Shrove Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday

DESCRIPTION: "Ash Wednesday, Shrove Thursday [or Fat Tuesday], When Jack went to school/plow, His mother made pancakes And left them to cool. She roast them, she toast them, She made them so hot, She used too much pepper/butter And poisoned poor Jack"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1975 (Brady-AllInAllIn)
KEYWORDS: mother food poison
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 74, "(Ash Wednesday, Shrove Tuesday)"; p. 75, "(Shrove Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday)" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #1516
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Fat Tuesday
NOTES [43 words]: Roud's #1516 includes quite a few Shrove Tuesday/alms songs. It seems to me that this number includes several songs, but it is often hard to separate them. But the story of a mother poisoning her son seems distinct enough that I think it has to be split. - RBW
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File: BAAI074C

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