Sing Vol 5 no3 Eric Winter publication ~ has Johnny Bigger 1960

Taken from the singing of Cecil Pickett, Oxfordshire by John Hasted

John Hasted says ~ better known as a folk original and not music hall ~ calls it a nonsense song ~ maybe with links to Johnny Boker or Johnny Booker

" Old Johnny Bigger went out one day, his horse fell down and cart ran away
Old Johnny Bigger he shouted STOP and he fell from the bottom of the hill to the top

And I do believe ~ that Old Johnny Bigger was gay old digger and a gay old digger was he"

4 more full verses noted ~ digger? maybe he was grave digger?

Ray