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,