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GUEST,Mick Pearce (MCP) Lyr Req: Mick Stick - Boyne Water (49) RE: Lyr Req: Mick Stick - Boyne Water 10 Feb 18


Interesting thread.

The song has a Roud number (24541), though only one entry in the online index. It's a small fragment in the Bayard collection, which you can hear on youtube: Charles S. Brink at 14:49.

The fragment has:

  My Uncle Dick, he took a stick,
  And he killed five hundred Irishmen,
  At the Battle of the Boiling Waters.


A Great War Forum, in a thread on My Old Man's A Dustman parodies, has this post from MikeyH (Lieut-Colonel):


"A playground ditty we would sing in the 1950's in Lancashire ran something like this:-



Oh my Uncle Ben he killed ten men

At the batle of Boiling Water

One lay here and one lay there

And one lay round the corner

One poor soul with a bullet up his hole

Lay crying out for water

A man came by and pissed in his eye

At the battle of Boiling Water.



Interesting to see similar lyrics in the 'Battle of Mons' quoted above."



Mick


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