Cooking the Cock of the North

DESCRIPTION: "I went into into a raffle once And what do you think that I got? Well, a beautiful bird from off of McNat... But every minute he'd cry, Cock a doodle, cock a doodle, That's what he sang in the broth." Or "Cock a doodle... I'm the cock of the north"
AUTHOR: Harry Wincott and Harry Castling (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
EARLIEST DATE: 1911 (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
KEYWORDS: bird food gambling
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, "Cock a doodle, cock a doodle" (1 fragment)
FolkSongAndMusicHall, "Cooking the Cock of the North"
Roud #3554
NOTES [39 words]: Fowke thinks Alice Kane's version was from a pipe tune, "Cock of the North," which seems not unlikely given the late date of "Cooking the Cock of the North." But Roud lumps the pop song with Kane's fragment, so I'm doing the same. - RBW
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File: KSUC177A

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