This song is not actually bawdy since there are no sexual references. It is purely scatological. It does not seem to have been printed anywhere and there are no known field collections but it does appear on a number of websites. It seems to be fairly well known purely from oral tradition. The tune is related to a drinking song "Quartermaster Corps". Both songs are parodies on the refrain of the hymn tune "Power in the Blood" which was written by Lewis E. Jones around 1899. Despite the chorus stating that "There were five, five constipated men in the Five Books of Moses", only three are in fact characters in the Pentateuch (the Five Books of Moses) (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy): Cain (Genesis 4) - son of Adam and Eve Moses (Exodus) - brought the tablets of the law down from Mt. Sinai Balaam (Numbers 22) - in his journey with his donkey (ass), the donkey refused to move to avoid an angel (invisible to Balaam) in his path The other two constipated men not in the Pentateuch are: Solomon (1 Kings) - reigned (sat) for forty years Samson (Judges) - destroyed himself and the lords of the Philistines by collapsing the temple Some versions include more than five men including: Noah (Genesis 7) - he went for forty days and forty nights and passed nothing but water. Joshua (Joshua 6) - he blew the walls down King David (1st Samuel 17) - he dropped the big one (Goliath) Titus (not even in the old testament) - "his name speaks for itself" I learned this at one of the Sunhearth dulcimer shop July 4th gatherings when a couple of drunken guys, whose names I can't remember, came trucking arm in arm along the creek singing it. The Fresno State website reports that it was printed in Sing Out! magazine in volume 26 (1978) but the magazine's website doesn't include it in the index of songs.