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Thread #29785 Message #1012282
Posted By: Joe_F
03-Sep-03 - 06:09 PM
Thread Name: Bawdy music :-)
Subject: RE: Bawdy music :-)
A book that has some rather out-of-the-way things in it, as well as many of the old standards, is _The Dirty Song Book_ by Jerry Silverman (Stein and Day, 1982).
Oscar Brand collected the songs in his LP series _Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads_ in a book of the same name (Dorchester Press, 1960). Inevitably in view of the date, they are somewhat bowdlerized, but it should not be hard to guess, e.g., what belongs in place of "hips" in "No hips at all".
I dare say both these are out of print, but copies must still be floating around.