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Title The Erotic muse : American bawdy songs / Ed Cray [compiler].

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1992]
©1992

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  M1977 .B38 E76 1992    Available  ---
Edition 2nd ed.
Description 1 score (xlii pages, 435 pages) ; 24 cm.
score
Series Music in American life
Music in American life.
Note Unaccompanied
Contents Old, new, borrowed, blue. Sea crab -- Cod fish song -- Four old whores -- Five nights drunk -- The Darby ram -- The tinker -- The monk of great renown -- Horse shit -- Samuel Hall -- Sam MacColl's song -- In Kansas -- I am growing old and gray -- My husband's a mason -- The foggy, foggy dew -- A-rovin' -- The fire ship -- Bell bottom trousers -- When I was young -- The Gatesville cannonball -- Bollochy Bill the sailor -- The wayward boy -- Ball of yarn -- The ball of Kirriemuir -- O'Reilly's daughter -- I went down to New Orleans -- My God, how the money rolls in -- Life presents a dismal picture -- The keyhole in the door -- Seven old ladies -- The bastard king of England -- Blinded by shit -- She was poor but she was honest I -- She was poor but she was honest II -- The hairs on her dicky di do -- As American as Mom's apple pie. Frankie and Johnny -- Stackolee -- Casey Jones -- No balls at all -- Charlotte the harlot I -- Charlotte the harlot II -- Charlotte the harlot III -- Charlotte the harlot IV -- Bang away, Lulu I -- Bang away, Lulu II -- Bang away, Lulu III -- The ting-dang-doo -- The Chisholm trail -- Gonna tie my pecker to my leg -- While hanging around town -- The big black bull -- The Lehigh Valley -- Hallelujah, I'm a bum -- The Winnipeg whore -- Kathusalem -- Abdul the Bulbul -- Walking down Canal Street -- Red wing -- I-yi-yi-yi -- The little red train -- The woodpecker's hole -- The pioneers -- The gay caballero -- Humoresque -- Footprings on the dashboard -- Caviar comes from virgin sturgeon -- The sexual life of the camel -- I used to work in Chicago -- I want to play piano in a whorehouse -- Schnooglin' -- There was an old lady -- Teasing songs: Suzanne was a lady -- Ship's in the harbor -- There once was a farmer -- Two Irishmen, two Irishmen -- Sweet violets -- Ditties -- The second-hand muse. Born in a whorehouse -- My grandfather's cock -- Ta-ra-ra boom de ay -- Casey got hit with a bucket of shit -- Old Aunt Sally -- In the good old summer time -- Sweet Adeline -- St. Louis woman -- Mother -- The motherfucker's ball -- In the shade of the old apple tree -- By the light of a flickering match -- Put on your old gray bustle -- Let me ball you sweetheart -- John saw a tulip -- Jada -- In that little pink nightie -- Carolina in the morning -- My blue bedroom -- Doodle-de-doo -- Pubic hair -- Bye bye cherry -- I've got a start on a twelve-inch hard-on -- Minnie the mermaid -- Object of my affection -- These foolish things -- Hot vagina -- Last time I saw Paris -- You are my sunshine -- Sunday, Monday and always -- On top of Old Smoky -- Secret love -- Hey, roll me over -- Foam rubber pads -- Undergraduates coarse. We go to college -- Roll your leg over -- Christopher Columbo -- The good ship Venus -- Yo ho, yo ho -- Bill Go Leary, or, I clapped my hand on her thigh : a very celebrated flash song -- Drive it on -- Roll me over -- Son of a gambolier -- The cardinals be damned -- Do your balls hang low? -- Balls to Mister Banglestein -- Last night I stayed up late to masturbate -- Organ grinder -- Hot nuts -- When the end of the month rolls around -- High above a Theta's garter -- To thee, Hershey Hall -- We are the dirty bitches -- Fascinating lady -- Take your man around the corner -- In Bohunkus, Tennessee -- My girl's from USC -- Mary Ann Barnes -- Nelly darling -- I love my girl -- Sam, Sam, the lavatory man -- Knock, knock -- Rugby song -- Cats on the rooftops -- Next Thanksgiving -- The ten days of finals -- Uncle Joe and Aunty Mabel -- Bless 'em all. Snapoo -- I don't want to join the Army -- Fuck 'em all -- Fucking machine -- Sound off -- Honey babe -- Too rally -- Dinky die -- Flying Colonel -- Sewing machine -- Lee's hoochie -- Yellow rose of Taegu -- Moving on.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-425) and index.
Subject Bawdy songs -- United States.
Bawdy songs.
United States.
Folk music -- United States.
Folk music.
Folk songs, English -- United States.
Folk songs, English.
Genre/Form Notated music.
Notated music.
Added Author Cray, Ed.
ISBN 0252017811
9780252017810