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Title
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Tetbury Mop
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Singer
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Iles, Joseph
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Notes
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Note 1
Williams, Alfred: Ms / WGS: 'An old, local song, sung at the Michaelmas Fairs. Circencester, Highworth or Marlborough might have been substituted for Tetbury. Words of Joseph Iles, Poulton.'
Note 2
In WGS there is a variant, additional Verse 5:
There are soldiers and sailors, and boys from the plough,
A four headed ox, and a two headed cow,
I'll tell you the truth, and I don't care a pin,
There's a lot of old women get drunk with the gin.
Note 3
In the manuscript, in another hand, there is a variation to the words in Verse 4. The text in the notebook reads:
'Bad ones you know it is true,
But good ones you can find but few'
There's pigs upon crutches without any legs,
And 2 or 3 turkeys keep laying of eggs.
There is also a version of this in the notebook - WSRO: 2598/36 Packet 6 - Notebook p 31 - 33. The notebook also differs from the transcribed verse in the manuscript text in Verse 6. The notebook reads: 'There's a lot of old women get up for a spree'.
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
