My Dad came from Limerick, in Eire - Southern Ireland.

He used to sing this, and play it on his harmonica.
Sometimes he played the spoons when he sang it to my brother and I.

"The cat had a gum boil,
A toothache,
A bellyache,
A pain in his left leg,
And a pimple on its nose."

He never used to sing the chorus.
I believe that his Dad used to sing it to him and his brother and sisters, when they were very young.
My grandfather had died not long before, and I think that it must have hurt him too much.

I had always wondered what the chorus was, but now I know.

"Daddy when you die will you leave me the fidle-o,
Daddy when you die' will you leave me the bow!"

My father died many years ago, and I will always miss him.