HOGBOTEL & FFUCKES
SUN BOCKS MELBOURNE
Sun Books Pty Ltd, The Macmillan Company of Australia,
South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia
First published by Sun Books 1973
Copyright © Sebastian Hogbotel and Simon Ffuckes
Reprinted 1977, 1980
This revised edition 1983
National Library of Australia
Cataloguing in publication data
More snatches & lays.
Rev. ed.
Previous ed. published as: Snatches and lays.
Melbourne: Sun Books, 1973.
ISBN 0 7251 0421 X.
1. Bawdy songs, English —Texts. I. Hogbotel.
II. Ffuckes. III. Title: Snatches and lays.
784.6'83067
Set by ProComp Productions Pty Ltd, Adelaide
Printed in Hong Kong
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Index of Titles
SONGS 1
Abdul A-Bulbul Emir 24
Alice Blue Gown 5
All the Nice Girls 4
Anthony Claire 18
+ As Drunk as Drunk Could be 59
Arsehole Charcoal 16
Ball at Kirriemuir, The 29
Bob Menzies' Balls 17
Brian Boru 43
+ Bachelor's Son, A 54
+ Ballad of Professor John Glaister,
The 67
+ Bell-Bottom Trousers 66
Chandler's Shop, The 12
Cats on the Rooftops 13
Comin' Thro' the Rye 54
+ Cowpuncher's Whore 56
+ Derby Ram, The 45
+ Dinah 58
Dinky Die 41
Dying Harlots, The 10, 11
Fanny Bay 50
Fascinating Bitch 34
Father O'Flynn 30
Finest Family, The 44
Harlot of Jerusalem, The 23
Heigh-Ho Says Rowley 19
I don't Want to Join the Army 25
+ If I Were the Marrying Kind 50
Jean Baptiste 16
+ John Peel 64
Kings Cross Harlot's Ball, The 37
La Marseillaise 55
Life Presents a Dismal Picture 8
Lilian 38
Lovers' Alphabet 21
Lulu 65 +
Marriage a la Mode 6
Mobile 36
Monk of Priory Hall, The 41
Monte Carlo 52 +
Money Rolls In, The 48 +
More Vulgar Mind, A 33
Muirland Meg 57 +
My Grandfather's Cock 22
My Sister Elizabeth 42 +
New People's Flag, The 35
Nightwatchman Blinded By Shit,
The 34
No Balls at All 3
On Top of Old Sophie 12
O'Reilly's Daughter 31
Parlez-Vous 47 +
Passengers Should Please Refrain 53 +
Please Don't Burn Our Shithouse
Down 70 +
Poor Little Angeline 27
Rajah of Astrakan, The 46 +
Regularity 6
Ringadangoo, The 7
Road to Gundagai, The 3 5
Roll Me Over in the Clover 44
Sammy Hall 39
Seven Old Ladies 32 +
Sexual Life of the Camel, The 62 +
She Was Poor but She Was Honest 65 +
Sir Jasper 8
Sixpence 22
Soldier Told Me, A 40
Sweet Violets 5
Tender Memory, A 31
Those Old Red Flannel Drawers
that Maggie Wore 62 +
Three Farmers' Daughters 26
Tinker, The 17
Tit-Bits 2
Twelve Lays of Christmas, The 10
+ Violet Time 69
+ Woodpecker, The 63
RECITATIONS 71
Bastard from the Bush, The 80
+ Christopher Robin 87
+ Cold 88
+ Christmas Day in the Mess Hall 90
Eskimo Nell 74
Fragment 73
Goddam Isles, The 79
Good Ship Venus, The 82
+ Hills of Assam, The 85
+ If 88
Lines Addressed by a Student 83
Old Maid, The 87 +
Oysters is Amorous 74
Penfriends 89
Sister Anna 89 +
Street of a Thousand Arseholes,
The 84 +
Table Manners 81 +
Three Prominent Bastards 72
Twenty Toes 88 +
Walrus and the Carpenter 86 +
Your Spooning Days are Over 85 +
LIMERICKS 91
TOASTS 99
HEALTH WORDS 101
ENVOI 103