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8 Jan 2017.  Added Devilcat Songs (1954).

2 Jan 2017.  Added Marines in the Marianas (1948).

16 Dec 2016.  Added Some Yarns.  This ca 1918 book has humorous stories, naughty rhymes, and bawdy jokes.

12 Dec 2016.   Added the paper "Jody Calls, Cadence Calls, and Marching Songs" (1963).

9 Dec 2016.  Added Cythera's Hymnal (1870).

8 Dec 2016.  Added the Parker Folio Manuscript.  This copy is derived from the G. Legman copy and is incomplete.   This is what Legman had to say about this collection:

PARKER, Shane. Parker Folio Manuscript. 1966-71. (Caption title: "BEWARE! The owner of this book has V.D.") MS, London, and Colchester, Essex. 190 f., folio. (Copies: Shane Parker, South Australian Museum, Adelaide; G. Legman: this copy of 150 f. only, 43 f. being omitted as non-erotic.) Mainly erotic folksongs collected by Shane PARKER in England until 1966, with additions from Australia, 1969—71. Some of the texts are marked as being revised and conflated for singing; others with a large cross reminiscent of Bishop Percy's indicate originals. (Marginal caution, f. 105: "Please Wash Your Hands After Touching This Book.") This is by far the best field collection encountered in the present research, except that of Vance RANDOLPH, q.v., and in Australia John MEREDITH; EDWARDS; and TATE.

7 Dec 2016.  Added Dirt: An Exegesis.

5 Dec 2016.  Added Songs the Squadron Taught Me, July 4, 1943.  This is a revised, bawdier edition of the 1930 song book with the same title.

26 Nov 2016.  We finished typing out The Stag Party (1888).   This book is incomplete lacking 2 leafs (4 pages).

12 Nov 2016.  Added a Girl Scout Songbook (ca 1993) collected / edited by Constance "Connie" Paige.

11 Nov 2016.  

1.  Added Shine and the Titanic, The Signifying Monkey, Stackolee and other Stories from Down Home. 

2.  Added the G. Legman copy of the the SCIIAES Censored Songbook which he titled Be Pure.

3.  Added Ye Ole' Squadron Song Book Attack Squadron One ninety Six (1960).
 

4 Nov 2016.  Added Bibliotheca Arcana by Speculator Morum (1885).
 

2 Nov 2016.  Added better scans of Ashbee's three volume bibliography: Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877), Centuria Librorum Absconditorum (1879), and Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885).
 

30 Oct 2016.  Added G. Legman's copy of "Report from the Marianas: Notes of an Innocent Bystander, No 11" [16 Aug 1945].  Legman's copy has eight additional pages of songs which are not found in other copies.
 

27 Oct 2016.  Downloaded 276 bawdy French song mp3s from www.chansons-paillardes.net
 

21 Oct 2016.  Added six Merry Muses of Caledonia editions:  a falsely dated "1827" Hotten edition, 1843 edition, 1884 edition, 1886 edition, 1911 McNaught edition, and the 1964 reprint of the 1959 Barke and Ferguson edition.
 

3 Oct 2016.  Completed upload of the Bill Getz collection.
 

24 Sep 2016.  Site redesign to make it more "mobile friendly".
 

22 Sep 2016.  Added some Bill Getz collection PDFs. 
 

4 Sep 2016.  Added a children's rhyme: "All Good Children Go to Heaven".
 

9 Dec 2015.  Added Banglesteins Bar a mimeographed songbook by Australians in the Korean War.
 

11 Oct 2015.    Added a few small twelve page booklets:  Limericks, Gaytees, A Delightful Pastime, Country Pleasure, A Country Girl's Pleasure, The Jazzville News, and A Bride's Confession.   The first two of these being the most important.
 

20 Jan 2015.  Added a 1930s reprint of Flossie: A Venus of Fifteen.
 

1 Jan 2015.  Added the South Australian Ski Club Song Book 1961.
 

31 Dec 2014.  Added a copy of Susan Aked (aka Suzan Aked).
 

31 May 2014.  We added a fifth version of the Hotten Merry Muses.
 

13 Apr 2014.  We have started to scan the Bill Getz collection of military songbooks.  This collection consists of 3 banker's boxes (approx. 10,000 pages of material).  We will post links once we have the 1st box scanned.
 

1 Apr 2013.  Added The Old Man Young Again (1898).  The was derived from the Google Books archive.
 

21 Feb 2013.  Added the SCIIAES Censored Songbook (1962).  Legman had an copy without the title page.  He called his copy "Be Pure" from the first song in the songbook.
 

10 Feb 2013.  Added a large mid-1940s bawdy typescript broadside collection.
 

4 Feb 2013.  Added an original copy of Mess Songs and Rhymes of the RAAF (1945).   Compare the original with the 1961 retyped copy.
 

2 Feb 2013.  Added a The Story of a Dildoe (1891).
 

18 Mar 2012.  Found the original(?) song for the "Delta Gamma Here's to You!" parody.
 

1 Dec 2011.  Added the "Stand to Your Glasses Steady" article by J. Lighter and J. Patrick.
 

26 Nov 2011. 

1.  Added a PDF of the Harvard Library copy of My Secret Life, volume 2. 

2.  Added a photo of the title page of the first(?) 1891 edition of The Simple Tale of Susan Aked. 
 

20 Nov 2011.  Added a rare erotic book mentioned in the Ashbee list of prohibited books: Phoebe Kissagen   This book written by Edward Sellon is the 1875-1876 reprint of which Ashbee seems very familiar.  This book was first published by Dugale in 1866.
 

19 Nov 2011.  Added photos of a copy of The Simple Tale of Susan Aked [Susan Naked] issued by the Erotica Biblion Society in 1898.
 

15 Nov 2011.  Added Toasts by Seymour Fiddle.
 

13 Nov 2011.   Added several booklets by "Howard Longfellow" and published by the Tobasco [sic] Publishing Company in Havana, Cuba.  These booklets are all ca 1935 (perhaps a bit earlier):
 

1)  A Dream

2)  Hot Spots in Paris

3)  Life of Betty Compton

4)  A Maiden's Dream

5)  My Experience in a Country

6)  My First Lay

7)  Passionate Muriel

8)  Polly Moran's House

9)  The Story of Harry Richman

11 Nov 2011.  Added Jean Harloe (sic) in Hot Nuts and Mae West in the Hip Flipper both ca 1932 and from the same publisher.
 

7 Nov 2011.  Added Flossie in Bondage and The Youthful Playfulness of Jane.  Both by the same publisher.  The text of Flossie in Bondage appears to be about half of the text that was later printed by Ophilia Press.
 

1 Nov 2011.  Added Benny Samburg's 1932 sheetmusic of "Sweet Violets".  It seems that it was actually written by Benny Bell.
 

25 Apr 2011.  Added Argus Tufts Compendium of Verse (1970).
 

6 Jan 2011.  Added Arthur Deex's revised limerick database.
 

28 Jan 2011.  Added the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America Children's Camp Song Book.
 

18 Jan 2011.  More fraternity & sorority ritual handbooks from the WikiLeaks archive:

1)  Standing Rules of Collegiate Chapters [Pledge Rituals of Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority] (1975)

2)  Ritual of Kappa Sigma (1995)

3)  The Ritual of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity (1969)

4)  Untitled Initiation Ritual of Alpha Epsilon Pi (2000s)

5)  The Ritual and Guide of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity (1984)

6)  Ritual of Sigma Chi (2001)

17 Jan 2011.  More fraternity & sorority ritual handbooks from the WikiLeaks archive:

1)  Untitled Ritual Book of Lambda Chi Alpha (1910s)

2)  The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Ritual (1950s)

3)  Ritual of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated (1976)

16 Jan 2011.  Added a few fraternity & sorority ritual handbooks from a WikiLeaks archive:

1)  Alpha Chi Sigma Rituals (1998)

2)  Alpha Gamma Delta Initiation Ceremony (1990s)

3)  Alpha Kappa Alpha Rituals (1977)

4)  Official Ritual of the Grand Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta (1969)

5)  The Ritual of Alpha Chi Omega (1993)

4 Oct 2010.  Added some French bawdy songs.

31 Jul 2010.  Added a few new bawdy drinking toasts.

28 Jul 2010.  Typed out more of The Stag Party.

17 Apr 2010.  Added a Skinny Malkiny children's rhyme.

11 Jan 2010.  Added a cumulative toast.

6 Dec 2009.

1)  Added vol. 2 of Krauss edited Beiwerke zum Studium der Anthropophyteia.

2)  Added six volumes of Hotten's Library Illustrative of Social Progress volumes printed in the early 1870s.  We are uncertain if these are reprints of 18th century works, cobbled together texts, and/or new erotic texts.
 

3 Dec 2009.

1)  Added a copy of The Fleshly Prelude (1938) by "Robert Sermais". 

2)  We believe that this may have been translated by P.E. Charvet because the first note has the phrase "An old quarter of Versailles which gave its name to a house".  When we googled this phrase, google books has only one exact match by "P.E. Charvet" in a translation of Boudelaire's works. 

3)  Added several volumes of Anthropophyteia.
 

