Help with a gem!

ghogie91

Right this hopped up on my Facebook somehow

https://www.facebook.com/john.ryan.96592/videos/1221115441248689/

Can anyone tell me the name or anything about the song haha it's brilliant

NachoBusiness

The Crabfish / "Johnny Daddlum".

Oh Johnny Daddle -um how do ye dee
Have you got a crabfish you can spare me

Johnny Daddle-um, daddle-um
Oh Johnny Daddle-um -a-dee

Oh no says the fisherman, the weather’s been drab
I’ve been fishing all day and I’ve only caught a crab

So he got a hook and he stuck it up its bone
Slung it o’er his shoulder and F****ed off home

When he got home he couldn’t find the dish
So he put it in the pot where the maidens used to pish

In the middle of the night the maid she got a fright
She got up for to have a

She sat on the bowl and she began to grunt
And the durty little B*****d caught her by the nose

Oh dear mother as sure as you’re born
The divils in the pishpot sticking up his horns

The moral of the story and the moral is this
Always have a look before you have a pish.

Many different versions of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8PCIoJYA80

"The Crabfish" is a ribald humorous folk song of the English oral tradition. It dates back to the seventeenth century, appearing in Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript as a song named "The Sea Crabb" based on an earlier tale. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 149. The moral of the story is that one should look in the chamber pot before using it.

Owing to the indelicate nature of its theme this ballad was intentionally excluded from Francis James Child's renowned compilation of folk songs The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.

A man brings a crabfish (most likely a common lobster) home as a gift for his wife and puts it in the chamber pot. Some time in the night his wife answers a call of nature and the crustacean grabs her private parts. In the ensuing scuffle the husband gets bitten too.

"Johnny Daddlum" is the Irish version of this song. There are variants in which the coarse language is more clear-cut than in others. In some variants the wife is pregnant, having previously told her husband about her craving to eat crabfish meat.

This song has also variants under other names such as "Old She-Crab," "The Crayfish," "A Combat Between an Ale-Wife and a Sea Crab," "The Fishy Crab," and "The Lobster."

A sanitized version of "The Crabfish," expunging the straightforwardness of the original in order to make the song available for child audiences, was released in recent years. Instead of private parts the crabfish grabs the wife by the nose and the husband by the ear.

ghogie91

NachoBusiness wrote: »

The Crabfish / "Johnny Daddlum".




Many different versions of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8PCIoJYA80

Brilliant that's perfect thanks wasn't holding a lot of hope there at all