Those Old Red Flannel Drawers that Maggie Wore

DESCRIPTION: "They were tattered, they were torn, Round the crotchpiece they were worn"; they are so vile that they paralyze the cat, and the sun will not shine on them. When they (and she) are buried, they poison the grass for a great distance
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Morgan/Green-RugbySongs)
KEYWORDS: clothes death poison talltale
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Morgan/Green-RugbySongs, p. 93, "Those Old Red Flannel Drawers that Maggie Wore" (1 text)
Roud #10146
File: RuSoORFD

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