Bung Yer Eye

DESCRIPTION: Singer praises his girlfriend, Kitty, and tells of a rowdy dance he takes her to where (Long Tom/Silver Jack) "bossed the whole shebang", Big Dan plays the fiddle, and Tom (Jack) eventually "cleans out" the joint. Chorus: "Bung yer eye! Bung yer eye!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1926 (Rickaby-BalladsAndSongsOfTheShantyBoy)
LONG DESCRIPTION: Singer praises his girlfriend, Kitty, and tells of a rowdy dance he takes her to where (Long Tom/Silver Jack) "bossed the whole shebang," Big Dan plays the fiddle, and Tom (Jack) eventually "cleans out" the joint by kicking out sailors (farmers). Chorus: "Bung yer eye! Bung yer eye!"
KEYWORDS: fight dancing drink lover
FOUND IN: US(MW) Canada(West)
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Rickaby-BalladsAndSongsOfTheShantyBoy 33, "Bung Yer Eye" (1 text)
Rickaby/Dykstra/Leary-PineryBoys-SongsSongcatchingInLumberjackEra 33, "Bung Yer Eye" (1 text)
Beck-SongsOfTheMichiganLumberjacks 41, "Bung Yer Eye" (2 texts)
Beck-TheyKnewPaulBunyan, pp. 189-190, "Bung Yer Eye" (2 short texts)
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 56, "Bung Yer Eye" (2 texts)
Fowke-LumberingSongsFromTheNorthernWoods #4, "A-Lumbering We Go" (1 text, 1 tune, a mixed text starting with two stanzas of "Once More A-Lumbering Go" and continuing with a version of "Bung Yer Eye" minus the chorus)
Lomax/Lomax-AmericanBalladsAndFolkSongs, pp. 450-451, "Bung Yer Eye" (1 text)
Roud #6513
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Silver Jack" (character)
cf. Quare Bungo Rye" (chorus lyrics)
NOTES [42 words]: This should not be confused with the "Bung Your Eye" that is a version of "Quare Bungo Rye." No relation other than the chorus. The "Silver Jack" referred to in one version of this song is the same character that stars in the song of the same name. - PJS
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