There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Lamp

DESCRIPTION: "There was an old woman who lived in a lamp. She hadn't no room to beetle her champ [mash her potatoes]. So she up with her beetle and broke the lamp, And then she had room to beetle her champ."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: food home
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 40, "There was an old woman who lived in a lamp" (1 text)
Roud #25366
File: KSUC040A

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