Footprints on the Dashboard

DESCRIPTION: A father asks if the singer was the one who did the pushin', and left footprints on the dashboard upside down. The singer replies it was he, and now he has trouble passing water, "so I guess we're even all around."
AUTHOR: unknown (music by Antonin Dvorak)
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (music published 1894)
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous disease sex
FOUND IN: Australia US(MA,So,SW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Cray-EroticMuse, pp. 239-240, "Footprints on the Dashboard" (1 text, tune cited)
Randolph/Legman-RollMeInYourArms II, pp. 702-703, "Footprints on the Dashboard" (4 texts)
DT, HUMORESQ*
Roud #27847
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fire Ship" (plot) and references there
cf. "Humoresque" (tune)
NOTES [18 words]: This is sometimes incorporated bodily into "Humoresque." - EC (As see, e.g., the Digital Tradition version - RBW)
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File: EM239

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