Speaking of which, I've several times heard it that "Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her" was the bawdiest of all of a raunchy bunch of songs - together with it's slams of the officers it "was tantamount to mutiny to sing it before the last day of the voyage" as a final pumping-out chantey, I believe. Yet, I've never seen even a slightly off-color verse out of many printed. Anyone know if any survived?

Second: As to Hugill's bawdy collection (and I believe there must be one) Legman claimed to have it and to be working on it. This is in a footnote of his stupendous production of the Randolph "Unprintable" books. What he did for the great Randolph, he would do for Hugill. Since Legman's death nothing has surfaced here. Now there would be a research project! Find that manuscript. I wonder whatever happened to the rest of Legman's library, come to that.

I think it's a scandal that there's not a single scholarly collection of bawdy sea songs in the whole world.