29 Nov 2009. 

1)  Added a copy of My Life and Loves

2)  Added eleven volumes of Kryptadia.
 

26 Nov 2009.  Added a copy of Stays and Gloves by Lord Kidrodstock.

21 Nov 2009.  Added a copy of The Merry Order of Saint Bridget.  This OCR is from the first edition by Hotten ca 1869.

17 Nov 2009.  Added a copy of The Horn Book.   This reprint was printed in Japan as the jacket has a price in Yen and Dollars.

4 Oct 2009.  Revised our field recoding ZIP file.  This now holds 1578 recordings.

30 Sep 2009.  Added the Tina P. camp songs.

28 Sep 2009.  Did a telephone interview with Steve Wood.  He sang the Gay Cavallero and fragments of "The Wild West Show".

26 Sep 2009. 

1)  Added several Camp LPs and 45s. 

2)  Added the reprint of Fanny Hill's Bang-up Reciter, Friskey Songster.
 

23 Sep 2009.  Added the 1985 cd 100 Proof Drinking Songs by Oscar Brand

22 Sep 2009.  Received a copy of The Four Prominent So-and-Sos by Ogden Nash.  This is the 1934 first edition published by Scribner & Sons.

21 Sep 2009.  Added an mp3 of Ogden Nash's The Four Prominent Bastards that is from a 78 record see the original 78 record here.

18 Sep 2009.  Added a partial text of The Young Stenographer.

Here are the promised links to the various W.L. McAtee pamphlets & leaflets:

1)  Supplement to Rural Dialect of Grant County Indiana

2)  Nomina Abitera

3)  Grant County Indiana Speech and Song Supplement 1

4)  Grant County Indiana Speech and Song Supplement 2

5)  Cundumana (Condums)

6)  Supplement to Nomina Abitera 1945
 

17 Sep 2009.  Received a copy of the Greg Hildebrand interview of 2006-06-06 done by Rob Willis. Thanks JoyBell.

14 Sep 2009. 

1)  Did an interview with Ed B. about army songs and college songs. 

2)  Did a face-to-face interview with Kate P.  She sang a fragment of a camp song.
 

23 Aug 2009.  Received a voicemail message from Denise P. containing the song "The Bloody Great Wheel".

14 Aug 2009.  Did an interview with Gene Z.  He sung several college ditties.

20 Jul 2009.  Did a face-to-face interview with Nina C. about children's songs.

29 Jun 2009.

1)  Did an interview with Capt. D.P.C. about singing, songbooks, and drinking traditions in the Air Force.

2)  Added several items of William L. McAtee.  We will link to them later.
 

24 Jun 2009. 

1)  Added Ye Ole Squadron Song Book. Attack Squadron 196. The Yellow Devils (1960). 

2)  Added The Memoirs of Josephine Mutzenbacher (1935).
 

10 Jun 2009.  Added the text of Flossie: A Venus of Fifteen.

06 May 2009. Added a copy of the 163rd TFS  IND ANG Song Book from 1970

01 May 2009.  Received a DMCA notice for the preview mp3s of the We're Here Because We're Here CD.  Preview mp3s removed.

19 Apr 2009.  Did a face-to-face interview with Tina P. about camp and children's songs.  She sang about 40 different songs.  She knew an variant unknown tune for "Sam, Sam the Lavatory Man".

16 Apr 2009.  Placed up the reprint of Unexpurgated by The Open Box Press from the 1950s.

14 Mar 2009.  Added the revised Arthur Deex limerick bibliography.

8 Feb 2009. 

1)  Added text to "Bona Nox".

2)  Added text to "What is an Alpha".

5 Feb 2009.  Added a text for the song "Narcissus, Come Kiss Us".

17 Dec 2008.  Received a copy of The Minstrel Songbook CD by  Duchess Malinda

8 Dec 2008. 

1)  Added a new description to the Immortalia bibliography.  We have discovered a full red cloth Immortalia (ca 1980) which was offset from the 1st pirated edition.

2)  Add a copy of Parisian Frolics.
 

5 Dec 2008.  Added "Indian Revel" from The Bengal Annual 1835.  This is the earliest instance of the song "Stand to Your Glasses" yet found.

9 Nov 2008.  Acquired 1644 football (soccer) chant mp3s.  Warning many are ''obscene''.

24 Sep 2008.  Added a Happy Birthday page for video examples of chain restaurant birthday songs.

5 Aug 2008.  Added a version of the 1737 Canting Dictionary.

28 Jul 2008.  We now have 1366 field recordings from YouTube.com

27 Jul 2008. 

1)  Added Song Book of the Wild Hares (1945).  This is a rare WWII Marine squadron songbook. 

2)  Added The One the Only Baker House Super-Duper Extra Crude Song Book (1963).

14 Jul 2008.  Added Grant County, Indiana, Speech and Song (1946) by McAtee.

6 Jul 2008. 

1)  Added an interested New Zealand bawdy songbook titled Fester (1967).

2)  Added a French songbook titled Breviaire 70 (1970).

23 Jun 2008.  Added Kiwi Songs (ca. 1945).

1 Jun 2008.  We now have 1180 field recordings from YouTube.com

22 May 2008. 

1)  Added the Goobers: A Collection of Kid's Songs cd.

2)  Added a muddled Happy Birthday song at Casa Gallardo recorded on April 25.

19 May 2008.  Added Liederbuch der Luftwaffe (Songbook of the German Air Force).

17 May 2008.  Added George Milburn's The Hobo's Hornbook.  We have reissued the text becuase the copyright has expired on this book.

15 May 2008.  Found a copy of "Zulu Warrior" in the 1949 movie Rope of Sand.

21 Apr 2008.  Added camp songs sung by Kate P. on 4 March and 20 April.

1 Mar 2008.  We talked with Gwendolyn B. about sorority songs.  Thanks Gwendolyn.

24 Feb 2008.  Added the Phi Beta Sigma Song & Chants CD by Black Greek Soundz.

17 Feb 2008.  Finished extracting and tagging 890+ YouTube.com recordings.

29 Jan 2008. 

1)  Added Sound Off (Duckworth Chant) sheet music.

2)  Added Song Book B.T.C. #4.  This songbook has marching medleys.

3)  Added an article about the Tokyo Mose radio program that popularized the song "Moshi Moshi Anone" after WWII.

1 Jan 2008.  Did a telephone interview with Theo. B. about Jonestown and a few other party songs learned at a house in Davis, California.

30 Dec 2007.  Added Chansons d' Etudiants ca 1949.

22 Dec 2007. 

1)  Added the Come and Join the Air Force CD by Dick Jonas, Toby Hughes, Chip Dockery and Irv LeVine.

2)  Added the Fast and Low CD by Toby Hughes.

3)  Added the 100 Proof Drinking Songs cassette by Oscar Brand.

4)  Added the Knock Out Blues Volume 2 CD.

5)  Added the Soul of the Warrior, The Rowdies, and The Planes We Flew CDs by Dick Jonas.

6)  Revised the YouTube.com audio "field recordings".  There are now 210 mp3s.

21 Dec 2007.

1)  Added the 1954 Stovepipe Serenade 1st edition.

2)  Interviewed SteveG about football terrace chants/songs.

3)  Interviewed Christine O'Neil. She sang a variant of Jingle Bells, Batman Smells.

4)  Interviewed Tom N.  He sang a parody of We Three Kings of Orient Are.

15 Dec 2007. 

1)  Received a copy of the 1964 version of Chansonnier Etudiant issued by "Association Generale des Etudiants de Lyon". 

2)  Received a copy of Chansons Gaillardes et Bachiques du Quartier Latin (1933).   Thanks Jay!  These books are much appreciated!

8 Dec 2007.  Received a copy of The Castration of the Strawberry Roan: Cowboy Songs for Impolite Company cassette from Guy Logsdon.  Thanks Guy!

26 Nov 2007.  Revised our field recordings complete download (178MB). This zip file contains the recordings issued the last few days.

25 Nov 2007.  Added songs, skits and other items from the Springfield [Missouri] RFC / Pill Harrier RFC game and social on 2 June 2007.

24 Nov 2007. 

1)  Added songs and rhymes by Page Stephens.

2)  Added songs and recitations by David Snyder.

3)  Added cadences by James S.

4)  Added songs sung by BoY GeOrge.

5)  Added songs sung by David H.

6)  Added rhymes, songs and jokes by Ron Graham.

22 Nov 2007.  Added the songs, rhymes and other ditties by LadyJean on the 15 Nov 2007.

20 Nov 2007.  Added the We Are Warriors recitation.  We first ran across this recitation on YouTube.com.

15 Nov 2007.  Placed up a recording by LadyJean titled No Hiding Place Down There.  She also sang many other songs, recited a fragment of the "Night of the King's Castration", jokes and other ditties.  She talked of singing in the SCA.

