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Thread #91175   Message #2491787
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
12-Nov-08 - 11:44 AM
Thread Name: The Genre of Funny English Songs
Subject: RE: The Genre of Funny English Songs
"Liverpool Lullaby" by Stan Kelly (aka Stan Kelly-Bootle). Recorded by Judy Collins in 1967 on In My Life. It's a straight lullaby until a line late in the song that cracks me up: "and I'll buy your daddy a brewery".

I think it deviates from being a lullaby a lot sooner than that.

"Sure you are a mucky kid,
Dirty as a dustbin lid.
And when he hears the things that you did
You'll get a belt from yor Da"

Child cruelty!