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GUEST,Conrad Bladey "peasant" Cob O'Coaling / Cob-a-Coaling for Bonfire Night (15) Cob O'Coaling 28 Oct 00


Lancashire

We come cob o'coaling for Bonfire time,
Your coal and your money we hope you'll enjoy,
Fol-di-day, fol-di-day, fol-di-diddle-i-do-day,
Down in yon cellar, there's an old um-ber-ella,
And in yonder corner ther's an old pepper pot (or box)
Pepper pot, pepper pot morning till neet, 
If you give us nowt, we'steal nowt,
But wish you good neet!-^^

(Oldham, Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, Oxford, Clarendon,1961.)


A chumping,wooding or cob coaling chant used when collecting burnables for the fire.
 


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