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Thread #168479 Message #4070221
Posted By: GUEST,Mike Yates
31-Aug-20 - 05:24 AM
Thread Name: Song - Johnny Bradbury
Subject: RE: Song - Johnny Bradbury
While we are talking about the Cantwell Family. Here are three fragments of song that I recorded from them in the '60's. Can anyone help with their identification, please?
Three Fragments
1.On one bright and Sunday morning I was picking mush-a-rooms When some great big clumsy something Came and stole my pantaloons
Take my clothes up to the grubber And my shoes to Uncle Sam When I’m dead and gone, dear mother On my tombstone spread some jam
Roud 23519. In English slang, the word ‘grubber’ can means either a workhouse, a tramp, or else a market-trader. ‘Uncle Sam’ probably refers to a pawnbroker.
2. A kettle will gaily sing, bubbling over with joy The children shout with glee as they climb upon my knee Before everything seems so jolly even the missus keeps chatting The liver and sausages in the pan and bursting their sides a-laughing
3. Oh I can’t sleep on me right side And I can’t sleep on me left For the right side is the right side To sleep on at night I can’t sleep on the other side With me face towards the wall And as long as there’s a little drop of scrumpy in the house I can’t sleep at all