Figgerty Gutter

DESCRIPTION: "Figgerty Gutter, come home to supper, Some lean, some fat, Some comes under the butcher's hat" (or) "That's fat, that's lean, That's yellow, that's lean, That's good for the butcher's end."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1974 (Porter); reportedly sung in the 1880s
KEYWORDS: food nonballad home playparty
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Enid Porter, _The Folklore of East Anglia_, Batsford, 1974, p. 58, "(no title)" (2 short texts)
File: EniPo058

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