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Thread #39994   Message #571276
Posted By: pavane
13-Oct-01 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: Songs of Dismemberment
Subject: RE: Songs of Dismemberment
Chevy Chase: (version quoted by Karl Dallas)
For Witherington needs must I wail
As one in doleful dumps
For when his legs were smitten off
He fought all on his stumps


A bit like Benbow.

The Bold Trooper - cut off the ears of a tailor he found with his wife.

There is also a print c1670 in the Bodley library of a Priest who was given a Bobbit in similar circiumstances by a butcher. No tune available though, I think.

The Kerry Recruit 'where heads, legs and arms were scattered around'