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GUEST,David Allison, Hobart, Tasmania
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Origins: Two sons were brothers
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RE: Origins: Two sons were brothers
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28 Oct 23
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The story I heard as a young boy was from my Grandfather Donald Munro the Publican of the Plough Inn, Inverness, Scotland. He knew the recorder of the song a Donald Dallas who was a teacher at the Inverness Academy. The song is a parody on the church 'Presenter' who job it was to sing the first line of the the 'Psalms' to the semi-literate congregation. The version I knew and used to sing as a party piece is: There was a man who had the twa sons And these twa sons were brothers Josepheus was the name of the one And Banquius the name of the other Now Josepheus was a weekid man We'll ner see hem no more He stole his Faither's coffin lid To mak a hen-house door Now these twa brothers bought a coat They bought it on the Monday Josepheus wore it through the week And Banquius on the Sunday Now it happened in the course of tiam That these twa brothers diyed They burried Josepheus on his back And Banquius on his siade
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