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Thread #2943   Message #13536
Posted By: rechal
30-Sep-97 - 12:25 AM
Thread Name: help w/ Irish or Scottish song (7 nights drunk)
Subject: RE: help w/ Irish or Scottish folk song
This song is sometimes called "Cabbage head" in Appalachian versions. The version I know went something like this:

I came home the other night as drunk as I could be
I saw a hat sittin' on the table where my hat oughter be
So I says to my wife, my pretty little wife, "Won't you tell me please
What's this hat a-doin' here where my hat oughter be?"
She said, "You blind fool, you drunken fool, Can't you never see?
Why, that is only a bedpan that my mother gave to me."
Well, I've traveled this wide world all over 'n some crazy things I've saw
But a bedpan marked size seven and three-quarters I never seen before.

It goes on to the horse in the stable, which she insists is a milk cow, and I forget what tips him off here, and then it eventually ends up in the bedroom, where the wife's lover is sleeping. She insists that her lover's head is a cabbage head, and I forget what kind of chaos from this ensues. But try searching DT for "cabbage head" and see where it takes you.