The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19426   Message #2609578
Posted By: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
12-Apr-09 - 05:53 AM
Thread Name: Penguin: The Old Man From Lee
Subject: RE: Penguin: The Old Man From Lee
REFRESH!

Anyone know the words to the version to:
'The Old Man who Came Over the Sea'

That Ann Briggs sings on her album of erotic folk songs 'The Bird in the Bush'?

The penultimate line runs:

"Me Mother she told me to show him what to do.
Eh! But I'll not 'ave 'im!
Me Mother she told me to show him what to do,
but the silly old cod couldn't learn how to screw!
With his long grey beard, with his long grey beard,
a' shiverin' and shakin'."

I heard this version a short while ago, but can't recall all the verses.