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Posted By: Zebedee
15-Oct-00 - 09:49 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Rawtenstall Annual Fair
Subject: Lyr Add: RAWTENSTALL ANNUAL FAIR
Mike Harding's book: Folk Songs of Lancashire, includes a further additional verse:

Roll up! Roll up! See the bearded lady
See the lovely lady dressed in nothin' but her beard
In went the lads and, ee but she were bold
'Cos she'd nothin' but her whiskers on
To keep her from the cold
Well little Ben Brown he bent down
And he tied the lasses' whiskers to the chair
Then he shouted FIRE FIRE!!!
Just to give the lass a scare
She buggered off and left her whiskers hangin' there
And eee! she did look champion when she lost all her hair!
At the Rawtenstall Annual Fair

Harding also notes that the song was recorded "on an old 78 by Randolph Sutton."

Zeb