrecks". The texts of this book are primarily from
Immortalia but there is about 25% new or different material.
- Finished OCRing two parts of the three part "The Songs from the South" articles by Peerow articles originally published in the JAFL from 1912-15.
- I emailed the Canberra War Memorial to request a photocopy of an Australia songbook from 1942.
- I received a call from Paul Smith formerly of Sheffield who is now in New Foundland that has a large collection of Xerox-lore. We exchanged email addresses. Perhaps we can trade rare ephemera.
2 August 2004. I have been reading Randolph's
Roll Me In Your Arms and
Blow Out The Candle two volume set of "Unpublishable" songs from the Ozarks. Legman's introduction to the lists several people who have important ephemera collection of Xerox-lore. I called all the Paul Smith's in New Foundland.
1 August 2004. I added links to the
Gordon 'Inferno' Collection HTML page (355KB), the
zipped version (85KB) of that page and a PDF version of the the
page images (13.5MB). Please note that the typescript of the manuscripts in the "Inferno" is itself incomplete.
30 July 2004. I contacted
Deborah Schifferli the wife of gentleman who used to sing "Hanna My Delta Gamma". She sung a fragment of this song and confirmed the tune used.
28 July 2004. I spent time "collating" the 'Inferno' Collection by creating hyperlinks from the Index to the actual texts. I have found that one text, #249, is missing from my HTML version.
27 July 2004.
- I have finished OCRing the
Gordon "Inferno" Collection. I don't know if I can issue this collection on drinkingsongs.net. I will need to contact the Library of Congress to ask what restrictions, if any, are on the collection.
- I have placed up the mp3s and text, courtesy Michael Brown in NZ, of the 45 record
The I's Reunion Record. This record gives a New Zealand perspective on rugby and a Kiwi spin to the bawdy songs. Unusual songs on the record are
Dan, Dan The Lavatory Man and
Who Is Sylvia?
26 July 2004. I am producing a CD of bawdy field recordings from my collection to be distributed at the NY bawdy songs session by Ed Cray.
25 July 2004. I finished scanning the Gordon "Inferno" Collection typescript at 600dpi. I have made a PDF of the scans for private reference. I suspect that some of the pages are missing and that the typescript was incompletely copied from the manuscript letters.
23 July 2004. Received a copy of the Gordon "Inferno" Collection typescript courtesy Abby Sale. I will by scanning in this important collection and making a PDF of the collection but not issuing it to the net because of uncertain copyright issues.
17 July 2004. Did a telephone interview with an anonymous informant calling from Australia. He sang the following songs:
Ching-Chung Chinaman (166KB),
My Cross-eyed Girl (133KB),
Sandy-O (45KB),
Sydney Road
(150KB).
16 July 2004. I have decided to type out the
bawdy broadside-manuscript ledger book that I own. Hopefully this ledger book will go to the Library of Congress for restoration and preservation.
12 July 2004. I processed the songs sung to me by
R.G. "Sandy" Humphrey. He sang the following songs:
Green Stamps [Ay Ay Ay Ay] (39KB),
Hairs On Her Dicky Die Doe (101KB),
Here's To The Boys That Brew The Beer (90KB),
Roll You Leg Over (38KB),
The Ball Of Kerrymoor (71KB) and
The Sexual Life Of The Camel (143KB)
11 July 2004. Typed out the text of a few songs from
The Earthy Side LP:
Funiculi, Funicula,
Old Dan Tucker,
Yankee Doodle,
Twenty Toes,
Love Song.
9 July 2004. I did a field recording of
Ivan Burger singing the round
Adam Caught Eve By The Furbelow.
7 July 2004. I have been informed by Dr. Scheiner that not all 1st Editions of
The Horn Book have the Warren's Olde Style watermark.
5 July 2004. Correspondence with Dr. Scheiner has led me to believe that the reduced 4to that Legman attributes to "Nathan Young and Robert Sterling" was actually done by Samuel Roth. This is because Roth consistently used red construction paper on his non-bawdy Farrar titles.
3 July 2004. Made a field recording of
R.G. "Sandy" Humphrey. I am currently backlogged with processing field recordings and don't know when I will get a chance to break it up into individual songs.
1 July 2004. Received the G. Legman reduced 4to that he attributes to Nathan Young and Robert Sterling in Philadelphia. I have further revised my
Immortalia bibliography.
27 June 2004. Received five emails with mp3 attachments from
Tom Kissedher (pseud.) a rugby player in the Netherlands.
