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"At the beginning of the present century the small boys of Chagford made the streets resound with shouts of this quaint old rhyme :
Old Harry Trewin
Had no burtches to wear,
So he stawl a ram's skin
Vur to make en a pair :
Wi' the woolly zide out,
And the fleshy zide in,
They sticked purty tight
To old Harry Trewin."
Had no burtches to wear,
So he stawl a ram's skin
Vur to make en a pair :
Wi' the woolly zide out,
And the fleshy zide in,
They sticked purty tight
To old Harry Trewin."
[I have studied this fragment a little, and found it is part of a much larger family of folk tunes (Roud Folksong index no. 294). I found local variations, including one from Chagfords 'rival' Moretonhampstead. I would publish the long peice I wrote on it, but I am saving it up for a book I am going to publish on the Folklore of Chagford...]
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