There Was a Priest, the Dirty Beast

DESCRIPTION: "There was a priest, the dirty beast, Whose name was Alexander," who sleeps with "the Gypsy Queen, whose face was black as charcoal, But in the dark he missed his mark." The child, when born, is black and has exceptional sexual organs but no anus
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Morgan/Green-RugbySongs)
KEYWORDS: bawdy sex children
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Morgan/Green-RugbySongs, p. 33, "There Was a Priest, the Dirty Beast" (1 text)
Roud #10253
File: RuSo033

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