The song "This old man, he played one" "He played nick nack on my drum" "With a nick nack, paddy whack, give a dog a bone" "This old man goes rolling home" continuing through ten verses until the old man "played ten" on some part of the singer`s anatomy or possession has certainly been sung by the folks, especially children, in Britain ever since Adam was a boy. Also an interesting question. Why do we say someone is in a "paddy" when they are not in the best of tempers?
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