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Thread #63297   Message #1027084
Posted By: GUEST,Leslie Butler
01-Oct-03 - 07:12 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: I've just given birth to a heifer
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I've just given birth to a heifer
Second & third lines of first verse should be: "of pride and of milk I am full/ but it's sad to relate that my lacteal state"

And it's a cast iron syringe, not a plastic one, both for historical veracity and for added pathos.

I learned it from the late John Knight donkeys ago and he reckoned it appeared in the Croydon Advertiser in the 40's.
Regards all