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Thread #123592   Message #2722745
Posted By: John MacKenzie
13-Sep-09 - 05:22 AM
Thread Name: Who was he Football Crazy about?
Subject: RE: Who was he Football Crazy about?
The version I learned has the following verse in it.

His wife says she'll divorce him
She'' mak him look a sicht
If he disnae keep frae fitba kickin'
In the bed at nicht
Fur he cries her Chairlie Tully
And ither names sae droll.
Last nicht he kicked her oot the bed
And shouted IT'S A GOAL!


The allusion to Charlie Tully puts it firmly in the realms of association football, or soccer, as they now like to call it.

JM