This is the 1967 book Why Was He Born So Beautiful and Other
Rugby Songs by Harry Morgan with a preface by Michael Green. The cover title was shortened to just
Rugby Songs in 1973. Below
1973 variant cover. The contents are the same as the 1967 book.
There is a companion volumes titled
More
Rugby Songs issued in 1968.

contents
11 preface
13 did you ever see
14 lulu
15 darling grace
15 lil
16 three old whores from winnipeg
17 young roger of kildare
18 the traveller
21 can you walk a little way with it in?
22 red flag
23 nellie 'awkins
24 the mole catcher
26 the ring dang doo
28 ring the bell, verger
29 the street of a thousand arseholes
31 the alphabet
32 all the nice girls love a candle
33 there was a priest, the dirty beast
34 the ball of kerrymuir
41 once there was a servant girl whose
name was mary jane
43 the minstrels sing of a bastard king
of many long years ago
46 who's that knocking at my door?
47 i'm a gentleman of leisure, of
nobility and pleasure
48 dinah
49 diamond lilly
50 the doggies' meeting
51 clementine
52 the chastity belt
54 cats on the rooftop
57 eskimo nell
67 durex is a girl's best friend
67 do yours hang low?
67 don't say no
68 fanny bay
68 the good ship venus
72 the german officers
73 gentlemen should please refrain
75 the harlot of jerusalem
79 i don't want to join the army
80 knobby hall
82 the keyhole in the door
84 john peel
84 jack and jill
85 inside those red plush breeches
86 ivan scavinsky scavar
88 she was poor but she was honest
91 the monk of great renown
92 the maid of the mountain glen
93 those old red flannel drawers that
maggie wore
94 maggie may
97 poor little angeline
100 life presents a dismal picture
102 the portions of the female
104 o'reilly's daughter
106 old king cole
109 the north atlantic squadron
111 no balls at all
113 nelly cartwright
115 my old man
116 my god how the money rolls in
118 seven old ladies
120 if i were the marrying kind
123 roll me over in the clover
125 rip my knickers away
126 the rajah of astrakan
127 queen of all the fairies
128 put on your bustle
130 the virgin sturgeon
132 sweet violets
134 sonia snell
136 small boys
137 the sexual life of the camel
138 the one-eyed riley
139 will you marry me?
141 fly away you bumble bee
142 the balls of o'leary
143 the engineer's dream
144 the tattooed lady
146 darkie sunday school
148 monte carlo
149 christopher robin
150 large balls
151 in the shade of the old apple tree
152 the ram of derbyshire
153 the hole in the elephant's bottom
155 some die of drinking water
156 the church song—ding a dong
157 carolina
159 boy meets girl
160 your spooning days
161 sing us another one do
171 why was he born so beautiful?
171 be kind to your web-footed friends
172 whoredean school
175 working down the sewer
176 when lady jane became a tart
178 the bachelor's son
179 miss milly
181 stormy weather, boys
182 the walrus and the carpenter
183 she went for a ride in a morgan
184 bye, bye, blackbird
185 charlotte the harlot lay dying
186 christopher columbo
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