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Thread #72705 Message #3347721
Posted By: Richard from Liverpool
07-May-12 - 06:10 AM
Thread Name: Origins:Old Man 'Badiah Jumped in the Fire/Obadiah
Subject: Lyr Add: Jeremiah peed on the fire
This is the version from Liverpool, as printed in Frank Shaw's You Know Me Anty Nelly? (1970) - very similar to Paul Burke's version from his mother in Lancashire.
Jeremiah pee'd on the fire, The fire was out- So he pee'd up the spout. The spout was flat So he pee'd on the cat And the cat ran away With the pee on its back