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As I went down a shady lane
No full textBawdy song: tinker calls at a house to see if they have any pots needing mending. The lady of the house takes him up to the bedroom and puts him to work.Similar to a version popularized by Clancy Bros. and Tommy Makem in 1960's
An engineer told me before he died
No full textBawdy song: engineer constructs a machine in an attempt to satisfy his wife.Cray, "The Erotic Muse", p. 136, notes and references p. 198; Legman, "The Horn Book", pp. 327, 422 ("The Great Wheel"); Legman, "Rationale II", pp. 473-4 ("The Great Wheel"); Morgan, "More Rugby Songs", p. 136 ("The Blacksmith")
Oh 'tis maybe some day I'll go home to Ireland
No full textHumourous song of a wife with a mouth as big as Galway Bay, a map of Ireland tatooed on her back, and who, at pub closing time, uses a language that the 'clergy' do not know.This parody of the sentimental song "Galway Bay" (made popular by a Bing Crosby recording) was featured on an early Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem L.P
CHORUS: And it's oh dear what can the matter be 1. Well the first old lady was Jennifer Trim
No full textHumourous and bawdy drinking song
Come boys and take a warning of what I'm going to say
No full textStory of men lost in storm during overland trip from Lawn to St. Lawrence