On the Alan Lomax collection Songs of Seduction ( Rounder Select, 2000 ), there's a bawdy Irish folk song called " The Thrashing Machine " sung by tinker Annie O ' Neil, as recorded in the early 20th Century.

The bawdy role revived her career and The Boys in the Back Room, a song she introduced in the film, became a hit when she recorded it for Decca.

He was jailed in Mona, Utah, for vagrancy and for singing “ Foggy, Foggy Dew ,” which the authorities decided was a bawdy song.

For example, the bawdy sea song " Frigging in the Rigging " was recorded by the punk band Sex Pistols.

During lunch ( Merrily rings the luncheon bell ), Cyril gets tipsy and inadvertently gives away his friends ' identity by singing a bawdy song ( Would you know the kind of maid ).

While teaching at Yale, he and fellow professor Thurman Arnold were riding the New Haven Railroad and were inspired to set the sign Passengers will please refrain ... to Antonin Dvořák's Humoresque # 7, which became a common theme on the train and later spread widely into popular culture as an often bawdy song.

The schools project also explains Sharp's bowdlerisation of some of the song texts, which, at least among English folk songs, often contained erotic double entendres, when not outright bawdy and or violent.

Von Kluck's name was mentioned in a bawdy British army song, which in the original ran:

The song, through its bawdy lyrics, gained popularity in London and elsewhere beyond the Anacreontic Society.

Another feature of the symposia were skolia, drinking songs of a patriotic or bawdy nature, performed competitively with one symposiast reciting the first part of a song and another expected to improvise the end of it.

Ives was once jailed in Mona, Utah, for singing it in public, when authorities deemed it a bawdy song.

Parodies of the movement quickly arose, as well: in Switzerland in 1350 a description survives of a group singing Geisslerlieder fitted with new words, as a bawdy drinking song ; whether the drinkers flogged themselves is not known.

It may also be that Bosch's representation here is a rebuke against traveling minstrels, widely thought of as purveyors of bawdy song and verse.

During World War II, soldiers sang a bawdy song based on " A Knave Is a Knave ," entitled " A Gob Is a Slob.

The Ballad of Eskimo Nell ( Roud 10124 ) is a bawdy rhymed recitation or song that recounts the tale of Deadeye Dick, his accomplice Mexican Pete and a woman they meet on their travels, named Eskimo Nell.

It appeared in bawdy song books compiled by university students in South Africa in the 1940s, so it is at least sixty years old.

Dioneo narrates what is by far the most obscene and bawdy tale in the Decameron.

As is custom among the ten storytellers, Dioneo tells the last and most bawdy tale of the day.

It consists of three unconnected novellas: the first, Lorraine Goes To Livingston, is a bawdy satire of classic British romance novels, the second, Fortune's Always Hiding, is a revenge story involving thalidomide and the third, The Undefeated, is a sly, subtle romance between a young woman dissatisfied with the confines of her suburban life and an aging clubgoer.

Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit ;", or is told the time by Mercutio: " for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon "; and in Hamlet, Hamlet torments Ophelia with a series of sexual puns, viz.

He arrives unannounced, and Anne is horrified when she learns the obese and bawdy " messenger " is really her betrothed.

The act would be returned with unacceptable sections underlined in blue pencil ( possibly giving rise to the term " blue " for a comedian whose act is considered bawdy or smutty ).

The name is derived from early resident Clayton Smith, who is alleged to be the owner of a bawdy house.

A Montgomery resident, she is known for her bawdy sense of humor.

Although the derivation of the term is unknown, honky tonk originally referred to bawdy variety shows in the West ( Oklahoma and Indian Territories and Texas ) and to the theaters housing them.

Among these, Sonnet 151 has been characterised as " bawdy " and is used to illustrate the difference between the spiritual love for the Fair Youth and the sexual love for the Dark Lady.

Jean's discussion of love is considered more philosophical and encyclopedic, but also more misogynistic and bawdy.

In deference to the literary tastes and recurring tropes of the period, it relies on bawdy humour, an impending marriage and a mystery surrounding unknown parentage, but conversely is rich in philosophical digressions, classical erudition and social purpose.

Iago then leads Othello to believe that a bawdy conversation about Cassio's mistress, Bianca, is in fact about Desdemona.

When an inaccurate and bawdy anecdote about Chaloner's death is found to be about James Chaloner, rather than Thomas, Aubrey lets the initial story stand in the text, while marking it as such in a marginal note.

Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom, and readers and theatre-goers have frequently found it difficult to understand how one is meant to respond to the characters.

One of the better known of these collections is The Merry Muses of Caledonia ( the title is not by Burns ), a collection of bawdy lyrics that were popular in the music halls of Scotland as late as the 20th century.

From the 15th century, another classic of Italian erotica is a series of bawdy folk tales called the Facetiae by Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini.

It is a direct antithesis to the Knight's with none of the nobility or heritage of classical mythology, but is instead rollicking, bawdy, comedic and designed to annoy the Knight.

He formed his own group, The Buffalo Bearcats, and over the next five years recorded in a wide variety of musical styles, including both romantic crooning and bawdy jump blues.

Near the end of his life, he edited Roll Me in Your Arms and Blow the Candle Out, two volumes of bawdy songs and lore collected by Vance Randolph ( both 1992 ).

Because of the ribald and often homoerotic quality of his verse, he has been widely censored: " The majority of both the originals and the translations of the raunchy poetry of the bawdy bard, Obeid-e Zakani ... either bowdlerize or omit the " naughty " words with coy little dashes to indicate the lacunae which the knowledgeable reader may furnish by inference.

They would perform short, humorous and bawdy acts and pass a hat or bag among the audience for tips.

Limericks are probably the best known form of nonsense verse, although they tend nowadays to be used for bawdy or straightforwardly humorous, rather than nonsensical, effect.

He had a talent for humorous and bawdy verse, which quickly made the rounds through the city, and sometimes composed mnemonic lyrics to aid his medical studies.

The subject matter of his music may be shocking to modern audiences, but was intended to be bawdy and humorous rather than revolutionary.

Toasts may be solemn, sentimental, humorous, even bawdy or insulting.

They would perform short, humorous and bawdy acts and pass a hat or bag among the audience for tips.