Hhmm... Years and years ago I learned this wonderful song from an old scratcy record and took the words down in old-fashioned shorthand. Fine, it creates an outline of the "sound" of the words but when I cam to transcribe them, that lovely first line of Verse 8 appeared to be "he's as hot and as bothered as a life's a lemon durmadon" and for years I actually sang that until I found the correct words in a book, viz "he's as hot and as bothered as a live salamander, madam".

I like Lemon Durmadon - wonder what one is?

LN :)