10 Nov 2007.  Added Super Stag Omnibus: A Special Limited Edition which is the predecessor of Super Stag Treasury.

3 Nov 2007.  Talked with Joe B. about a few unusual rugby songs he learned playing rugby in the USA.

2 Nov 2007.  Talked with Christine O'Neil and got the full version of her poem "I Wanted To Rebuff Your Balls".

24 Oct 2007. 

1)  Added the U.S. Navy Running Cadences, Vol. 1 CD from the www.CadenceMasters.com website.  This CD, which we thought may be a copy of songs from the Documentary Recordings Run to Cadence CDs, is actually an independently produced CD with variant tunes and words for many of the classic cadences.

2)  Added The Legendary Drill Instructor CD.  This is dreadful.  Don't buy it.

18 Oct 2007. 

1)  Added a few obscure songs found on YouTube.com: My Name is Stegosaurus and While Looking at My Feet.

2)  Added the 1989 version of Sissy Man Blues on CD.

16 Oct 2007.  Added Everybody's F---ing But Me by Durwood Douche.

6 Oct 2007. 

1)  Added two SCA (Society of Creative Anachronism) related CDs: All that Crap They Make Me Sing and Flagons & Dragons by Master Efenwealt Wystle and Dunstan LeHeryngmongere, respectively.

2)  Added the Fiddler Beers Sings Psalty Psongs with Psaltery and Pfiddle LP.

3)  Added The Whole Damn Lot 7CD set by Axel the Sot.

1 Oct 2007.  Added the Kappa Alpha Psi cd from Black Greek Soundz.

30 Sep 2007.

1)  Added the Forester's Songbook (ca 1935, Iowa State University / Civilian Conservation Corps(?))

2)  Added the IOCA Song-Fest (ca 1938, First(?) Edition)

14 Sep 2007.  Added the complete version of Delta Gamma, Here's to You.

13 Sept 2007.  The interview Richard M. Design, owner of the 497th TFS Night Owls Songbook, went well. We learned the purported origin of "dead bug" is from avoiding SAMs (surface to air missiles), more about the entertainment of "MIG sweep", Indian (leg) wresting and about drinking contests to see who would buy the next round of beers.  We also heard more about party suits.  Little song material was collected but still a interesting interview.

12 Sep 2007.

1)  Added a fragment of a song about Delta Gamma: DG, Here's to You [fragment].
We are lacking about half the song.

2)  Added photos sent to us by John W. Herbert.  Thanks John!

5 Sep 2007.  Added the 5th volume of Wit and Mirth: Pills to Purge Melancholy (1714).

3 Sep 2007.  Added the revised Limerick Bibliography from Arthur Deex.

28 Aug 2007.  We finally found Colonel Potter's shower song from M*A*S*H: I Love to Go Swimming with Bowlegged Women. This is sung to the tune "Blaze Away".  Now we need to find the Drew Carey Show version.

25 Aug 2007.  Added a folklore wiki, http://wiki.horntip.com, so that we can work on the song "Stand to Your Glasses Steady".

23 Aug 2007.  Added My Life and Loves by Frank Harris and The Bagnio Miscellany. The latter book was originally issued in the 1830s.

13 Aug 2007.  Added several Half-Mind Hymnals retrieved from the Internet Archive.

4 Aug 2007.  Added three cassettes of sea songs from the Sea Heritage Foundation / Folkways:  Sea Songs New Port, RI, Sea Song Favorites, and Bawdy Briny Ballads.

21 Jul 2007.  Added a song and part of a poem done by Christine O'Neill on 20 Jul 2007.  Christine learned the Cow Song from TKE members at Carbondale University in the late 1980s.

18 Jul 2007.  Added big, banned & blue.  This CD purports to give music from the 1940s lounge scene.  We doubt that any of the music is from the 1940s.

7 Jul 2007.  Added rhymes and ditties of an anonymous woman recorded 6 July 2007.

23 Jun 2007. 

1. Added several Run to Cadence CDs issued by Documentary Recordings.
2. We have extracted eighty-two mp3s from various YouTube videos.

20 Jun 2007.  Added the original Omega Psi Phi Black Green Soundz Vol.1 cd cover art and insert.

7 Jun 2007. 

1. Added West Point Songs.
2. Added a three CD collection French songs.  One song is related to The Monks of St. Bernard.
3. Transcribed The Sniffing Song as sung by Reta Ray.

2 Jun 2007.  We traveled to Springfield, Missouri for a rugby game between the Pill Harriers and the Springfield RFC. 

30 May 2007.  We did a telephone interview with an anonymous female rugby player from an east coast university.

13 May 2007. 

1. Downloaded about 120 videos from YouTube.com and other sites.  These videos contain children's songs, hash house harrier songs, and rugby chants.  We will extract the audio from the more unusual items and post transcriptions.
2. Added the book School Life in Paris (1897) issued by the Erotica Biblion Society.  This book contains a few bawdy jokes and two rhymed recitations. One of these poems we have collected in 2003.

6 May 2007. 

1. Added Wit and Mirth: Pills to Purge Melancholy Volume 4.
2. Added the OCR text of Cowboy Songs and Frontier Ballads from the Guttenberg Foundation.
3. Grouped together the Half-Mind Hymnals by Paul "Flying Booger" Wolford.

5 May 2007.  Added a few folklore items from the 1987 movie Full Metal Jacket.

30 Apr 2007.  Added The Diarrhea Song from the movie Parenthood.

29 Apr 2007.  Added songs from an anonymous woman recorded at Cat's Meow in Soulard on 7 March 2007.

28 Apr 2007. 

1. Added many "field recordings" of The Diarrhea Song as recorded in various YouTube.com videos.
2. Recorded songs by Puffin Stuff.

15 Apr 2007. 

1. Added Wit and Mirth: Pills to Purge Melancholy Volume 3.
2. Added our bookplate collection.

8 Apr 2007.  Added Wit and Mirth: Pills to Purge Melancholy Volume 2.

31 Mar 2007. 

1. Interviewed Barbara C. about songs learned while Kappa Kappa Gamma at Oklahoma State University. 
2. Added Wit and Mirth: Pills to Purge Melancholy Volume 1.

18 Mar 2007. 

1. Added A.L Lloyd's English Drinking Songs.
2. Added field recordings from YouTube.com.

11 Mar 2007. 

1. Added John Valby's 2003 Concerto for Piano, Voice and 500 Screaming Assholes DVD.  This is not the same as the 1989 CD of the same name.
2. Added Larry Vincent's Laugh Provoking Ditties for the Party.  This is Pearl Records LP #4.
3. Added the Dr. Demento Society's Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes Volume 1 CD.
4. Added Toasts and Sentiments issued by George Routledge and Sons.

9 Mar 2007.  Added After Dinner Verse collected and edited by Rodney Blake.  This is an interesting collection of graffiti, autograph verse, book admonition poems and other doggerel verses. 

4 Mar 2007. 

1. Added Some Limericks by Norman Douglas.
2. Received a copy of Toasts, Jokes and Limericks by Natalie M. Sutherland.

28 Feb 2007.  Added two children's rhymes recorded on 27 Feb 2007:  We Must Increase Our Bust and Granny's In The Cellar.

25 Feb 2007.  Issued digital versions of a few articles by Sam Hilt which originally appeared in the Australian Folklore Society Journal.

16 Feb 2007. 

1. Added a copy of The Unofficial College Song Book from the University of Wisconsin.  Although undated, it is from the late 1950s or early 1960s.
2. Added Das Minnelied des Deutschen-land und-Stadtvolkes edited by Friedrich S. Krauss in 1929.

14 Feb 2007.  Added a Book Theft Admonition section.

12 Feb 2007. 

1. Deex's Limerick Bibliography has been updated.
2. Added the 1911 1st edition of The Burns Federation's Merry Muses of Caledonia edited and annotated by Duncan McNaught.

11 Feb 2007.  Reorganized the Merry Muses of Caledonia editions for ease of comparison.

10 Feb 2007.  Added another version of A Book of Nonsense from Marco at http://www.nonsenselit.org.

4 Feb 2007. 

1. Added A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear.
2. Added Give Out!  A book banned by the post office in 1944.

27 Jan 2007.  Added the recording of children's songs & ditties by Dave H. which were recorded at The Edge in Belleville, Illinois on 22 Jan 2007.

22 Jan 2007.

1. Added texts for the Bonnie & Bawdy Scotch Drinking Songs LP.
2. Added Ringwald Rated R LP.

17 Jan 2007.

1. Added the 1939 article "The Psychopathology of Drinking Songs".
2. Added Private Eye's Blue Record.  This LP has three songs which folklorists have collected, that show up on songbooks or are covered by other people without credit.

15 Jan 2007.  Added Street Walking Blues LP issued by Stash Records in 1979.

14 Jan 2007.  Added several LPs of 17th & 18th century songs:

1. Catches & Glees of the English Restoration.
2. Tavern Songs: Catches, Glees and Other Diverse Entertainments of Merrie England.
3. Lyrica Erotica Vol.3: Women's Delight.

12 Jan 2007.  Added an important untitled WWII marine songbook.

11 Jan 2007.

1. Added Bawdy Ballads of Old England by City Waites.
2. Added the Barely Alive at the Antlers LP and the 1992 remake.

1 Jan 2007. 

1. Added songs from Bill "The Fox" Foster from The Man Show - Season 1 - Volume 1.
2. Added a text of The Covent Garden Drollery Second Impression.
3. Added a recording of Redwing sung by R.E. Van Guilder on 29 Dec 2006.

