Lyr Req: Garbage Picker's Ball?

Subject: no idea
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 01:20 AM

My husband and his father sing this ditty...

Oh, I met her at the garbage picker's ball
I met her at the garbage picker's ball.
She had corns and a bunion and smelled like spanish onions.
Oh, I met her at the garbage picker's ball

Has ANYONE ever heard where this comes from???

Subject: RE: no idea: Lyr Req: Garbage picker's ball?
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 10:49 AM

Parody of Darktown Strutters Ball?

Subject: RE: no idea: Lyr Req: Garbage picker's ball?
From: X
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 10:48 PM

Could that be an old Hommer and Jethro song?

Subject: RE: no idea: Lyr Req: Garbage picker's ball?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Aug 02 - 01:42 AM

Was it in reference to you?

This is GOOD ONE....there MUST someone who knows more of it????

Subject: RE: no idea: Lyr Req: Garbage picker's ball?
From: JudeL
Date: 21 Aug 02 - 04:10 AM

Is this likely to be another version of the charladies ball which I've heard sung at Chippenham in the admiral's bear essential sing?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Garbage Picker's Ball?
From: GUEST,Well, t'ain't it.
Date: 07 Dec 09 - 12:53 AM

There once was a man named Joe
Who had very crusty toes
He had corns and bunions
That smelled like onions
And that's how the story goes

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Garbage Picker's Ball?
From: GUEST,Unknown
Date: 17 Apr 14 - 05:49 PM

My father sings this song too. It was a little ditty that soldiers in WWll would sing. I'm not quite sure if what you have there is the whole song, or just a verse.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Garbage Picker's Ball?
From: GUEST,Mickey
Date: 07 Jun 14 - 05:39 PM

probably too late but my dad served in the air forcein WWII and he also sang this.

I know a lassy she's smelly but she's classy
and I met her at the garbage pickers ball.
She had calluses, corns and bunions
and she smelt like spanish onions
Oh I met her at the garbage pickers ball.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Garbage Picker's Ball?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Oct 24 - 08:16 PM

My father sang this when I was a kid. He came back from WW11 stationed in Middleton St. George England in 1942-43.   I learned many songs from my Dad singing in the shower or just singing to me and sister.   My sister was born in 1945 and I was born in 1947.

I asked my Dad where it came from, about 2013, but he did not seem to know.   He’s gone now.