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Posted By: GUEST,Infrequent but always polite guest
18-Jul-15 - 07:24 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Irish Hop Pole Puller
Subject: Lyr Req: The Irish Hop Pole Puller
Hi all, does anyone have the lyrics to The Irish Hop Pole Puller please? It's Roud #1709.
First line: I'm Coster Joe from down our street
Chorus: She was a modern laundry girl was blue-eyed Mary Fuller, until she went and eloped from Kent with an Irish hop pole puller.
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library entry:
http://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S363785
British Library sound archive (Pop Maynard singing and, alas, coughing):
http://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Reg-Hall-Archive/025M-C0903X0486XX-0600V0
Thank you for your time.