The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99452   Message #1982920
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
01-Mar-07 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: Show of Hands (Recipes)
Subject: RE: Show of Hands
Tom Bawcock's Eve (23 December)

A merry place you may believe
Tiz Mouzel 'pon Tom Bawcock's Eve.
To be there then who wouldn't wesh
To sup o' sibm soorts o' fesh

When morgy brath had cleared the path
Comed lances for a fry.
And then us had a bit o' scad
An' starry-gazy pie

As aich we'd clunk
E's health we drunk
in bumpers bremmen high
And when up caame Tom Bawcocks name
We prais'd 'un to the sky

Tom Bawcock set to sea in terrible weather to get food for the starving people of Mousehole, Cornwall. This is celebrated annually on 23 December with a Starry Gazy Pie)