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Thread #45404   Message #670765
Posted By: Harvey
17-Mar-02 - 12:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Willy 'Ole Lad
Subject: Willy 'ole lad
I've heard this song from time to time at various singarounds & I want to learn it. However, it's not on DigiTrad. This may be becaise it's a 20th century song and still in copyright.

The chorus is:

Well I dare say he's young now, and handsome And his eyes are a fine smiling blue, But he's clogs, and he'll always be clogs, lass, Yon willy 'ole lad's not for you.

A "willy hole lad" was the lowest paid job in a cotton mill, involving crawling into the willy hole of a power loom to retrieve cotton waste.

Does anyone know all the words?