John Prott Your Wedders is Fat

DESCRIPTION: "John Prott, your wedders is fat, And we hae you to thank for that; For their heads and their horns Ye'll get them doon amo' the thorns; And for the 'oo that wis on their skin, We gae't oor wives to spin"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1908 (Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast)
KEYWORDS: farming nonballad sheep
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #23, p. 2, ("John Prott, your wedders is fat") (1 short text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "John Prott and His Man (I)" (character?)
cf. "John Prott and His Man (II)" (character?)
NOTES [9 words]: The current description is all of the Greig text. - BS
Last updated in version 2.6
File: Grg023a

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