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Thread #108112   Message #2248496
Posted By: GUEST,Edthefolkie
30-Jan-08 - 06:58 AM
Thread Name: What did your Dad used to sing?
Subject: Lyr Add: THE OLD SOW
About the only thing I remember my Dad (b. 1910) singing was

There was an old man and he had an old sow
    (snort) sow (whistle) sow (raspberry) Hi diddley dow,
There was an old man and he had an old sow,
    (repeat sound effects)
    Oh, Susanna's a funniful man
    (repeat sound effects)
    Susanna's a funniful man.

This old sow had three little pigs (etc).
They tried to get over the garden wall (etc).
They couldn't get over the garden wall (etc).

When I was little he used to reduce me to hysteria with this. I always thought he'd made it up...but it turns out it's a pukka (music hall?) song which is even on the Interweb. However my Dad seems to have learned a slightly corrupted Bourne, Lincs version.

He knew about Plough Monday too! I do wish he'd met Bob Copper - he'd have got on with him like a house on fire.