26 June 2004. I did a field recording of Mark A Mandel singing
Thais.
25 June 2004. I received the Gets On Everyone's Nerves CD by Seamus Kennedy that has a version of the song "The Music Man".
24 June 2004. Some responses have come in about other University Books published books in 1964 and, so far, none of the other three books tested have watermarks.
20 June 2004. While reading Legman's 1964 The Horn Book I discovered the Warren's Olde Style watermark in the paper. This is the same watermark that is found in the 1st edition of
Immortalia. I passed this info on to Dr. Cliff Scheiner a Brooklyn, NY erotica dealer. We are currently testing to see if other books published by University Books were published with this watermark.
12 June 2004. I have further revised my
Immortalia bibliography and have included many more photos of typographical errors and other variations.
10 June 2004. I did a field recording of "The Castration of the Strawberry Roan" learned ~1960 and a poem titled "The Ledger Book".
9 June 2004. Added
a PDF version of another Merry Muses "1827" Hotten edition. This version is from a book that has one torn leaf and is lacking most of pgs. 79/80
8 June 2004. I have received a few new Immortalia
and have revised
my descriptions of the various printings of this book.
6 June 2004. I did a "field recording" of
Larry Haffner singing the song Wild West Show.
29 May 2004. I have added PDF versions of Anecdota Americana I and II, my 1905-07 typescript and several other manuscripts. Please
see here.
28 May 2004. Copyright concerns have caused me to disable downloads. I am purchasing software to deal with this worry.
25 May 2004. I placed up PDF version of The Festival of Love and
The Bang Up Reciter. Download copies
here. If you are interested in OCRing these, please email me at
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23 May 2004. The
Hash Songs double cassette sung by Dennis "Mu-Sick" Gill is (mostly) online.
21 May 2004. I did a phone interview with Sky Queen this conversation and the two songs he sung me are
online here.
20 May 2004. DrinkingSongs.net is back online. I have added several field recording CDs from Border City Records:
Commando Sing,
FAC songs from SEA,
SOBA 2000,
SOBA 2001,
Songs of SAC/SEA,
Songs from Korat HTAFB
17-19 May 2004.
- DrinkingSongs.net was offline due what appears to be a rather simple DOS attack. I have modified the Apache server to prevent this type of DOS.
I am looking for someone to MIRROR this website. If interested, I will setup
a rsync server so that you can easily mirror this website without the bandwidth consideration of other methods.
- I did another interview with Tom "Fuc Stik" Tarka over the phone. I am a bit busy and don't know when I will be able to process this conversation.
16 May 2004.
- I placed up the songs of
Sudsuckin' Bigfoot & Enter the Gerbil, Gypsies in the Palace HHH. These mp3s are freely distributable and can be put on local Hash websites.
- I placed up the text to
Irian Jaya,
All Australians Born Illegitimate,
Jonestown.
15 May 2004.
- I did another phone interview with Sudsuckin' Bigfoot and Enter the Gerbil, Gypsies in the Palace HHH. I hope to have those songs processed and available for download in a couple of days.
- I placed up more categorized songs w/ texts: The Girls From Campus Hall,
Monks of St. Bernard,
One-eyed Trouser Snake.
13 May 2004. I placed up more categorized songs: Casey Jones,
Drive It On, Happy Birthday [Rude Version],
Happy Birthday [Rude Version - different text & tune].
12 May 2004.
- Placed a
forum (aka bulletin board) up for the posting of hash, rugby and other traditional bawdy songs -- or for just regular discussion.
- I made the embedded sound files to NOT autostart. This means that you can browse my website while at work without the fear of your boss HEARING.
- I added text to a few more songs sung by Fuk Stik:
Fuck A Duck,
Have You Got A Hard On (It's Rising Now),
Have You Got A Hard On (So Suck Me Off), God Bless My,
Charlotte The Harlot Lay Dying.
10 May 2004. I added text to a few new songs sung by Tom "Fuk Stik" Tarka:
The Lady In Red,
Peri-Periwinkle Song,
A Frenchman Went To The Lavatory,
The Doggies' Meeting.
9 May 2004. I have added the
songs sung by Tom "Fuk Stik" Tarka to the field recording subsection of the website. I will add the TEXT of the songs he sung in a day or two.
7 May 2004.
- I converted via OCR the rare book
The Book of a Thousand Laughs. Those that want a pdf version, this is
also available.
- I did a four hour phone "interview" with Avocado Tom a long time hasher. He sung many unusual songs.
