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Thread #80010   Message #1567559
Posted By: Billy Weeks
21-Sep-05 - 07:57 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Buttercup Joe - how old is this song?
Subject: RE: Origins: Buttercup Joe - how old is this song?
Gadaffi, Tony Barker told me quite firmly that he had a cracked and unplayable copy of the Eclipse version of 'Old Sow' and 'Fly be on the Turmut'. As an Eclipse, it would probably be a 7" disc, though they did issue 10" as well. I'll ask Tony for further details.

Incidentally, 'Sarey', too, has a strong music hall flavour:

She's big and she's beautiful
She's fat and she's fair
Like the buttercups and the daisies
That grow in the air...

- and with the deliciously unacceptable:

Oi'd rather have Sarey than farmer's fat pig.

Try that on a mixed audience!