Organ Grinder, The

DESCRIPTION: The singer in successive stanzas has sex with his girl friend in various places, each more outlandish than the last.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1948 (Bronner/Eskin-FolksongAlivePart2)
KEYWORDS: bawdy humorous sex
FOUND IN: US(MA,So,SW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Cray-EroticMuse, pp. 341-344, "The Organ Grinder" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Randolph/Legman-RollMeInYourArms I, p. 369-370, "My Little Organ Grinder" (1 text, 1 tune); II, pp. 592-594, "My Little Organ Grinder" (2 texts)
Bronner/Eskin-FolksongAlivePart2 65, "My Little Organ Grinder" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #18789
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Old Horny Kebri-O" (form)
NOTES [44 words]: There was a pop song of the 1860s, "The Organ-Grinder," beginning, "You see before you a young man Who mourns both night and day." (Found, e.g., in Dime-Song-Book #22, p. 44.) This obviously is not that; furthermore, it does not appear to be derived from it. - RBW
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File: EM341

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