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Thread #67154 Message #1120416
Posted By: Flash Company
21-Feb-04 - 10:44 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Old Johnny Bucker /Johnny Booker
Subject: ADD Version: Old Johhny Bucker
I alwys understood that this was a Yorkshire song. Here goes anyway
Old Johnny Bucker he lived by himself Aslong as he had perfect health, Then he took himsif a wife To look after him for the rest of his life
Ch, And it's I do believe, I will believe, Old Johnny Bucker was a rare old bugger And a rare old bugger was he.
Old Mrs Bucker she had a bad leg And the doctor ordered her to bed He told Johnny when he came in That he'd have to rub his wife's bad leg with gin!
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Old Johnny Bucker he thought it was a sin To rub his wifes bad leg with gin He took the gin and poured it down his throttle And he rubbed her bad leg with the bottle!
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Old Johnny Bucker went walking one day Down by the river he chanced to stray He fell in and he began to shout But there was no bugger there for to pull the bugger out
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Can't where i first heard it but a guy named Frank O'Reilly used to sing it