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Thread #172397 Message #4189453
Posted By: and e
14-Sep-23 - 08:48 PM
Thread Name: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt
Subject: RE: Origins: I Wonder What's Under a Scotsman's Kilt
Johnny, come tickle me, you know where, Under the petticoat, right by the hair. If you don't tickle me in the right place, I'll pick up my petticoat and piss right in your face!
Learned in the 1910s as a kid in Brookly, as recorded on the LP When I Was A Boy in Brooklyn by Israel Kaplan, 1961, track #5, "Rhymes" on the LP . Folkways Records FG 3501.
This is sung but the tune on the record is *not* "The Campbells are Coming".
Liner notes -- with the lyric above -- are available here: