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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jan 15, 2009 16:01:46 GMT
I was listenening to that wonderful group The Gaugers the other day, & their CD Awa wi the Rovin Sailor On this CD there is the song ~ The Boddamers Hinged The Monkey. Of course Boddam is a small coastal village just south of Peterhead. BoddamAnyway, songs like this one are apparently sung in other coastal villages further south too. In fact it's a pretty widespread tale, a ship was wrecked off the village sometime around the Napoleonic Wars, and the locals hanged a monkey because they thought it was a Frenchman. However, although Hartlepool & the local Football team claim this story, a new study claims that it actually took place in Aberdeenshire after all: So it looks like the Gaugers got it right after all. Cheers Dick
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jan 15, 2009 19:44:30 GMT
Here are the lyrics:
Cheers Dick
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jan 18, 2009 14:25:47 GMT
Interestingly, Fiona-Jane Brown came back with this reply:
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