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Thread #107886   Message #2241201
Posted By: EBarnacle
21-Jan-08 - 08:29 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Four Nights Drunk (Steeleye Span)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Four night drunk -Steeleye span
In the early 70's, Oscar Brand did four nights drunk at a pier concert at South Street. I contributed the following:

The other night when I got home,
As drunk as I could be,
I saw another man in bed,
Where no man ought to be.

I said unto my wife,
I said unto she--
What's that man a doin' there,
Where no man ought to be?

She said: Ye damn fool, Ye stupid fool,
As you can plainly see,
'Tis nothing but a bathtub,
Me mother sent to me.

Many miles have I travelled,
A thousand miles or more,
But such plumbing on a bathtub,
I never saw before.

Oscar began using it, attributing it to "Anon." Thus I entered the canon of trad and anon.