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Thread #148280   Message #3442145
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
25-Nov-12 - 07:04 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Cobbler and the Crow
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: THE COBBLER AND THE CROW (A Brooks)
Pleasure Steve.

In the interest of completeness here's the lyrics and the tune.

Mick



THE COBBLER AND THE CROW
(Alfred Brooks)

Once there was a cobbler, busy as a bee,
  Lily, lily, lily, lily, lido,
When an old black crow came perch'd upon a tree,
  With his qua! qua! qua! qua!
  Lily, lily, lily, lily, lido.


Wife now go and fetch my good old blunderbuss
And I'll shoot yon crow for so much annoying us

The cobbler miss'd his aim, to hit the crow did fail
But he shot the poor donkey right through the head and tail

The Cobbler could not shoot, no, not to save his life
He tried to shoot the crow but he shot his darling wife
  (Spoken after 3rd V: And there sat the old crow without a feather ruffled)

Now having shot his wife it fill'd his heart with woe
So the Cobbler shot himself because he could not shoot the crow


Source: Sheet music images from the Johns Hopkins link above. Music says "As sung by Wm H. Lee". Music dated 1869



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T:The Cobbler And The Crow
C:Alfred Brooks
B:Sheet music at Johns Hopkins (1869)
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M:4/4
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