Boyibus Kissibus

DESCRIPTION: Macaronic pseudo-latin chant about courting. "Boyibus kissibus Sweet/Priti Girliorum, Girlibus likabus, Wanty some moreum." Perhaps continues "Pater puellibus [i.e. her father] enter parlorum Kickabus boyibus exitus doorum."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1924 (from a yearbook dated to that year, according to the Formalist Saurian web site)
KEYWORDS: humorous courting father foreignlanguage | pseudo-Latin
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 65, "Boyibus Kissibus" (1 text)
Roud #25498
NOTES [23 words]: I'm not sure this is a song, but it is so often quoted that I am sure it is traditional. There are many variations and additions, too. - RBW
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File: KSUC065B

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