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Thread #15557   Message #140056
Posted By: A. Non
23-Nov-99 - 04:58 PM
Thread Name: Jokes turned into songs...
Subject: RE: Jokes turned into songs...
An example is given and many others cited from 'The Greater Book of the Bawdy Celts' in the article available in the thread BS: Galore of Celtica. Non-Celtic is "The Dumb Maid", or "Dumb, Dumb, Dumb". We have also "The Burning of Old Simon", (Widow of Ephesus modernized) "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife", "The Friar in the Well", "The Wee Cooper of Fife" (Wife wrapt in Morrel's Skin), "The Boy and the Mantle", and on and on.