Costermonger's Song, The

DESCRIPTION: "I'm Billy Bell, a costermonger as you sees A-dealing in carrots, turnips, leeks, and cabbages"; he likes his pleasures to and is happy "Goin' to the Derby in me little donkey cart." He does his work, and will be back at "Hepsom" next year
AUTHOR: Arthur Lloyd (source:FolkSongAndMusicHall)
EARLIEST DATE: 1872 (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
KEYWORDS: commerce food animal | donkey cart vegetables
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk, #48, "The Costermonger's Song" (1 text)
FolkSongAndMusicHall, "Costermonger's Song, The"
Roud #3371
File: Hows048

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