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Jack Horntip	Origins: Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye (100* d)	RE: Origins: Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye	02 Sep 13
Hello everyone, It seems that there is an older Scottish "Cat Piddle" song c1780. Below are both pro-Hanoverian and Jacobite versions: xm THE FLOWERS OF EDINBURGH Burns is not quite correct in his assertion that the Scotish Muses were all Jacobites. A song beginning "The cats hae kittled [piddled] in Charlies's wig" is certainly the wretched effusion of a Scotish Hanoverian CKS NB Our ancient Border rhyme runs thus Tillielute tillielute tillielute of Bowelaw Our cat's kittled [piddled] in Archie's wig Tillielute tillielute tillielute of Bowelaw Four of them naked and four of them clad I am afraid the Scots Hanoverian had been but a plagiary after all MS Note by Sir Walter Scott in 1821 Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books?id=XiJMAAAAcAAJ&dq=%22cat%20kittled%22%20%20song&pg=PA109#v=onepage&q=%22cat%20kittled%22%20%20song&f=false Title: Illustrations of the lyric poetry and music of Scotland(1853) Editor: William Stenhouse

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