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GUEST,IanA Lyr Req: Naughty rounds - anyone? (18) RE: Lyr Req: Naughty rounds - anyone? 25 May 16


Lots of naughty rounds and catches. (Incidentally, in the last post, 'wanderers' ought to be 'wondrous').

Dr Edmund Ayrton, in 1778, wrote:

"The night he was wedded quoth Inigo Jones
Thou flesh of my flesh and thou bone of my bones,
There's a joke in the name of thy husband, dear Nancy,
A rare one, so rare that it tickles my fancy.
Lie still my dear love and my good thing shall out -
Oh Lord, Mr Jones, what are you about?
Hush, hush, pretty creature your squeakings and moans,
It's the joke that I told you of - In I Go Jones."

Jonathan Battishill, in 1763, wrote a musical epitaph -

"Here on his back doth lie Sir Andrew Keeling,
And at his feet his mournful lady kneeling.
But when he was alive and had his feeling,
She laid upon her back and he was kneeling."

Purcell also wrote 'Pox on you for a Fop' which requires the singers to belch and fart in time.

Novello publishes 'The Aldrich Book of Catches' while Oxford University Press publish 'The Catch Book'.


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