The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108447   Message #2255901
Posted By: SeaCanary
07-Feb-08 - 10:04 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: There once was a lad called Aladdin...
Subject: Tune Req: There once was a lad called Aladdin...
Anyone know where I can find the melody for a song called Aladdin? I'm told it's English (probably West Country).

There once was a lad called Aladdin, who had a magic lamp;
He took it off a mat'lot who was two feet up a tramp.
He took it off a mat'lot, to see what he could get -
But he rubbed and he rubbed and he rubbed and he rubbed
And he ain't got bugger-all yet.

(Chorus 1)
Sing! Fa-la-la-la-la, fa-la-la-la-lee, sixteen annas one rupee,
Make her fast to a sycamore tree;
Cor, bugger, janner.

(Chorus 2)
You may pass, kiss my arse, make fast the dinghy.
You may pass, kiss my arse, make fast the dinghy.
And we'll all go back to Oggie-land, to Oggie-land, to Oggie-land,
Yes we'll all go back to Oggie-land,
Where they can't tell sugar from tissue-paper-tissue-paper-marmalade-or-jam.