28 Dec 2006. 

1. Added the ca 1935 Rhyme of All Flesh.
2. Added The Assumption Song downloaded from ebaumsworld.com
3. Added My Name Is Jack, I'm A Necrophiliac downloaded from YouTube.com.

18 Dec 2006.  Added songs from Bill "The Fox" Foster from The Man Show - Season 1 - Volume 2.

10 Dec 2006.  Added The Fox: Songs Banned in Boston LP by Bill "The Fox" Foster.  Some of the songs from this LP are found in the field collection of David Romas & Michael Fitzpatrick.  Unusual songs & ditties from this LP: Lack of Shacking Up, Seagulls Created Great Britain, Under a Scotsman's Kilt, and Granny on the Outhouse Door.

3 Dec 2006. 

1. Added a Guides (scouting) MS songbook collection from Australia which dates from 1978-1985.
2. Added graffiti from Cat's Meow in Soulard.

23 Nov 2006.  Added a ribald music collection from the 1950s(?).  Many of these songs can be found on the Pearl 78 records.

22 Nov 2006.  Did a telephone interview with James S. about marching & running jodies while in boot camp in 1986.  This includes My Girl's A Vegetable and the infamous Napalm Sticks to Kids.

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 the mp3 subsection now listing mp3s by approximate date they were recorded.

11 July 2006.  Over the last month we 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. 

1. Added The Limerick: A Facet of Our Culture.
2. Revised this website's Terms of Use.

22 Jun 2006.  Reorganizing the commercially recording mp3s.  There will be many broken links until we have time to upload the changes.

20 Jun 2006.  Added the ca 1958 Aces High: 317th FIS Songbook.

18 Jun 2006. 

1. Did an interview with Lisa B. about songs sung at University of Pennsylvania.
2. Added Hadji Girl song.
3. 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. 

1. 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".
2. Talked with an anonymous 82 year old woman about the party records and her purchasing the 78 recorded titled "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
3. 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 the 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 the 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 R. about the Perversity Files.

29 May 2006.  Received a rhyme from Richard K. called Teen Heaven.

22-31 May 2006.  Placed up many raw OCR texts of songbooks and redesigned the songbook subsection.

16 May 2006. 

1. Did a telephone interview with Gladys Amburn-Queen. She sang some songs and fragments learned in 1948 at college in San Francisco.
2. Added the second cassette of the David Romas & Michael Fitzpatrick Collection from Central Michigan University.

15 May 2006. 

1. 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.
2. 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. 

1. 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 
2. Did a telephone interview with Ron Graham about children's rhymes, drinking toasts and other doggerel verse.
3. 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. 

1. 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.
2. Talk with Gary Faulconbridge and Peter Sheppard about the I's Reunion Record the unique New Zealand EP record.

10 May 2006.  Revised the Hubert 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. 

1. Added the Fleet Air Arm (Royal Navy) songs & recitations of John W. Herbert from 17 April.
2. Added the rugby songs & recitations of K.W. from 21 April.

6 May 2006. 

1. Talked with Jeff Morgan about the Canfield Collection (1925-26).
2. 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. 

1. Received several important, early collections from Ed Cray including the 300+ page Hubert Canfield Collection (35MB) from 1925-26 and Rivinus Collection from 1950-64.
2. 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. 

1. Added a mirror of Arthur Deex's online illustrated Some Limericks bibliography.
2. 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. 

1. Added two CDs from Sam Hilt: Hey! Bin Laden Old Man and To Be A Soldier.  The latter CD was defective and we are only able to provide previews of six tracks.
2. Added songs and rhymes recorded by George Gittoes in Iraq.
3. 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. 

1. 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.
2. Added a cadence subsection.

7 Apr 2006. 

1. Added the My First Time recitation.
2. Added a new text for Diddlin' Nellie.

6 Apr 2006. 

1. 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.
2. 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. 

1. Added SteveG's songs and rhymes from the 5th of March.
2. Added sung limericks from 1905 & 1908 found on Edison cylinders.
3. 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. 

1. Added a flash version of the Diarrhea Song.
2. Finally discovered the tune for The Girls in France (aka The Hootchy Kootchy Dance).  This is The Streets of Cairo. 
3. 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. 

1. 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.
2. Added a graffiti subsection of the 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. 

1. 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.
2. 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. 

1. 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".
2. 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.
3. We 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.

1. 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.
2. 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. 

1. Added a reference to the bawdy songs in the Sam Eskin collection (1939-69) to the bibliography.  We need copies of the manuscripts & recordings.
2. Added the Why Santa Was Late Hallmark Christmas card from ca 1937.
3. Did another interview with Joseph G.

8 Mar 2006. 

1. Added the text of Arthur Argo's Ye Ken Pretty Well What I Mean-O.
2. Added Rude Dudes double CD.
3. Added the One Can Short of a 6 Pack CD.

7 Mar 2006.  Since we believe that the amount of material already present on the website has reduced the number of new informants, we 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. 

1. Received Sam Hilt's Apres la Guerre 3CD set of military songs.
2. Received Occupational Folksongs of the US Air Force CD. 
3. Received a copy of Jonathan Myer's 1962-1964 self-taped field recordings.
4. 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 we 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. 

1. Added Iris & Rose's four CDs of bawdy "Rein-Fair" songs.
2. 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 our collection and gives download links when possible.

18 Feb 2006. 

1. Received the ca 1954 Songs of the 8th Fighters (PDF 7MB).  This is the third printing of this 8th Fighter-Bomber Wing songbook.
2. Placed up the children's songs of Eloise from the 5th of July 2005. 
3. Placed up the songs sung by Sara & Menard J.  on the 11th of July 2005.
4. Placed up the songs sung by Andy C.  on the 12th of July 2005.
5. Placed up the songs sung by C.  A.  on the 12th of July 2005.
6. 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. 

1. Received two books from Arthur Deex: The Bawd's Book and his reissue of To Solace the Blind.
2. 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.  Here is a simple HTML version of the database.

11 Feb 2006. 

1. Added lyrics to I Wouldn't Say No To A Naughty (aka Earl's Court Blues).
2. Added link the partially typed out text of The Stag Party ca 1888.

10 Feb 2006. 

1. Added the mp3s from Glenn Ohrlin from the 8th of January.
2. Added the Beat the Band to the Bar CD.
3. 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. 

1. Added a ca 1946 version of I Used to Work in Chicago on the Mercury record label.
2. 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. 

1. Added a sung version of The Street of a Thousand Assholes.
2. 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. 

1. We have revised our toasting section.  It now incorporates most of the goodtoasts.com website.  These pages need to extensively edited and reformatted.  Thanks Peggy for the suggestion.
2. Did a face-to-face interview with Walter Deyherle.
   

30 Jan 2006. 

1. Added The Raven compiled by Jim Roper for the 1990 Raven FAC reunion.
2. Added texts for Seamus Kennedy's CDs.
3. Received a copy of "I Used To Work In Chicago" sheet music from 1946.

29 Jan 2006. 

1. Added the text of a tavern leaflet ca.1943 .
2. Added several texts of The Night of the King's Castration.
3. Added There's a Place in France (aka The Hootchie Kootchie Dance).
4. Added text & tune for Nellie Put Your Belly Close To Mine by James M.  This uses the same tune as "The Hootchy Kootchy Dance".
5. 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. 

1. Added Viper Mad Blues: 25 Songs of Dope and Depravity.
2. Added field recordings from an old wire recorder.
3. 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. 

1. Added The Great War CD.
2. 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. 

1. Added texts for two versions of Plastic Jesus: the Paul Newman and the original Goldcoast Singers versions.
2. Interviewed Ian Cumming about rugby songs, hash songs and other drinking songs & traditions.  It will take a while to get this up because we still haven't edited Glenn Ohrlin's interview.

17 Jan 2006. 

1. Added the Please Warm My Weiner CD.
2. Added lyrics for Sunshine.

16 Jan 2006. 

1. Added Elsa Lanchester's Bawdy Cockney Songs LP.
2. Finished processing Ronnie J.'s 78 records.  We now have a decent collection of Party Record Company 78s.

15 Jan 2006. 

1. Added Joseph G's songs from 8 Jan 2006.
2. 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.  We will digitally convert them in the next few days.

8 Jan 2006. 

1. Did an interview with Glenn Ohrlin about the context of cowboy songs. 
2. Did another interview with Joseph G.  He sang numerous ditties & fragments.

7 Jan 2006. 

1. Added the lyrics to Camp Songs by the Pixie Players.
2. Added College Drinking Songs by The Blazers.
3. Added Barrack Room Ballads by The Squaddies.
4. Added Party Hits Volume I on the Trash Records label.
5. 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, we have all Doug Clark LPs online.

1 Jan 2006. 

1. Added Songs My Mother Never Sang by Homer and Jethro.
2. Added The Blue Kangaroo at the Schooner: Straight & Trashy LP.
3. 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. 

1. Received the ca 1984 Red River Rats Song Book.  This book was purchased with a Marine Air Controller Squadron 6 history from 1963.
2. Added descriptions of the songs found on the Them Dirty Blues 5 LP boxed set.
    

