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Thread #71174   Message #1496216
Posted By: Tradsinger
30-May-05 - 04:03 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Villikins & his Dinah: songs using tune
Also to the same tune we have "All jolly fellows that follow the plough" - well known in these parts.

My mate Charlie sings a cracking song to this tune called "The Back to Front Song" which starts:

'Tis seven years come muck-spreading, I forgets it quite well
A fair pretty maid in a cottage did dwell
Alone with her parents, she dwelt all serene
And her age was bright red and her hair seventeen.

You get the idea.

On the bawdy side, we have:

There was an old woman in Gloucester did dwell
The dirty old woman I knew her quite well

Which is a version of "Blinded by S**t".

By the way, Snuffy, tell me more about the Gloucester Molecatcher - is it the song I know as the (Manchester) Molecather?

Gwilym