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Thread #164796   Message #3948034
Posted By: GUEST,jim bainbridge
04-Sep-18 - 11:04 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Buy Broom Besons?/Besoms/Buzzems
Subject: RE: Broom Besoms, lyrics
Johnny Handle has a few extra verses- no doubt Willie Purvis was quite OK with a bit of early product placement while singing- one verse went, I think..

'If ye want an orange for te taste yer mooth
Gan te Handy Walker, he's a bonny youth'....

there's ome about oysters as well


Willie Purvis lived a bit longer than Burns- by the way, there is no doubt that Burns did a tour of the northern counties of England & also that he heard a street singer in Newcastle singing a song using the words 'auld lang syne'
Don't want to start any trouble about the border, we have enough here in Ireland- never heard the Castleblayney version here, either?