Knobby Hall

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, his name was (K)nobby Hall, Knobby Hall (x2), Oh, his name was Knobby Hall, and he only had one ball." Hall stabbed his wife. The rest of his career is modeled on "Sam Hall," but with names and places vulgarized
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Morgan/Green-RugbySongs)
KEYWORDS: scatological derivative death homicide punishment
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Morgan/Green-RugbySongs, pp. 80-81, "Knobby Hall" (1 text)
Roud #369
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Sam Hall (Jack Hall)" [Laws L5] (tune)
NOTES [38 words]: Roud lumps this with "Sam Hall," from which it patently derives, and it is true that most of this song is a variant of that one. But it has a sort of obscene prologue which is clearly a rewrite, so I have kept them separate. - RBW
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