Thanks all. Between the few versions I saw posted here (under different names) and listening to the track over and over, I was able to get almost all the lyrics from this Sean O'Neill recording. Previously I could only understand about 50% of them. I'm only missing a couple phrases now. Here's the (almost complete) Sean O'Neill version from the 1976 Bay Records "Live at the Plough and Stars" release: --------------------------------------- Johnny Daddle Dum Oh there was a little man, And he had a little lass And he [...............], N' ridin on the grass Chorus Johnny Daddle Dum, Daddle Dum Oh, Johnny Daddle Dum-a-dee Well he rowed and he rowed, And he came to a brook And he spied a little fisherman, A fishin' with his hook Chorus O, fisherman, O, fisherman, And how dee-a-dee Have you a little cod fish, You can spare me? Chorus "Oh, no" cried the fisherman, The well has been dra Been fishin' all day, And I've only caught a crab He got a little hook, And he slipped it up his bone Then he put o'er his shoulder, And he fucked off home He couldn't find a hole, And he couldn't find a dish So he stuffed it in the pot, Where maidens have the piss In the middle of the night, the maid she got a fight She had the [.....], [............................] Well she sat on the bowl, and she began to grunt The dirty little bastard, He got her by the "Johnny Daddle dum...etc" O master, O master, As sure as you were born The Divil's in the piss pot, stickin' up his horn Well one grabbed a brush, And the other grabbed a broom And they beat the little Bastard, All around the room Well they beat him in the middle, And they beat him in the side And they beat him in the back, Till the poor fucker died Well the moral of the story, And the moral is this Don't put your crabs, Where the maidens have the piss
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