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Inter-library loan is, eventually, going to provide me with a copy of that music hall song of sadly not immortal fame, "With My Little Wigger-Wagger In My Hand" (sometimes seen as "Wiggle-Waggle"), by (Fred) Earl, (Frank) Carter, and (Gilbert) Wells. Yes, the lyrics are about as sophisticated as the title suggests:

As I walked along the wire with my coat on fire
And my little wigger-wagger in my hand


Ah! My childhood inheritance.

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Date: 2010-03-30 10:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbassassin.livejournal.com
In my experience, most men with little wigger-waggers don't tend to brag/write ditties about the fact.

...

Sorry. It had to be done. :D

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Date: 2010-03-30 10:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adina-atl.livejournal.com
Great minds think alike--and so do ours.

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Date: 2010-03-31 08:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
Those were more modest times.

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Date: 2010-03-30 10:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adina-atl.livejournal.com
I think that walking along with your wiggle-waggle in your hand will get you arrested for indecent exposure in most cities.

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Date: 2010-03-31 08:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
Surely you are not suggesting that there is anything obscene about these lyrics? Shame on your filthy modern mind!

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Date: 2010-03-31 11:59 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] el-staplador.livejournal.com
I'm intrigued as to what your interest is in these gents' wigger-waggers.

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Date: 2010-03-31 12:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antisoppist.livejournal.com
I would also like to know the childhood associations. Though when I was about four my dad used to put me on his shoulders and stomp around the farm singing a song that I swear went "off we go together, horny man and sir, never mind the weather..." and I can't remember any more. Googling for that one is really not a good idea.

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Date: 2010-03-31 01:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] el-staplador.livejournal.com
Now that sounds familiar. But I think I am thinking of a recording of The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, on 45rpm vinyl, belonging to my mother, which was interspersed with songs such as the following:

Underneath the old puss-cat,
You and I together,
Facing any weather,
Talking of this and that,
Underneath the old puss-cat.


(This, obviously, when Peter and Benjamin are trapped in the upturned basket which the cat is sitting upon.)

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Date: 2010-03-31 01:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antisoppist.livejournal.com
I don't like Beatrix Potter but the song sounds good.

(Dress animals up in clothes fine, if you then let them behave like people. Dress them up in clothes and then have them still eat eachother is just warped. But I am in a minority.)

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Date: 2010-03-31 02:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
It's nature red in tooth and mob cap!

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Date: 2010-03-31 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antisoppist.livejournal.com
Exactly, and so very very wrong!

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Date: 2010-03-31 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
It's part of English culture! That is, it's one of the various bits of music hall I know, in this particular case very badly, from father and grandmother , and I'd like to know all the words to it, rather than just wondering why this man is stepping out of the window with his little wigger-wagger in his hand...

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Date: 2010-04-01 04:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com
Clearly the man is a tight rope walker and the wigger-wagger is that pole tightrope walkers hold to help them keep their balance. What I want to know is why his coat's on fire. Health and safety would never allow an act like that nowadays.

Have obtained music from library

Date: 2010-04-01 08:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
You're right! Well, his wigger-wagger is in fact a cane*, but on this occasion he has climbed out of his burning house to escape via telegraph wires:

Sizzling and a-frizzling,
I did a bit of Blondin - understand?
With my shirt on fire then I walked along the wire,
With my little wigger-wagger in my hand


*Or that's the excuse.

Re: Have obtained music from library

Date: 2010-04-02 11:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com
I expect you already know that the lyrics to The Spaniard That Blighted My Life can be found here (http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/t/thespaniardthatblightedmylife.shtml)?

Re: Have obtained music from library

Date: 2010-04-04 01:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
They (with music) turned out to be in the book! Dad's new scanner has been inaugarated by scanning them and sending them to B., who aged 11 won a quiz by being able to sing the first verse.

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