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Ironmule Lyr Req: 'O Tommy Come Tickle Me' (8) Lyr Req: 'O Tommy Come Tickle Me' 19 Mar 04


I've tried searching every variation of this I can think of, both in the Digitrad and using google, and the best result I got lead me right back to my own book.

I have a copy of "Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife", 651 instrumental folk tunes of Pennsylvania. #539 is a variant of "The Campbells are Coming" and is titled as above. The two lines to the lyric are quoted:

O Tommy come tickle me, I'll show you where;

Just under my navel there's a great bunch of hair;


I can see in my minds eye a kilted Highland Lassie in a sweet voice singing this song, but,,,,,,,

I've been told that the words are in the unexpurgated edition of "The Merry Muses of Caledonia" by Robert Burns, but I e-mailed a bookstore clerk today about the Hyde Park NY, reproduction of the book and she didn't find those lines in there. Can someone help with either the song itself, or further info on the different editions of "Merry Muses"?

Jeff Smith


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