{"id":497,"date":"2013-07-14T10:33:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=497"},"modified":"2018-02-26T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:46:44","slug":"the-crayfish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=497","title":{"rendered":"The Crayfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those songs that rarely gets by the censors, the buggers!\u00a0 I believe that Cliff learned this one from the singing of John Roberts and Tony Barrand, and Tim is often now the one who presents this song at our performances.\u00a0 I <em>have<\/em> learned rather recently that it is a variation of a little ditty called &#8220;The Sea Crab&#8221; of the very same subject matter and dates back to around &#8211; if not before &#8211; 1620, England.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jos. Morneault<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fisherman, fisherman, standing by the sea,<br \/>\nHave you a crayfish that you can sell to me?<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<br \/>\n<strong><em>By the wayside, Aye-diddley-aye-doe.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes sir, yes sir, that indeed I do,<br \/>\nI have a crayfish that t can sell to you.<\/p>\n<p>So I took him home, and I thought he&#8217;d like a swim,<br \/>\nI filled up the chamberpot and threw the bugger in.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the night, I thought I&#8217;d have a fit,<br \/>\nWhen my old lady got up to wash her face*.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHusband, husband!\u201d she cried out to me,<br \/>\n\u201cThe Devil&#8217;s in the chamberpot, and he&#8217;s got hold of me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Children, children, bring up the looking-glass,<br \/>\nCome and see the crayfish that bit your mother&#8217;s face**.<\/p>\n<p>Children, children, did you hear the grunt?<br \/>\nCome and see the crayfish that bit your mother&#8217;s nose***.<\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s the end of my song and there isn&#8217;t any more,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve an apple in my pocket, and you can have the core.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* take a shit<\/p>\n<p>** ass<\/p>\n<p>*** cunt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those songs that rarely gets by the censors, the buggers!\u00a0 I believe that Cliff learned this one from the singing of John Roberts and Tony Barrand, and Tim is often now the one who presents this song at our performances.\u00a0 I have learned rather recently that it is a variation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-497","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4825,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497\/revisions\/4825"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}