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Thread #128760 Message #2885488
Posted By: Jim Carroll
13-Apr-10 - 08:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Definition of 'Totty'.
Subject: RE: BS: Definition of 'Totty'.
The song. Jim Carroll
Tottie (Musa Pedestris)
1 As she walked along the street With her little plates of meat And the summer sunshine falling on her golden Barnet Fair Bright as angels from the skies Were her dark blue Mutton Pies In my East and West Dan Cupid shot a shaft and left it there.
2 She'd a Grecian I suppose And of Hampstead Heath two rows In her Sunny South they glistened like two pretty strings of pearls, Down upon my bread and cheese Did I drop and murmur 'Please Be my storm and strife dear Tottie, O, you darlingest of girls'.
3 Then a bow wow by her side Who 'til then had stood and tried A Jenny Lee to banish, which was on his Jonahs Whale Gave a hydrophobia bark, She cried 'What a Noahs Ark' And right through my rank and riches did my cribbage pegs assail.
4 Ere her bull dog I could stop She had called a ginger pop Who said 'What the Henry Meville do you think you're doing there' ? And I heard as off I slunk, 'Why the fellow's Jumbo's Trunk'. And the Walter Joyce was Totties with the golden Barnet Fair...