As I Was A-Walking by Yon Green Garden

DESCRIPTION: The singer sees "an auld wife she was clawing her hole." He asks why she is so itchy. She tells him to leave and "I will claw it my fill"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1828 (Lyle-Andrew-CrawfurdsCollectionVolume1)
KEYWORDS: age dialog scatological
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lyle-Andrew-CrawfurdsCollectionVolume1 68, "As I Was A-Walking by Yon Green Garden" (1 text)
Roud #3865
File: LyCr1068

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