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galt@csulb.edu 28 Feb 97 - 02:22 AM
Bert Hansell 28 Feb 97 - 08:44 AM
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Subject: winkle pick song
From: galt@csulb.edu
Date: 28 Feb 97 - 02:22 AM

Wonder if anyone knows a song from the British Music Hall tradition about a winkle (shore snail) pick... I heard it at a Seattle Sea Shanty festival back in about 1978, didn't tape it, and have tried to find it ever since... Thanks... chuck


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Subject: RE: winkle pick song
From: Bert Hansell
Date: 28 Feb 97 - 08:44 AM

Here's all that I can remember from the way that my Mother used to sing it.

I know she used to sing a first verse about saving her money to go and buy the winkles in the first place.

She used to tell us how, when she was a kid she used to take all of the winkles out of their shells first before eating them. Then her brothers used to come along and take them from her.

Picking all the big ones out

Picking all the big ones out

You should see face all wrinkled

when I saw my penn'oth o' winkles

All the big ones gone

it made me holler and shout

There was old Aunt Rose

with her finger up her nose

Picking all the big ones out.


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