Caviar Comes from Virgin Sturgeon

DESCRIPTION: This quatrain ballad extols the virtues of caviar as an aphrodisiac; reports that the singer's parents were a lighthouse keeper and a mermaid; and details the sex lives of various denizens of the deep
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1934
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous animal
FOUND IN: Australia Canada Britain(England) US(MW,So,SW)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Cray-EroticMuse, pp. 240-243, "Caviar Comes from the Virgin Sturgeon" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Johnson-BawdyBalladsAndLustyLyrics, pp. 124-126, "The Ballad of The Virgin Sturgeon" (1 text)
Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear, pp. 172-173, "Caviar Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Morgan/Green-RugbySongs, pp. 130-131, "The Virgin Sturgeon" (1 text)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 157, "The Virgin Sturgeon" (1 text)
DT, VRGNSTRG* VRGNSTR2* VRGNSTR3*
Roud #10131
RECORDINGS:
Anonymous singers, "The Keeper of the Eddystone Light" (on Unexp1)
Charley Drew, "Caviar Comes from Virgin Sturgeon" (Party 6A/Musicraft Party 6A/Gala 2101, n.d. but probably 1939-1940)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Reuben and Rachel" (tune)
cf. "The Keeper of the Eddystone Light" (theme)
NOTES [31 words]: While the recording on "The Unexpurgated Folk Songs of Men" is [listed as] "Eddystone Light," it's mostly this song. Of course, they overlap so heavily that the distinction is fishy. - PJS
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File: EM240

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