5 May 2004.
- Added the OCR output for
The Rakish Rhymer. This book from 1917 reprints some early English music hall songs (1820-1850) including a predecessor of "Barnacle Bill the Sailor".
- Added "field recording" of Hamish Henderson singing
The Ballad of King Faruk. I have edited the recording so the commentary is after the song.
4 May 2004. Placed up categorized songs:
Who is Sylvia?,
Ta Ra Ra Boom Dee Ay,
Irish French Letter,
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum,
Darkie's Sunday School.
2 May 2004. Placed up categorized songs:
Will You Marry Me?,
Life Presents A Dismal Picture,
The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo,
Can You Walk A Little Way With It In?,
The Alphabet (aka Anthony Roily),
Please Don't Burn The Shithouse Down,
Christopher Robin,
Eskimo Nell,
Mademoiselle From Armentieres,
Three German Officers,
Darkie's Sunday School,
Roger of Kildare,
A Soldier and a Sailor,
Irish French Letter.
29 April 2004. I placed up three songs
sung by Sandy Paton:
Strawberry Whore,
Fascinating Bitch, and
One-Balled Reily.
27 April 2004.
- I have recorded a few
new hash songs including As I Was Walking,
A Soldier I Will Be, Follow the Band,
Hold It In Your Hand,
Hymn, Fuck Him,
Lassie with Black Assie,
No One Wants to Fuck Grandma,
Poetry,
S&M Man,
The Music Man,
With An F,
Would You Like a Finger?
- I fixed the website search engine. Sorry for the inconvenience.
25 April 2004. Placed these categorized songs up:
Old Grey Bustle,
Bye Bye Blackbird,
They Called The Bastard Stephen, Large Balls,
Auntie Mary,
Sister Grace,
M.O.T.H.E.R,
Rajah of Astrakhan,
Lady Jane,
Sir Jasper,
Alluette, One Tit Malone,
Working Down the Sewer,
John Thomas,
We Are The Pi Phi's,
Hanna My Delta Gamma, Mary Anne Burns,
Colonel McBride's Raiders,
Dead Whore,
Born Dead,
Captain Kidd,
Honey Cadence,
Jody Cadence and
How I Hate Your Fucking Face.
24 April 2004.
- Google seems to have re-indexed drinkingsongs.net. The website search is working again.
- I have placed several categorized songs up:
Strawberry Roan,
Chistifo Columbo,
Cocaine Bill,
Fireman's Song,
Leprosy,
'Skeeter,
Three Jelly Fish,
Red Flag,
Some Die of Drinking Whiskey and the
Wee Wee Song
23 April 2004.
- Placed the
Come On Lads by the Sods Opera page up. This good CD from England has interesting variants of traditional bawdy songs.
- Placed several categorized song pages up:
Balls Hang Low?,
End of Month,
I Went To Seoul,
Necrophiliac Song,
Ports of Call,
Red Wing,
The Ovaltine Song,
Whatawank and
Yankee Doodle.
19 April 2004. Put
Get You Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me CD online along with full texts.
18 April 2004.
- I have placed texts to Alan Lomax's
Songs of Seduction CD which issues field recordings done by Lomax in the 1950's in England, Scotland and Ireland.
- I have placed the texts to
The Art of the Bawdy Song online.
- I have placed texts up for a few of the bawdy songs / ditties found in
Voice of the People, Vol. 7: First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty.
- I added the text & a request for people who know the song
I Haven't Seen Old Hitler In A Hell Of A Time.
17 April 2004.
- I have placed more texts to
When Dalliance Was in Flower. These four LPs speak to me the most of everything on my website -- even though they are not bawdy folksongs.
- I added a link to the
black toasts
(the predecessor of rap) page. I don't really care for this but is part and parcel of American bawdry.
15 April 2004.
- I have placed a link to this "What's New" page at the top of each page.
- I have added
The Merry Muses
CD to the website. I need to paste texts of the songs from the 1800
Merry Muses of Caledonia.
14 April 2004. I added texts to several Ed McCurdy
When Dalliance Was in Flower songs. These songs are derived from Thomas Du'Urfey's
Pills to Purge Melancholy these songs are NOT mostly online. So it has been difficult getting the lyrics.
11 April 2004. I added mildly ribald images to non-mp3 pages.
10 April 2004. Added the
Rugby Songs Sing-a-long mp3s along with the complete text of the songs.
8 April 2004. Deleted all underscore folders and files. Now everything is dashes so that it is easily picked up by search engines.