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Big William

Fairport Convention

Nine

1973

Big William to Joe
"You can put it where the monkey sticks his nuts"
"I wouldn't give you fourpence for your lousy rotten dough
And, anyway, you

ha'penny soap
There's one and eightpence coals old boy
And tenpence wood and coke

There's fourpence there for milk and cream
And one and tuppence malt
Three

of the sale, His debts were reconciled

The husband, he got sixpence, Paid fourpence for the toll
With tuppence for the bellman, To declare his wife was sold
He

drill and with shovel he toiled underground
Fourpence a day for ten tons of ground.

Now this land is so rich and it seems strange to me
that the black

shoing bi-drot
I must be shoeing but it costs me fourpence
Tightening the shoe under this foot
The white man's work who lives in the Gelli

Shoeing,