Please, Don't Burn Our Shithouse Down

DESCRIPTION: The singer pleads for his/her outhouse, chronicling the family's woes, and promises to pay [tax?]. Alternately, lists all the venereal diseases in the family, or says that there will be no choice left for sanitary functions except the yard
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1733 (Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius)
KEYWORDS: bawdy family humorous scatological
FOUND IN: Australia Canada Britain(England,Scotland) Ireland US(All) New Zealand
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Cray-EroticMuse, pp. 109-111, "Please, Don't Burn Our Shithouse Down" (5 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Legman-RollMeInYourArms I, pp. 191-195, "Finest Fucking Family" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear, p. 167, "Times Is Hard" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Albert Smith and Ian Smith, _Mosquito Pathfinder_, 2003 republished as Lewis Brandon, Albert Smith, Ian Smith, _Night Flyer/Mosquito Pathfinder: Night Operations in World War II_, Stackpole Military History Series, 2011, pp. 246-247, "(no title)" (1 short text, sung on British air bases in the 1940s)
Roud #10270
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "My God, How the Money Rolls In"
cf. "My Daddy's a Delver of Dykes"
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Finest Fucking Family in the Land
My Father Was Hung for Sheep-Stealing (as a Horse Thief)
File: EM109

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