29 Dec 2005. 

1. Added the Carson J Robison: Real Hillbilly Legend CD.
2. Still fixing broken mp3 links. We are now down to 160 broken links.
    

25 Dec 2005.  We used MusicMatch to rename our mp3 collection thereby incorporating spelling corrections and other annotations .  This has resulted in over 950 broken links.  It will be a few days before we 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. 

1. Received the 1876 Carmina Collegensia songbook.
2. 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. 

1. Added The Diana Sisters Go Wild! LP.
2. Did another interview with Joseph G. 
    

15 Dec 2005. 

1. Added the Sea Songs and Shanties [Traditional English Songs from the Last Days of Sail] CD.
2. Added the Barrack Room Ballads LP from Boulevard Records.
    

14 Dec 2005. 

1. Added the Billy Devroe LP Censored. Notable songs on this record are Jerico and Matches and BVDs.
2. Did another interview with Patrice G.
3. 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. 

1. Added Bob Coltman's Petting Her Cat cassette.
2. Added the Camp Songs CD by the Peter Pan Pixie Players.
3. 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 the preview mp3s using MP3 Surgeon 2004.  This program made 5900 preview mp3s in only 8 minutes.

5 Dec 2005.

1. Received the Cap Pellitier's The Official Rugby Book (Songs and Other Strange Stuff) 1993 Revised 2nd edition.
2. Added Doug Clark & The Hot Nuts: Greatest Hits Collection CD.
3. 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. 

1. 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.
2. Revised our Sweet Violets listings.  We 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. 

1. Did an interview with WF Peifer about The Hole in Bottom of the Sea.
2. Added John Valby's Beaver Fever CD from 1988.

28 Nov 2005. 

1. Added the 1947 Blue Ox Song Book (30MB).  Mildly ribald texts from a ski lodge.
2. 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.

1. Added more Larry Vincent 78s on the Pearl Record label.  We are only lacking two or three from this label.
2. 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.
3. Added many more 78 records. 
    

25 Nov 2005. 

1. Added the Fighter Pilots Hymn Book (11MB) by William Starr.
2. 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. 

1. Added three John Vably CDs: Butt Seriously Folks, Butts Up Doc and Half In The Fuckin' Bag.
2. Removed the James McWilliam collection from the site as it contains copyrighted materials.
    

21 Nov 2005. 

1. Added the lyric sheet which accompanies the Moshi Moshi Anone 78 record.
2. Received the Larry Vincent LP: Listen and Laugh No.2.
3. 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. 

1. Added the Oscar Brand Sings For Adults LP.
2. Added the Hearty Rugby Songs LP.
3. Added several 78 records:

• Larry Vincent on Pearl Records
  • Pearl Records compilation of 78s
    • 64A - Xmas Tree Song
    • 64B - Zoo Song
• Paul Wynn
  • Cocktail Party Songs
    • 101A - Take A Ship For Yourself - Paul Wynn
    • 101B - Hinkey Dinkey Polly Voo - Paul Wynn
    • 303A - Noses Run In The Family - Paul Wynn
    • 303B - Tattooed Lady - Paul Wynn
• Unknown
  • Zest
    • Billiards
    • Lost Fly
• [Larry Vincent]
  • [plain white label 78 with dark blue text]
    • Derby Town
    • The Flounder Song
       

16 Nov 2005.  Added Oscar Brand's Every Inch A Sailor LP.

15 Nov 2005. 

1. Added three Erosonic CDs: Live at Leeuwarden, The Juvat Boys Choir Headhunters, Passing The Flame.
2. Added the Cap Pelletier book The Official Rugby Song Book (And Other Strang Stuff).

14 Nov 2005. 

1. Added the Songs For Fun LP by Hattie Noel and Billy Mitchell.
2. Added the Bawdy British Ballads LP by Big Theo Johnson.
3. Added the Rugby Songs Party LP by The Scrum Halves on the Major Minor Records label.
4. Added the Barrack Room Ballads LP by The Bullshiners on the Major Minor Records label.
5. Added the Rugby Songs LP on the Boulevard Records.  This includes a few rare songs.
6. Added the Songs The Censor Missed! on the Party Record Company [Australia].
    

13 Nov 2005. 

1. Made available the 1971-72 VMA- 224 USS Coral Sea Song Book (Notes).
    
2. 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.
    
3. Hooked up our turntable again and have started recording a few of our 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. 

1. Added the Ring-Dang-Doo LP by Jill Lass & the Follies.  This female night club comedian sings two bawdy songs.
2. 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. 

1. Added the Molly Bennett cassette The Bawdy Beautiful.
2. Added the R-Certificate Song Book Vol.2.  Thanks Michael Brown for giving me this. 
    

6 Nov 2005. 

1. Revised the field collection ZIP (111MB).
2. Received a ca 2000 Stray Dog Hash Hymnal.
    

4 Nov 2005.  Received our order of 13 DVDs of the 15 DVDs we ordered from StompShow.com.  It took three months and we 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.  We 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. 

1. Received the Jeanne Robertson: The Queen Among The Heather CD.
2. 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 the MP3s.  This renaming incorporates spelling 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. 

1. Added two Frank Crumit CDs both titled The Gay Caballero.  These CDs are important because they give other bowdlerized ribald songs. 
2. We have limited our download all mps page to just our field recordings.  If anyone is interested in knowing the complete 6700 mp3 collection (currently), they can see that here.

21 Oct 2005. 

1. Did a face-to-face interview with R.E. Van Guilder at a local VFW.  He did several rhymes he learned from his father.
2. 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. 

1. 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.
2. Placed up the CD Bawdy Briny Ballads: Oscar Brand Sings Sea Porn.  Nothing new here.
3. 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.  

1. Added a PDF of the 1943 book Unexpurgated by Bidet Press.
2. Added the lyrics to Seamus Kennedy's CDs.
3. 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.
4. Added the CD by Filthy Fred & Dirty Dick CRUD.
5. Added the CD Frank Crumit Returns.
6. Added the CD Risqué Rhythm: Nasty 50s R&B.

15 Oct 2005. 

1. Added the CD Naughty Nostalgia.
2. Added the OCRed text for The Complete and Official Unexpergated (sic) Roadtrip Songbook.
3. Received the 1963 University of Queensland Song Book.
4. Add At the Pub with Bob Smith.  This is a good performance of some unusual songs.

10 Oct 2005. 

1. Added our recordings of limericks to the limericks page.
2. We added the non-traditional song Who Were You Thinking Of (When We Were Making Love Last Night)? by the Texas Tornados.
3. Added a few unusual songs texts:  Brassiere, Leprosy and My Turtle Has Tuberculosis.

9 Oct 2005. 

1. Added the 58 children's songs sung by Harold Harvey.  The tunes for several of these songs are used for bawdy songs.
2. 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.

1. Added the ca 1982 songbook The Complete and Official Unexpergated (sic) Roadtrip Songbook.  Thanks Mal! 
2. 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. 

1. Revised the aviation songbooks page.  We placed up many previously unlinked songbooks. 
2. Added more field recorded songs from the On-On Podcast.
3. 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 we need to re-interview him.

2 Oct 2005.  Added the Men song by Martin Mull.  This song is found in several rugby songbooks.

1 Oct 2005. 

1. Found melody for "When It's Hog Calling Time In Nebraska".  The tune is "Red River Valley".
2. Discovered an extra verse for "When It's Hog Calling Time".
3. 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. 

1. Added texts for Stag Party In London Vol.1.
2. Did an interview with an anonymous woman.  She sang several unusual songs including:  Brassier, Leprosy and My Turtle Has Tuberculosis.
3. Added the McWilliams' collection of limericks and songs.  Much of this is not bawdy but it is good to have nonetheless.

23 Sept 2005. 

1. Added Double Valby: Don't Go Soft On Me Now / Your Face Or Mine CD.
2. 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. 

1. Did telephone interview with Allan J. a marine fighter pilot.
2. 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.
3. 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. 

1. Added The Scotsman's Kilt as sung by Seamus Kennedy.  This version has two verses not seen before.
2. 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.  We 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. 

1. Added song text of The Bonny Black Hair from the Bird In The Bush CD.
2. 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. 

1. Added Carmina Princetonia 1900 edition (PDF 10MB).
2. Added text for The Eighteen Pounder, The Wanker's Song,  Landlord Fill The Flowing Bowl and A Fairy Story.

4 Sept 2005.  

1. Added songs sung by Ian Cumming on 17 July 2005.
2. Added songs sung by Giles R. on 1 August 2005.
3. 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.
4. Added the Crud CD by Filthy Fred and Dirty Dick
5. Added Robert Burns' The Merry Muses CD.
6. Added The R-Certificate Songbook LP with the unusual song The Hermit.

1 Sept 2005. 

1. Added preview video of a field recording of "The Yogi Bear Song" sung by the University of Northern Iowa Varsity Men's Glee Club.
2. Added a text for Maggie May found on the Rugby Songs Vol 2 LP.

