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Thread #72397   Message #2741444
Posted By: Jack Campin
08-Oct-09 - 04:04 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Onion Songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Onion Songs
1920s Edinburgh childrens song:

I love a sauasage
A Cawperative sausage
You can tell it's Cawperative by the smell
When you fry it with an ingan
You can hear the ingan singin
Mary, ma Scots bluebell.

(tune: Harry Lauder's "Mary My Scots Bluebell"; "ingan" = onion; "Cawperative" = Co-operative, the chain of nonprofit retail outlets for the working classes opened across the UK in the 1860s).