Lyr Req/Add: She Loved a Portuguese (P Cogshill)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: She Loved a Portuguese (P Cogshill)
From: Mr Happy
Date: 30 Sep 13 - 08:30 AM

Very reminiscent of 'The Ballad of Bethnal Green'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: She Loved a Portuguese (P Cogshill)
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 30 Sep 13 - 12:56 PM

Portuguese sailors got around quite a bit.

FRom Trinidad:

"I was supporting a woman independently
She promised to make a baby for me
When it was born, I went to see
His eyes were blue, it was a Portugee
      (Man Smart, Woman Smarter)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: She Loved a Portuguese (P Cogshill)
From: GUEST,Peter McMullen
Date: 06 Oct 16 - 08:21 AM

My memories are similar to Derek Brimstone's - I played a couple of sets at the Troubadour in London in 1968 and heard a young may sing She loved a Portuguese and a couple of other hilarious songs. Redd Sullivan was MCing the show and told me that the songs were sung by their author. Patrick Cogshill sounds right 'cause Peter Parkhill(a diminutive fellow Australian) did a set as well and I think I made a remark about the hills in England being taller than those from Aus.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: She Loved a Portuguese (P Cogshill)
From: GUEST,John Ashurst
Date: 27 Oct 20 - 12:07 PM

The fact that Paddy Roberts never recorded it seems to suggest that it was not written by him. The hunt for P. Cogshill and/or his songs continues.