You just sent me on one of the oddest paths to gathering research on something I've ever taken. :P The song reminded me of a much more recent one, Jonathan Cou

You just sent me on one of the oddest paths to gathering research on something I've ever taken. :P The song reminded me of a much more recent one, Jonathan Coulton's "First of May", which I decided to look up the inspiration of. From https://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/First_of_May https://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/First_of_May: > * The chorus is a variation on an old folk/schoolyard rhyme, "Hooray, Hooray, the first of May! Outdoor fucking starts today!" In an April 10, 2007 blog post, JoCo credited John Hodgman with the idea for the song, and mentions that the modern dirty rhyme derives from an older, traditional dirty rhyme. Commenters Mike and Bry tracked the reference down to a poem in Another Almanac of Words at Play by Willard R. Espy. > * The poem which Espy cites, in turn, derives from ancient Pagan customs celebrating fertility on the eve of Beltane, the Celtic name for the month of May. So, there's the exact cultural reference? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane Incidentally, May is also International Masturbation Month for entirely unrelated reasons.