28 August 2005.  We'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. 

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Added Rude Rock & Dirty Ditties CD

25 August 2005. 

1. Added three CDs of 102 Full Length Camp Songs.
2. 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. 

1. Placed up songs & chants by J. R.
2. Added transcriptions of three different versions of the "Old Red Flannel Drawers That Maggie Wore".
   1. Summit Records Version
   2. Les Cleveland's Version
   3. 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. 

1. Received The Pinder of Wakefield (1632) reprint from 1956.  This contains many songs and ditties. Two of these are mildly bawdy or scatological.
2. Removed local mirror of the Alpha Phi Omega / Epsilon Lambda Official Bawdy Songbook.
3. Placed up some previews of Songs My Brothers Taught Me: The Songs of Delta Upsilon International Fraternity.

15 August 2005.

1. 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.
2. Add the CD If It Ain't A Hit ...Them Dirty Blues.
3. Received Joe Davis' Songs Thy Don't Sing In School.

14 August 2005. 

1. 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.
2. Put up lyrics for Christofo Columbo, Shave 'em Dry, Lady Chatterley, Jenny Wren Bride and She Was Only A Postmaster's Daughter.
3. Placed up more preview mp3s for Seamus Kennedy's CDs.
4. Added the SAE Songfest CD: A Blast from the Past.
5. Added Doug Clark & The Hot Nuts: Greatest Hits CD.

13 August 2005. 

1. 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.
2. Added some song texts for Sir Roger of Kildare and The Pheasant Plucker. 
3. 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. 

1. 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.
2. Added a January 1994 MS-WORD version of ZiPpY's Definitive Hash Song Book. Thanks TuTu Fairy for sending me this.

8 August 2005. 

1. 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 we are unable to find an Oscar Brand version of this song.
2. Added text of 4 or 5 times.  We like this song and it is a good performance but we don't know if it is traditional or not.

5 August 2005. 

1. 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)
2. Added Buy Now links for several CDs.  Hopefully we will not be receiving as many emails from people who want to purchase but can't do a proper google search.
3. 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. 

1. Added an 1840s bawdy joke titled Tom Brown's Jest Book.
2. Added another CD of The Pork Duke Presents series.  This one is titled Farmyard Frolics.

1 August 2005. 

1. Added a better scanned version of The Bang-Up Reciter. 

31 July 2005. 

1. 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.
2. Added a page for Doity Records: Vol. 1.
3. Added the The Definitive Hash Song Book by ZiPpY thanks to the generous help of Ian Cumming who lent me ZiPpY's own copy.
4. 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.  We are backlogged with recordings and it will be a while before we can get these up.

27 July 2005.  Added John Meredith tape 30 to our collection.  Sorry no previews as we 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. 

1. Added eight(?) CDs done by Black Greek Soundz. These CDs were also pirated just like the Alpha Phi Alpha Song & Chants which we had purchased earlier:
    
   1. Chants of Omega Psi Phi
   2. Chants of Kappa Alpha Psi [CD 1]
   3. Chants of Kappa Alpha Psi [CD 2]
   4. Chants of Phi Beta Sigma
   5. Songs and Chants of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
   6. Songs and Chants of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
   7. Songs and Chants of Sigma Gamma Rho
   8. Songs and Chants of Zeta Phi Beta
      
2. 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. 

1. Received a copy of Songs We Learned at Mother's Knee ... and other Lowly Joints yesterday.
   
2. We now have songbooks:
    
   1. Fiend Book 2002 (Notes)
   2. Society of Old Bold Aviators Songbook 2001 (Notes)
   3. Society of Old Bold Aviators Songbook 2000 (Notes)
   4. Society of Old Bold Aviators Songbook 1999 (Notes)
   5. Society of Old Bold Aviators Songbook 1998 (Notes)
   6. 53rd NATO Tiger's Combat Songbook (Notes)
   7. WASP Songs (Notes)
   8. The SPUD Hymnal (2nd Edition 1992) (Notes)
   9. Untitled Songbook (From Reeves)
   10. Bull Durham Songs of SEA (Notes)
   11. Barracks Ballads by WC Ward (Notes)
   12. Bull Durham Songs of SACk (Notes)
   13. The Songs We Sang by Les Cleveland (Notes)
3. Did a telephone interview with Ian Cumming.  It will be quite a while before we get the recordings up.

16 July 2005.

1. Added more songbooks from the Lydia Fish collection.
   1. 744th Combat Songbook (Notes)
   2. The Raven FAC 1990 Reunion Songbook (Notes)
   3. 18th TFS Blue Fox Song Book (Notes)
   4. 44 TFS Hymnal (Notes)
   5. VT4 World Famous Rubber Ducks Hymnal (Notes)
   6. The Downwinds DET WESTPAC (Notes)
   7. 121st Aviation Company 'Tiger Tunes' (Notes)
   8. Songs of SEA, Other Places, Other Things with Stag Bar Supplement (Notes)
   9. No Slack Him Book (Notes)
   10. Songs of Saigon 1st Edition (Songs that Pacify) (Notes)
2. Added Alpha Phi Alpha Chants and Songs by Black Greek Soundz.

15 July 2005.

1. Added song texts for High Above An Ankle, Down By The Old Mill Stream,  Birth Control and Why Was He Born So Beautiful. 
   
2. Added these Vietnam era songbooks from the Lydia Fish collection:
   1. Satan's Angels Songbook (Notes)
   2. 101st Airborne Division Songbook (Notes)
   3. The Crusader Hymnal (Notes)
   4. Songs of the UTT (Notes)
   5. 12 TAC FTR WG Song Book (Notes)
   6. Phantom Phlyers Sing Vietnam (Notes)
   7. 48th Assault Helicopter Company (Notes)
   8. Cosmos Command Christmas Carols (Notes)
   9. We're Here for Fun (Notes)
   10. Songs of the Saigon Cosmos Command (Notes) 

12 July 2005. 

1. Did a telephone interview with Cliff A.  Quite a while before can we get this up.
2. Did a telephone interview with Andy C.

11 July 2005.  Did a telephone interview with Sara & Mendard J.

10 July 2005. 

1. 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.
2. 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. 

1. Finished Lydia Fish's military songbook CD.  We will be publicly issuing the songbooks from this collection as time permits.
2. Added the 1986 Inter-hash Song Book and the 2000 edition of Hash Songs: A Selection of Hazukashii's Favorites.
3. 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. 

1. Added the 1st edition of Snatches & Lays and The Hell of the Good.
2. Added text to "Fight, Fight, Fight for Palestine".

3 Jun 2005. 

1. Did interview with David K. about the song "Fight, Fight, Fight for Palestine".
2. 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. 

1. Added The Frisky Songster (1802 edition).
2. 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. 

1. Added An Amphibious Anthology of Rare Hymns (3rd Edition).
   
2. Added fragments of the 13 Oct 1990 Raven's reunion.

27 May 2005. 

1. Added fragments of RAAF Pilots in Amberley, Australia in 1979.
   
2. 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.  

1. Added text to the songs "Head" and "Nine Inch Will Please A Lady".
2. 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.  We 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).

1. Interviewed Paul Stamler.  His version.
2. Interviewed Cassie R.  Her version.
3. Interviewed John R. (Not related to the above Cassie R.) His version.
4. 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. 

1. Text up for Beetles Don't Decay as sung by Charlie Noble.
2. We have permission to issue a digital copy of Legman's 1990 International Erotic Songs Bibliography.
3. Placed up field recordings of an anonymous female sorority member.
4. 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.  We are 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.  We edited this recording 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. 

1. Graduate student conference.  Our goal is to at least interest one student at the conference in bawdy folklore.  We will try different tacks -- student folklore, women's studies and military folklore.
2. 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.  We are typing out a few other parts of this collection.

25 Mar 2005. 

1. It seems that Google is now indexing the first 500KB of webpages instead of 100KB.  This means we can reformat some of the OCRed books on to fewer pages.
2. 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 reprint of the infamous "1827" edition  (4.6MB).
3. Added text to The Pearl Christmas Annual 1881.

23 Mar 2005.  

1. Added John Valby's version Big Ass Lil & Yukon Pete.  Compare this with Lil the Whore and Eskimo Nell.
2. Did a telephone interview with Ed Cray.  We are trying to understand the context of bawdy songs.
3. 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. 

1. Added the text to Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport non-bawdy song by Rolf Harris.
2. Added the bawdy recitation The Bastard from the Bush.

19 Mar 2005. 

1. Added If It Ain't A Hit I'll Eat My... CD.
2. Added text fragments to Dick Jonas' first six CDs.

18 Mar 2005.  

1. Added text of Tori Amos singing Assholes Are Cheap Today.
2. Received a copy of Death Rattlers (5.1MB) from an anonymous donor.  You know who you are...Thanks!
3. Added text for Dear Mom Your Son Is Dead from the A Night at the Bar with the Boys CD.

17 Mar 2005. 

1. Received 200+ pages of photocopies from The Kinsey Institute for Sexual Research.  We need to go through and see exactly what we received as the material is not labeled. 
2. 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. 

1. We 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)
2. 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. 

1. 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.
2. Added text for Patrick Sky's version of Our Baby Died.

13 Mar 2005.  

1. 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? 
2. 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. 

