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Thread #65362   Message #1077802
Posted By: Billy Weeks
22-Dec-03 - 12:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: …Many Pimples on a Pound of Pickled Pork
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pimples on a pound of pickled pork
Ah, no! It'snot a songbook but a multiply cross-indexed-index.   But for tracking down songs (of this type), their original singers, songwriters, publishers, published titles, dates etc, there's nothing so far to beat it. The original cover price (OUP) in 1998 was £35, which I think is not bad- and I believe it is still in print. Iincidentally, Kilgarriff has a web site carrying regular additions and corrections.

Cheaper still, if you are in UK (I don't know how things work in the States) insist that one of your local public libraries adds it to their reference shelf.

If you like this kindof daft song, you really must hear Ernie Mayne some time! Not much of him on modern CDs, but his time will come.