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Thread #134950 Message #3077348
Posted By: JeffB
18-Jan-11 - 02:53 PM
Thread Name: Folk songs from W Wilts and NE Somerset
Subject: RE: Folk songs from W Wilts and NE Somerset
Sharp collected the first verse of Gossip Joe from Thomas Blunt of Blagdon on 29/4/1905. The other verses here have been supplied from other versions.
With two or more singers who don't mind hamming it up it works well as a comic conversation.
1 Good morning Gossip Joe, where have you been a-walking? Good morning Gossip Joe, what have you been a-talking? For I have got for you, for you, for you, for you, for you, for you, I've a budget full of talking, oh Gossip Joe.
2 Our dog's gone to the copse and I can't tell where to find him - [ x2 ] Leave him alaone, he'll soon come home, he'll soon come home, he'll soon come home and bring his tail behind him, oh Gossip Joe.
3 Our pig he is not well - Pray tell me what's the matter? [ x2 ] Oh it was but the other day, the other day, the other day he ate the wooden platter, oh Gossip Joe.
4 Our duck she swallowed a snail (quack quack), now isn't that a wonder [ x2 ] for the horns grew out of her tail, her tail, her tail, her tail, her tail, her tail and split her rump asunder, oh Gossip Joe.
5 Our cow she had a calf beneath the parlour window. [ x2 ] If it hadn't been for the bull's hulloa, the bull's hulloa, the bull's hulloa she wouldn't have had her labour, oh Gossip Joe.
6 Let's to the alehouse go and wash down all our sorrows. [ x2 ] I'll tell you all my trouble and grief, my trouble and grief, my trouble and grief, and we'll meet again tomorrow, of Gossip Joe.