Curiosity

DESCRIPTION: "While lying in my bed a night or two ago," the singer feels a pain and sees a flea biting him. He asks it why; it says "Just for her cury-ury-ury-ury, cury-ury-uriosity." He gets in trouble for curiosity about his wife's clothes and brother's wife
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1992 (Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk)
KEYWORDS: bug wife clothes family adultery
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk, #67, "Curiosity" (1 text)
Roud #10693
NOTES [50 words]: Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk thinks this is the same as a song called "Curiosity" recorded by "Little Tich" in 1910. They do have the line "cury-ury-ury-ury, cury-ury-uriosity" in common -- but nothing else. Possibly one is an extreme rewrite of the other, but I would not call them the same song. - RBW
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File: Hows067

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