1. Added the song texts of Abortion, Don't Cry Lady, Shave 'em Dry and Uncle Bud.
2. 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.  Placed up a text to The Motherfucker's Ball.  If you sing this song, please send an email to . 

6 Mar 2005. 

1. Placed up The Word 'Fuck' recitation.  If you know who recorded this recitation, please send me an email at .  Thanks!
2. An anonymous Scottish erotica collector has sent me photocopies of Poems, Ballads and Parodies (PDF 4.7MB) and Lyra Ebriosa (PDF 1.5MB).
3. 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.

1. Did an interview with an anonymous WWII fighter pilot.
2. 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. 

1. 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. 
2. 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].
3. Songs & fragments sung by Turok are up.

26 Feb 2005. 

1. Did another interview with Dennis "Mu-Sick" Gill.  It might take a while to get these songs up as we are backlogged with field recordings that need to be edited.
2. Found another version of Napalm Sticks to Kids.  This version is found on Janus' Gravedigger CD.
3. Found the creator of the If I Only Had A Dame song.  This is by -itis and is found on their eatus CD.
4. 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. 

1. Placed up the Odd Shaped Balls: 37 Saucy Rugby Songs from the Hallmark label.
2. Placed recordings from the John Meredith / Rob Willis Collection.

19 Feb 2005.

1. Did a telephone interview with a female Washington University graduate. 
2. Did another face to face interview with Ivy T.

18 Feb 2005.

1. Did another interview with Charlie Noble.
2. 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. 

1. 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.
2. 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 Gaily Yet

6-11 Feb 2005.  We are 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. 

1)  The 61 songs & recitations done by Vaughan Hully are up.

2)  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. 

1)  Did a two hour telephone interview with Vaughan Hully.  He sang many rugby songs from the mid to late 1960's.

2)  Received a few mp3s from Abby Sale.
 

27 Jan 2005. 

1)  The songs sung by Tom Jones III on 24 Jan are up.

2)  Updated the "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. 

1)  Placed up the text of Frankie & Johnny as purportedly done by Gene Autry.

2)  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 we are 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.  Placed up the text to The Woodpecker Song.  This song is the predecessor of The Pussy Cat Song.

19 Jan 2005.  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.  Most of the site is back up.  Please report bad links & corrupt files.

15 Jan 2005.  The website was down while we did a reinstall of Red Hat & Plesk.  We lost the Bulletin Board.  There was not much there anyway. 

14 Jan 2005.  Finished placing up the track listing from the Hitchcock recordings. 

12 Jan 2005.  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.  Placed up half of the list of the Hitchcock recordings.

9 Jan 2005.  Received some recordings from Abby Sale.  He sent me: Beggar Wench, Lichtbob's Lassie, The Old She-crab, The Traveler. 

8 Jan 2005.  Placed up the track listing of the Laycock field recordings from the Library of Congress.  We are still working on the Hitchcock recording of college songs.

7 Jan 2005.  Received the following field recordings:

1)  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.

2)  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.  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. 

1) Received the Castration of the Strawberry Roan from Abby Sale.

2) Did a very short telephone interview with Tom Jones III.  He sang Down By The Old Mill Stream.
 

2 Jan 2005. 

1. 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.
2. Added texts to Deep Throat's songs.  We now include a Buy Now link.
3. Added two songs emailed to me by Abby Sale: Johnson Girls and Kafoozalum.

1 Jan 2005. 

1. 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.
2. 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. 

1. Revised the Swing Low Sweet Chariot description and have included the optional sound-gesture "spitting to lube up" before the masturbation.  We observed this on 15 Dec 2004 at Madam Yuk's house on Waterman in Saint Louis but see footnote on the Swing Low page.
2. Added many of the texts to John Frushour's songs.  We don't know why we didn't have them up sooner.  We 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 the website since its creation but we seem to have failed to link to it.

25 Dec 2004. 

1. Added the texts to the www.grandfolkies.com children's songs.
2. We have made extensive revisions to the rugby, hash & college songbooks/recordings pages.  We have added a cowboy songs page.
3. More songs emailed to me by Abby Sale are on his page.

24 Dec 2004. 

1. 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.
2. Added a Camping & Scouting Songbooks webpage.  These songbook have mildly bawdy & scatological folklore.
3. Added a children's songbooks & recordings this page bawdy & scatological materials as learned in childhood.

23 Dec 2004.  Added a college songbook and recordings webpage that lists our meager collection of college songs.

22 Dec 2004. 

1. Added a Hash House Harrier webpage that has our various hash recordings, songbooks and field collected material. 
2. Revised the Rugby Songbooks & Recordings page to include many more of the post-internet songbooks which we have downloaded.

21 Dec 2004.  Added a Rugby Songs / Songbooks page that lists our current collection of rugby songs, songbooks and other recordings.

19 Dec 2004. 

1. Rearranged the bawdy songs with music section.  We have so many songs with music that the individual pages have become unwieldy.  Hopefully the alphabetized way that we have done it allows for easier finding of songs.  Now we have to place up the alternate titles and link them to the primary entries.
2. Received more recordings done by Abby Sale.  We should get them up very quickly.

18 Dec 2004. 

1. Placed up the Dick Jonas Erosonic CDs.  We also placed up the In Country and Dos Gringos CDs.
2. Taking a cue from Rainer Otter, we have placed up a Air Force Songs webpage which lists our squadron songbooks, CDs and books.
3. Abby Sale has sent me some better quality recordings than the ones that we have made over the phone.

17 Dec 2004.  Received 12 CDs from Erosonic.  We should have them online with preview mp3s in a day or so.

15 Dec 2004.  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. 

1. 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.
2. 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.  Converted the GIFs to PNG in the music section of the website to save a little download time.

11 Dec 2004. 

1. Received The Apples of Eden from Guy Logsdon.  Thanks Guy.
2. Added the SOBA-2002 cd. 

10 Dec 2004. 

1. 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.
2. 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 we have not seen before and seem to be primarily from African-American informants in New Orleans, Louisiana.

9 Dec 2004. 

1. Added the CDs done by Jonathan Myer of Vietnam songs.  He was a Forward Air Controller (FAC).
2. 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.  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.  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. 

1. Added the older texts to the "My Baby Died" description. 
2. Made a compressed file of all our 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. 

1. Added the song My Baby Died to the categorized songs section.  For a long time we doubted this song was a folksong but it seems to have had some currency.
2. Added The Moose Song as sung by Abby Sale to the categorized songs section.

29 Nov 2004.  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.  Placed up the song-sheet of the LP  Stag Party In London Vol.2.

26 Nov 2004.  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.  Added the 17 Rowdy Rugby Songs CD.  This is the predecessor to the Outrageous Rugby Songs CD.

23 Nov 2004.  Added the CDs of Warren Fahey.  If you like his CDs, you can purchase them directly from him.

18 Nov 2004. 

1. We have heard back from James P. Leary.  He seems a knowledgeable person.  We may be able to help each other.
2. 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. 

1. We have been tracking down several other manuscripts.
2. We are 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).
3. We have mailed James P. Leary and Cathy Preston.  Both of these folklorists have a continuing interest in bawdry.

16 Nov 2004.

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.

1. Did a telephone interview with Abby Sale.  He sang "The Lady In Red" again and a version of "Sam Hall".
2. Placed up a webpage of the 1883-97 bawdy broadsides.  We also placed up a PDF of the broadsides (29MB) and of the complete full page scans (29MB) of ledger book.

13 Nov 2004. 

1. Placed up the 109 songs sung to me by Little Head (aka Shut Yer Manhole).  Sorry it took so long Little Head.
2. 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.  Placed up the text of the Tell It To The Marines LP.  Thirty second preview mp3s as time permits.

10 Nov 2004. 

1. Received the Bobby Horton CD with John Harroldson on it.  The incomplete bowdlerized version is, as far as we know, only the second time that this song has been recorded. 
2. Received Oscar Brand's Tell it to the Marines LP.

9 Nov 2004. 

1. Received The Pearl Christmas Annual 1881 from Ed Cray.
2. Received "College Songs That Are Unprinted (For Obvious Reasons)" term paper written by Sheryl Goldstone in ca 1935. 
3. Received Mess Hall Songs & Rhymes of the RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force).  Our copy is lacking three pages.  We have emailed to see if the pages are missing in the original.

7 Nov 2004.

1. Did a telephone interview with Abby Sale.  He sang rare song:  "The Lady In Red".
2. We finished scanning at 600dpi 8bit greyscale the bawdy manuscript ledger-book that has bawdy broadsides.

4 Nov 2004.  Received permission to do research at the Kinsey Institute for Sexual Research.  We will be going to Bloomington, Indiana February 7-11.

1 Nov 2004.  Today we 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.  We placed up PDFs of the two 35th Tactical Fighter Wing songbooks.  There is no OCR as our time is being spent on the Larson MSS.

29 Oct 2004. 

1)  We are trying to get permission to research at the Kinsey Institute.  We 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.

2)  We received two 35th Tactical Fighter Wing songbooks.  Both date from ~1968.

28 Oct 2004.  We 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. 

1)  Received the 1st edition of The Fleet Air Arm Song Book.

