Name: Rattling Bog
Duration: P00H07M11S
Description: Marilla first learnt this song from the singing of Pat McKernan in Melbourne, Australia. It is a traditional song, which we have a lot of fun singing. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Rattling Bog

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Marilla first learnt this song from the singing of Pat McKernan in Melbourne, Australia. It is a traditional song, which we have a lot of fun singing. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

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13. Rattling Bog
Trad – arr. Steel Songbirds

Row row the rattlin’ bog and the bog down in the valley oh
Row row the rattlin’ bog and the bog down in the valley oh
In that bog there was a hole, a rare hole, a rattlin’ hole
The hole in the bog and the bog down in the valley oh

In that hole there was a tree...
On that tree there was a limb…
On that limb there was a branch…
On that branch there was a twig…
On that twig there was a leaf…
On that leaf there was a nest…
In that nest there was an egg…
In that egg there was a bird…
On that bird there was a wing…
On that wing there was a feather…
On that feather there was a flea…
On that flea there was a fly…
On that fly there was an eye…
In that eye there was a sty…
In that sty there was a pig…
On that pig there was an ear…
In that ear there was a hole…

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from Sheffield Made, released February 15, 2019
Traditional song, arranged by Steel Songbirds - Marilla Homes and Emily Eastwood.

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Steel Songbirds Sheffield, UK

Steel Songbirds are Marilla Homes and Emily Eastwood. A comic and poignant musical duo based in Sheffield UK. Blending acapella voices, with occasional fiddle or bouzouki, these girls know how to laugh!

Steel Songbirds were dug from the soil of Australia & England, forged in Sheffield UK, tempered in the swimming pool of life & sharpened on the wit of singledom in the folk/pub/archaeology worlds. ... more

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