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[M Holmes]

J Strobridge writes:

> >
> > Football crazy
> > He's football mad
> > The football it has taken away
> > The little bit of sense he had
> > And it would take a thousand ?????
> > To ???????????????????
> > The night he became a member
> > Of that terrible football club
> >
> >
>
> what an interestingly sanitised version.    I've only ever heard the
> Glasgow accented version which went something like....
>
> He's fitba crazy, he's fitba mad
> And the fitba it has taken a'
> The wee bit sense he had.
> And it would take a dozen skivvies
> To  {....? ...}
> When wee Jock became a member o' that
> Turrible fitba club.
>
> And, no, I don't remember the 5th line either tho' it might have
> something to do with cleaning off the mud of a football pitch but I'm
> not sure!
>
> jill
>
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> J.D.Strobridge at ed.ac.uk                         eset08 at castle.ed.ac.uk
>                                                 ELIJSA at srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk
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He's Football crazy
He's football mad
The football it has taken away
The little bit of sense he had
And it would take a thousand servants
To wash his clothes and scrub
The day he became a member
Of that terrible football club

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