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Thread #111874 Message #4212801
Posted By: John MacKenzie
03-Dec-24 - 04:24 PM
Thread Name: Songs about being fat, overweight, heavy, obese
Subject: RE: Songs about being fat, overweight, heavy, obese
Cushy Butterfield
I'm a broken-hearted keel-man, what's ower heed in love With a young lass from Gateshead and I call her my dove Her name's Cushie Butterfield and she sells yellow clay And her cousin's a muck-man and they call him Tom Grey She's a big lass and a bonnie lass And she likes her beer And they call her Cushie Butterfield And I wish she was here Her eyes is like two holes in a blanket burnt through And her broos of a morning would spyen a young coo And when I hear her shootin', will ye buy any clay? Like a candyman's trumpet, it steals my young heart away She's a big lass and a bonnie lass And she likes her beer And they call her Cushie Butterfield And I wish she was here You'll oft see her doon at Sandgate when the fresh herring comes in She's like a bag full of sawdust, tied roon' with a string She wears big galoshes tae, and her stocking's once was white And her bedgoon it's lilac and her hat's never straight She's a big lass and a bonnie lass And she likes her beer And they call her Cushie Butterfield And I wish she was here When I asked her to marry us, she started to laugh No, none of your monkey tricks for I like nae such chaff Then she started a-bubbling and roared like a bull And the chaps on the Quay says I's nowt but a fool She's a big lass and a bonnie lass And she likes her beer And they call her Cushie Butterfield And I wish she was here She says, the man that gets us he had te work every day And when he comes hyem at neet he'll have te gan and seek clay And when he's away seekin' it I'll make balls and sing Oh weel may the keel row that my laddie's in She's a big lass and a bonnie lass And she likes her beer And they call her Cushie Butterfield And I wish, I wish, I wish I wish she was here