Necktie's Up Behind

DESCRIPTION: "When you attend a party and gyrate with the girls... oh, that painful feeling when suddenly you find The naked truth revealing: your necktie's up behind." When sparking with a girl, or otherwise compromised, you will often find your necktie up behind
AUTHOR: probably Thomas P. Westendorf (but in a form so different from Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric's that there was almost certainly a deliberate rewrite)
EARLIEST DATE: 1891 (Westendorf's verstion printed in Wehman's Collection of Songs #32, according to Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric)
KEYWORDS: humorous nonballad courting dancing clothes
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric 162, "Necktie's Up Behind" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11357
File: Brne162

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