Ever wanted to know the correct words to Roll Me Over? Wondered where the melody of Sweet Betsy from Pike came from? Ed Cray ranges from The Cod Fish Song to Hallelujah I'm a Bum in a tireless quest to answer such questions and restore bawdy to an esteemed place in our folk music canon.

Extensively revised and including forty more songs than its predecessor, the second edition of The Erotic Muse is a unique collection of bawdy and even forbidden American folksongs.