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Thread #54556   Message #845089
Posted By: GUEST,Q
10-Dec-02 - 11:24 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Christmas Song Failures
Subject: Lyr Add: A NEW CHRISTMAS SONG (from Bodleian)
The Bodleian Library, as well as being informative is ae graveyard of bad songs. Looking for songs about eating, I found this (and more):

Lyr. Add: A New Christmas Song

Christmas is very near arrived,
Drown all sorrow, be alive,
Drown all sorrow, banish grief,
Boil the pudding, roast the beef.

Chorus
Boil the pudding, boil away,
Both night and day,
And have a blow out in the morning.

Merrily, Cheerily, drown all care,
Christmas comes but once a year,
There are ducks and turkeys,
Geese and greens, carriages that go by steam,
Flocking up to every town;
Boil the pudding and knock me down,
How different now are folkses ways,
To what the where in former days,
For our customers did not dream,
They'd cook the geese and pudding by steam.

Come join me merry gentlemen,
To dance the polka, and do it again,
Rule Britannia like good a 'un,
Pick the plums and boil the pudding,
Bless you merry gentlemen,
Hoping you may all live long,
Old and young, great and small,
Missing none but taking all,
Now my song is near a close,
Will it suit, do you suppose,
If it will as I believe,
We will sing it away till Christmas eve.

By a tipsy shopkeeper?? From Bodleian Library, Harding B11(4208), pub. J. Harkness, Preston. Dated ca. 1840-1866.