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Thread #80621 Message #1470762
Posted By: GUEST,Bob Coltman
25-Apr-05 - 10:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: 'Biography of a Fly' Trad. Bawdy Song
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Biography of a Fly' Trad. Bawdy Song
Sorry, I'll try again.
This is well known among bawdy singers as "Two Little Gnats." I learned my version 1958-59, Hanover NH from a guy named Bill Edgerton. It has a chorus:
One was black and the other was blue, One had rings on his tra la loo, The other had rings around his ringy dingy doo [or ding] Hi ho the derry O.
Or words to that effect. Versions vary. Lots of verses. I'll try to see if I can scare up any, if I still have the songsheet around someplace.