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Thread #6566 Message #1023096
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
22-Sep-03 - 02:16 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Donald Where's Your Trousers / ...Troosers
Subject: RE: Donald Where's Your Trousers
There are two sets of lyrics in the DT:
DONALD WHERE'S YOUR TROUSERS Anglicised text from a record by some outfit called The Irish Rovers.
DONALD WHAUR'S YER TROOSERS? Text from unnamed source.
Neither of the above credit the writer(s).
I've remarked elsewhere that the tune used by Andy Stewart is the same as the one A. L. Lloyd used for Jack Orion (his re-write of Glasgerion); though obviously they are not identical. I don't know which of them got to it first, though, or what it was originally called; but I'm inclined to think that it pre-dates both songs.