Greetings to all, especially Giok and Kitty,

Here is a fuller set of words for the notorious Oggie song:

"Where be goin' to Jagger?"   "I be goin' to Looe!"
"Gor, b****r Jagger, I be goin' there too!"
Oh how happy us will be,
When us gets to the west country
Where the oggies grow on trees,
Gor, b****r Jagger!

Half a pound of flour and marge makes a lovely clagger –
Just enough for you and me - Gor, b****r Jagger!
Oh how happy us will be …etc.

Up the Camborne hill we go, down to Helston Ferry.
Come on Jagger, don't be slow, come on Jagger, hurry!
Oh how happy us will be …etc.

You make fast, I'll make fast, make fast the dinghy.
You make fast, kiss my a**e, make fast the dinghy!
And we'll all go back to oggie-land,
To oggie-land, sweet oggie-land!
And we'll all go back to oggie-land,
Where they don't know sugar from …
Tissu paper, tissue paper, marmalade and jam …Oi! Oi!

Oggie, oggie, oggie! …..Oi! Oi! Oi!


Cornish Crib-sheet:

Jagger    = Mate; buddy (compare "Whacker" in Scouse, or "Acker" in Somerset)
Clagger   = Pastry
Oggie    = a Cornish pasty

The identity of the author is unknown to me: presumably it was someone Cornish and nautical. I learned it from Cyril Tawney in the summer of 1962.

Note for Kitty - Greg Stephens was a freshman in the Autumn term of 1962, when I introduced the Oggie song to Heritage, so he may have learned it there. (Though Greg does have Cornish roots, and may have learned it independently.)

Note for Giok - Like yourself, I used to be a regular attender at Jack and Margaret King's 's Saturday night sessions in the Cellar, C# House and may well have mangled the Oggie song at one of them in 1965. We may even have met: were you one of those who sneaked out to The Engineer for a pint during the interval? And did you dash on down to the Student Prince afterwards for Curly's All-Nighter, and catch the first train home on Sunday morning?   Happy Days!

Wassail!