Hello Folks,

As ever Steve is pretty much on the target. I discuss this briefly in my book 'Desire Drink and Death' pp. 242-3. (Get it from a public library if you cannot afford it!) There does seem to be an earlier set of crawling worms in song.

In the song 'Lumps of Pudding' (Pills to Purge Melancholy, 6 p.300), we read, 'She hung them up upon a pin / The fat run out and the maggots crept in.'