Oggie Song, The

DESCRIPTION: I song that appears to have been written by drunks for drunks: "Where be going to Jagger? I be going to Looe. Gor! Buggre Jagger! I be going there too." They will all go to Oggie Land, where they can't tell sugar from tissue paper from jam
AUTHOR: Ivor Bursten and Others (source: Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy)
EARLIEST DATE: 1987 (Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy); reportedly written 1943
KEYWORDS: drink travel sailor nonsense derivative
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy, pp. 62-63, "The Oggie Song" (1 text)
NOTES [30 words]: Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy lists a whole bunch of unlikely places where this... thing... continues to be sung, which I think proves that it's better to be lucky than good. - RBW
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File: Tawn045

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