There Was a Cow Climbed Up a Tree

DESCRIPTION: "There was a cow climbed up a tree (x3), And you're an awful bum!" "Comrades, don't believe him (x3), As you have done before."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling)
KEYWORDS: animal warning | cow tree bum
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 65, "(There was a cow climbed up a tree)" (1 text)
NOTES [27 words]: The verse of this might well be from "Martin Said To His Man" or another similar song. The chorus seems unusual, though, so I have (very tentatively) split them. - RBW
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File: PKKB065C

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