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Thread #111708   Message #4178021
Posted By: Jack Horntip
29-Jul-23 - 07:53 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Dirty Lil folk song
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dirty Lil folk song
Dirty Lil, Dirty Lil,
Lived on top of garbage hill
Never took a bath and never will
[Hochh, poot!] Dirty Lil.

The tune is "The Blue Tail Fly". Transcribed from the singing of Jim Hitchock, collected by Joseph Hickerson, October 19-20, 1963. (Collection AFS 17,022) library of congress folklife archive.