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Thread #39607   Message #563132
Posted By: GUEST,maire
02-Oct-01 - 12:28 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: women's drinking songs
Subject: Lyr Add: CUSHIE BUTTERFIELD^^^
You might consider 'Cushie Buttermilk'. It may be in the database, but if it isn't, here's goes:

CUSHIE BUTTERFIELD

I's a broken-hearted keelman and ower-head (sic) in love,
With a young lass in Gateside and I call her my dove,
Her name's Cushie Butterfield and she sells yellow clay,
And her cousin is a muck-man and they call him Tom Grey.

Chorus:
She's a big lass and a bonnie lass and she likes her beer,
And they call her Cushie Butterfield and I wish she were here.

Her eyes is like two holes in a blanket burnt through
Her brows in a morning would spyen a young cow,
And when I hear her shoutin' 'Will ye buy any clay?'
Like a candyman's trumpet, it steals my heart away.

Chorus:^^^