VII - XXVI - XII ? 7 - 26 - 12 ? . What the hell does THAT mean? . EDIT: mrfisher and I must have typing at the same time. Posting times 2 minutes apart.
I'd say suggestive songs go back more than 100 years to sea shanties and work songs and other rowdy songs sung in pubs and so on. . "It's me, it's me, I'm back from the sea," said Barnacle Bill the Sailor. "I just got paid and I want to get laid," said Barnacle Bill the Sailor. (and other less obvious, merely suggestive songs). . Robert Burns, who wrote the famous line "Man's inhumanity to man" in 1784 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_inhumanity_to_man also wrote lots of suggestive and bawdy songs: http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com/poetry/poets/nine.html . The ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians left records (stele, heiroglyphs) of double entendre, puns, anagrams, ... but no indication of which, if any, were songs to be sung to popular tunes by minstrels ... or drunken sailors.
It made the charts (in the UK) in 1792 but some say it was just a poor cover of the 1657 version by John Playford. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_Up_Your_Beaver . Some people hear "Tip up your hat." Others hear something else.
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