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Thread #93488   Message #2917200
Posted By: Joe_F
30-May-10 - 11:40 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Four Prominent Bastards (Ogden Nash)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: /Add: The Three Bastards/Four Bastards
I have never seen it in a collection, either. It was published as a booklet (15 pp.): Four prominent so and so's: lyrics by Ogden Nash, music by Robert Armbruster, illustrations by Otto Soglow; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. The Houghton Library at Harvard has it.

In addition to changing the tune, Oscar Brand left out the fourth bastard & stanza, thereby depriving the song of its full malice.

We are not exactly back to 1934, but it is fair to say that the song is once again topical.