2)  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.  We have been working on scanning Rose's Register of Erotic Books.

17 Oct 2004.  We have placed up the songs sung by Freddy K.

15 Oct 2004.  We 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.  We will supplement the Ashbee bibliographies with Rose's Register. 

14 Oct 2004.  We 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.  We did a telephone interview with Freddy K.  He sung the distinctively Canadian song North Atlantic Squadron.  We are backlogged with Little Head's recordings and it may be a while before we get time to cut up the songs on this recording.

9 Oct 2004. 

1)  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.

2)  Placed up the two songs from Tom Kissedher: My Name Is Ben Johnson, The Cow Kicked Nelly In The Belly

6 Oct 2004.  We received two recordings from Tom Kissedher.  We will add these recordings and the text to them in a few days.

5 Oct 2004.  Started scanning Ashbee's 3vol. Bibliography of Prohibited Books.  We 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.  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 our collection.  Thanks Daniel.

27 Sept 2004.  We 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. 

1)  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".

2)  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 we expected. 

18 Sept 2004. 

1)  Talked with the widow of a folklore professor about issuing her husband's master's thesis.

2)  Issued the 1825 Tavern Anecdotes (PDF ??MB) from our digital archives.  This book gives a snapshot of the clubs & taverns during the Regency in London.  We used this in our research into drinking songs.  If anyone has an interest in OCRing the text, we can provide 400dpi greyscale TIFFs.
 

14 Sept 2004.  We have converted to black & white some of the PDF found in our online library.  The Gentleman's Bottle Companion was originally greyscale at 300dpi.  It is now 600dpi black & white.  We will convert a few of the other large PDFs to black and white saving disk space and download time.

12 Sept 2004.  Acquired the book More Snatches and Lays. This book is a revised & expanded version of Snatches and Lays.

10 Sept 2004. 

1)  Added the Abby Sale field recording page.  Text of the songs to follow.

2)  We 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. 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.  Scanned 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.  We 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. 

1)  Did a telephone interview with John Frushour.  He sung the songs "Careless Love" & "The Fort Benning Motto".

2)  Murray Shoolbraid has identified the "Peri-Periwinkle" song as derived from a parody of "Jessie, The Flower of Dunblane." 
 

31 August 2004. 

1)  Revised our Immortalia bibliography.  We now name The Rockmay Press of Tokyo, Japan as the publisher of the Arthur MacKay edited "Karman Society" edition of Immortalia.

2)  Did a telephone interview with Murray Shoolbraid
 

30 August 2004. 

1)  Produced a 400dpi 1852 United Empire Minstrel (8.5MB).  The pages have some stray dots & hairs.  We will clean them up as we have time.

2)  Abby Sale has made available a few recordings of uncommon songs:  Appleknocker, Tit Punctured By A Spoke and Vanessa Picklegin.

3)  We are 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. 

1)  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. 

2)  Found the original scans of the 1927 Merry Muses of Caledonia pirated reprint of the 1911 McNaught edition.  We have issued this as a 400dpi PDF (3.5MB).
 

24 August 2004.  We 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.  We will issue a PDF of the songster later.

18 August 2004.  Did a face to face interview with Richard K..  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. 

1)  Released to the ballad-l list the Gordon 'Inferno' Collection OCR.

2)  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.  We have news that the CD that we 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.  We placed up the songs sung 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.  Did a two hour telephone interview with a woman in the Canadian Naval Reserves.  Mrs. T. sung some unusual songs for me.  We will try to break them up and have them online in a few days.

7 August 2004.  Created a non-bawdy songbooks section of the 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 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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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. 

1)  We 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.

2)  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. 

1)  We did a face-to-face interview with David Carter.  He did a recitation of the Walking Down Canal Street learned in 1966 in Brooklyn, NY.

2)  We OCRed the book The "Wrecks".  The texts of this book are primarily from Immortalia but there is about 25% new or different material.

3)  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.

4)  We emailed the Canberra War Memorial to request a photocopy of an Australia songbook from 1942.

5)  We 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.  We 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.  We called all the Paul Smith's in New Foundland.

1 August 2004.  We 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.  We 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.  We spent time "collating" the 'Inferno' Collection by creating hyperlinks from the Index to the actual texts.  We have found that one text, #249, is missing from our HTML version.

27 July 2004. 

1)  We have finished OCRing the Gordon "Inferno" Collection.  We don't know if we can issue this collection on the website.  We will need to contact the Library of Congress to ask what restrictions, if any, are on the collection.

2)  We 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.  We are producing a CD of bawdy field recordings from our collection to be distributed at the NY bawdy songs session by Ed Cray.

25 July 2004.  We finished scanning the Gordon "Inferno" Collection typescript at 600dpi. We have made a PDF of the scans for private reference.  We 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.  We 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.  We have decided to type out the bawdy broadside-manuscript ledger book that we own.  Hopefully this ledger book will go to the Library of Congress for restoration and preservation.

12 July 2004.  We have 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.  We did a field recording of Ivan Burger singing the round Adam Caught Eve By The Furbelow.

7 July 2004.  We 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.  We are currently backlogged with processing field recordings and don't know when we 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.  We have further revised our Immortalia bibliography.

27 June 2004.  Received five emails with mp3 attachments from Tom Kissedher (pseud.) a rugby player in the Netherlands. 

26 June 2004.  We did a field recording of Mark A Mandel singing Thais.

25 June 2004.  We 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 we discovered the Warren's Olde Style watermark in the paper.  This is the same watermark that is found in the 1st edition of Immortalia.  We 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.  We have further revised our Immortalia bibliography and have included many more photos of typographical errors and other variations. 

10 June 2004.  We 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.  We have received a few new Immortalia and have revised our descriptions of the various printings of this book.

6 June 2004.  We did a "field recording" of Larry Haffner singing the song Wild West Show.

29 May 2004.  We have added PDF versions of Anecdota Americana I and II, our 1905-07 typescript and several other manuscripts.  Please see here.

28 May 2004.  Copyright concerns have caused me to disable downloads.  We are purchasing software to deal with this worry.

25 May 2004.  We 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  .

23 May 2004.  The Hash Songs double cassette sung by Dennis "Mu-Sick" Gill is (mostly) online.

21 May 2004.  We did a phone interview with Sky Queen this conversation and the two songs he sung me are online here.

20 May 2004.  The website is back online.  We 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. 

1)  The website was offline due what appears to be a rather simple DOS attack.  We have modified the Apache server to prevent this type of DOS. 

We am looking for someone to MIRROR this website.  If interested, we will setup a rsync server so that you can easily mirror this website without the bandwidth consideration of other methods.

2)  We did another interview with Tom "Fuc Stik" Tarka over the phone.  We are a bit busy and don't know when we will be able to process this conversation.
 

16 May 2004. 

1. We 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. 
2. We placed up the text to Irian Jaya, All Australians Born Illegitimate, Jonestown.

15 May 2004. 

1. We did another phone interview with Sudsuckin' Bigfoot and Enter the Gerbil, Gypsies in the Palace HHH.  We hope to have those songs processed and available for download in a couple of days.
2. We placed up more categorized songs w/ texts:  The Girls From Campus Hall, Monks of St. Bernard, One-eyed Trouser Snake.

13 May 2004.  We placed up more categorized songs:  Casey Jones, Drive It On, Happy Birthday [Rude Version],  Happy Birthday [Rude Version - different text & tune]. 

12 May 2004. 

1. Placed a forum (aka bulletin board) up for the posting of hash, rugby and other traditional bawdy songs -- or for just regular discussion.
2. We made the embedded sound files to NOT autostart.  This means that you can browse our website while at work without the fear of your boss HEARING.
3. We 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.  We 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.  We added the songs sung by Tom "Fuk Stik" Tarka to the field recording subsection of the website. We will add the TEXT of the songs he sung in a day or two.

7 May 2004. 

1. We converted via OCR the rare book The Book of a Thousand Laughs.  Those that want a pdf version, this is also available.
2. We did a four hour phone "interview" with Avocado Tom a long time hasher.  He sung many unusual songs.

5 May 2004. 

1. 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". 
2. Added "field recording" of Hamish Henderson singing The Ballad of King Faruk.  We 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.  We placed up three songs sung by Sandy Paton: Strawberry Whore, Fascinating Bitch, and One-Balled Reily.

27 April 2004.  

1. We 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? 
2. We 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. 

1. Google seems to have re-indexed the website.  The search box is working again. 
2. We 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. 

1. Placed the Come On Lads by the Sods Opera page up.  This good CD from England has interesting variants of traditional bawdy songs.
2. 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. 

1. We 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. 
2. We have placed the texts to The Art of the Bawdy Song online. 
3. We 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. 
4. We 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. 

1. We have placed more texts to When Dalliance Was in Flower. 
2. We added a link to the black toasts (the predecessor of rap) page. We don't really care for this but is part and parcel of American bawdry.

15 April 2004. 

1. We have placed a link to this "What's New" page at the top of each page. 
2. We have added The Merry Muses CD to the website.  We need to paste texts of the songs from the 1800 Merry Muses of Caledonia.

14 April 2004.  We 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.  We 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.

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