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Thread #28467   Message #1809665
Posted By: Billy Weeks
14-Aug-06 - 02:48 PM
Thread Name: origins of 'Two Ravens'
Subject: RE: origins of 'Two Ravens'
I heard a Royal Engineers warrant officer sing this to the tune of 'The Old Hundredth' in 1949:

Three big black crows sat on a tree
They were as black as black could be;
One big black crow said to the other:
'You're blacker than me, you dirty black bugger'.

They flew across a lofty plain
And found a horse just newly slain;
They setteld on the poor brute's head
And pecked his eyes out, one by one.

As I was walking through the wood
I shit myself just where I stood;
I called for help, but no help came
And so I shit myself again.

Yes, I am aware that I've lowered the tone with this horrible lyric, but I did collect it with my own bare hands.