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The
Best
Bawdry
Best
Bawdry
Compiled by
Don Laycock
ANGUS & ROBERTSON PUBLISHERS
To my children,
Melany, Gregory and Vivien,
that they may understand something of their heritage
ANGUS & ROBERTSON PUBLISHERS
London . Sydney . Melbourne
This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the
purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as
permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by
any process without written permission Inquiries should be
addressed to the publisher.
First published by Angus & Robertson Publishers, Australia, 1982
Copyright © Donald Laycock 1982
National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-publication data
The best bawdry
Includes index.
ISBN 0 207 14444 3.
1. Bawdy poetry. 2. Erotic poetry, English
3. Bawdy songs, English — Texts. I. Laycock,
Donald C. (Donald Clarence).
821'.008'03538
Typeset in 11 pt Oracle by Setrite Typesetters
Printed in Singapore National Printers (Pte) Ltd
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1
Bibliography
7
The Street of a Thousand Arseholes 11
Abdul Abulbul Emir
12
The Big Rock Candy Mountains 15
The Traveller's Return
16
The Woodpecker's Song
18
These Foolish Things
19
The First Time I Saw Her
20
The Latrine Song
22
The Ballad of Joking Jesus
23
Things I Don't Like to See
26
Poor Blind Nell
29
Walter Lee
30
Poxy Flo and Syphilis Willy
33
The Ball of Kirriemuir
33
Wild Oaken Tree
41
The Portions of a Woman
43
Tight as a Drum
46
The Balls Song
47
- Triolets
48
The Bastard from the Bush
50
The Nursemaid's Lament
55
Professor John Glaister
56
My Sister Elizabeth
58
The Bride's Letter
60
Would You Have a Young Virgin? 72
Little Angeline
73
Among My Souvenirs
75
All the Saints in Kingdom Come 76
The Spanish Guitar-O
77
Me No Likee British Soldier
78
Sing a Song of Sixty-Nine
79
Samuel Hall
81
My God How the Money Rolls In 83
Buggered
85
In Mobile
87
Christmas Day in the Workhouse 93
She Was Poor But She Was Honest 94
The Riddle
98
John Brown's Penis
99
Pull Me Dungarees Down, Sport 101
The Keyhole in the Door
104
A Is For A
106
Silver Hairs Among the Gold
107
The Good Ship Venus
108
The Monk of Priory Hall
113
Cats on the Rooftops
115
Waterloo Road
121
The Ram of Derby
121
Harry Cheeseman
123
If I Were the Marrying Kind, Sir
124
The Sexual Life of the Camel
125
The Moon Shone Bright
126
Knees Up Father O'Reilly
127
Don't Know Why
127
The Ringy-Dang-Doo
128
Three German Soldiers Crossed the Rhine 130
Antonio Agostini
132
Country Girls
132
Brian Boru
134
The Balls of O'Leary
135
Old King Cole
135
Had a Wet Dream Last Night 138
Anthony Clare
139
Footprints on the Dashboard Upside-Down 140
Jean-Baptiste
141
A Century of Limericks
142
Life Presents a Dismal Picture
157
Nancy Brown
159
Railway Blues
162
Arsehole-Charcoal
163
Every Nice Girl
164
On Top of Old Sophie
165
Roll Your Leg Over
166
The Old Black Bull
169
Fools' Names and Fools' Faces 171
Toasts and Boasts
175
Verse and Worse
176
The Dying Harlot
179
Drury Lane
180
I Don't Want to Join the Army 181
The Kings Cross Harlots' Ball
182
Yorkshire Rhymes
183
O'Reilly's Daughter
185
The Harlot of Jerusalem
186
Roll Me Over in the Clover
191
Two Irishmen
192
'Neath the Shade of the Old Apple Tree 193
If I Had the Wings of an Angel
194
Mrs Murphy
194
A Soldier I Will Be
195
Ja-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay
195
Violate Me in Violet Time
196
Blood Will Tell
197
I Get an Erection Just Thinking of You 198
Redwing
199
No Balls At All
200
Lehigh Valley
201
Please Don't Burn Our Shithouse Down 202
Fanny Bay
203
Old Mother Murphy
204
Polymorphously Perverse
205
Seven Old Ladies Locked in the Lavatory 207
Cod Save Queen Cunt
211
Salome
213
Missy's Thoughts
215
The Bastard King of England
216
Barnacle Bill the Sailor
218
Four Harlots
223
The Gay Caballero
224
Pees
225
The Great Big Wheel
226
Charlotte and the Nightwatchman 228
The Finest Family
230
The Tinker
231
An Old Mouldy Maidenhead 233
Two Lovers
234
The Sea-Crab
236
Knaves Will Be Knaves
238
The Chandler's Shop
239
Brian O'Lynn
240
The Winnipeg Whore
243
The Trooper Watering His Nag 244
Coridonand Phillis
245
The Jolly Tradesmen
246
Sing a Song of Syphilis
248
Up-Tails All
249
My Husband's a Butcher
251
Cosher Bailey
252
Christopher Columbo
255
The Lobster
257
The Walrus and the Carpenter 258
The Twelve Days of Christmas 259
The Old Chisholm Trail
260
I Used to Work in Chicago
262
Four-letter Words
264
The Eskimo's Death Knell
266
Do Your Balls Hang Low?
267
Whoredean School
268
Early in the Morning
271
The Virgin Sturgeon
271
Pruritus Nanny
273
The Trip to Heaven
274
A Little Maiden Passing By
276
Over the Hill
277
Lakeside Lament
279
The Shearer's Lament
280
The One-Eyed Rylah
282
Father's Grave
284
Put On Your Old Grey Bustle 285
Cinderella
286
It Pays to Advertise
294
My Country Girl
295
Eskimo Nell
296
Index of Titles
304
Index of First Lines
306