{"id":416,"date":"2014-12-13T12:32:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T12:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2016-05-24T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T11:25:57","slug":"i-cant-change-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/13\/i-cant-change-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t change it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  sdl_right\" style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">74.11.8<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:12.6px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"74.11.8\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zc3NhLmxsYy5lZC5hYy51ay93aGFsc2F5YW5zL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy9zaXRlcy8yLzIwMTUvMDEvNzQuMTEuOC5tcDM=\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script>\n\n<script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:true, vol:100, height:'' };<\/script>\n<p><b>Grace Anderson \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>SA1974.11.8<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A gem of a comic music hall song composed, we think, by T.W. Connor in 1894.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for a comment from\u00a0 Adrian Banham\u00a0 that the activity\u00a0 in the\u00a0 last line of verse two was oakum picking not cotton picking.\u00a0 The boring task of picking oakum (old rope) was one of the most common forms of labour undertaken by prisoners during the\u00a0 Victorian period.<\/p>\n<p>Roud index no. 8828.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><i>Oh, I know a lot of lazy men, to meet them where you may,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>They never have a shilling, always stony-broke they say.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>WIth me it&#8217;s just the other way, I&#8217;m a man like this \u2013<br \/>\n<\/i><i>I&#8217;ve always have a shilling in my pocket &#8211; here it is &#8211;<br \/>\n<\/i><i>But I can&#8217;t change it, I can&#8217;t change it,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>The reason I will let you know, it&#8217;s one I made myself and so<br \/>\n<\/i><i>I can&#8217;t change it, I don&#8217;t intend to try &#8211;<br \/>\n<\/i><i>But I\u2018ll maybe cheat a blind man in the sweet by-and-by.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><i>I got an invitation to a wedding down our way<br \/>\n<\/i><i>So I went into a shop to buy a hat the other day.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>I wasn\u2019t long in choosing one then from the shop I quit;<br \/>\n<\/i><i>But since I\u2019ve tried it on my nut, I find it doesn\u2019t fit.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>But I can&#8217;t change it, I can&#8217;t change it,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>For when the shop man turned his back I stole the hat from off the rack<br \/>\n<\/i><i>And I can&#8217;t change it, I don&#8217;t intend to try &#8211;<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Or he\u2019ll have me picking oakum in the sweet by-and-by.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><i>I wanted to get married like the rest of foolish men,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>I got the girl, I bought the ring, got married there and then.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>But when the job was over I was taken down a peg,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>For her hair, her eyes, her teeth were false and she had a wooden leg.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>But, I can&#8217;t change her, I don\u2019t intend to try;<br \/>\n<\/i><i>The reason why I\u2019ll let you know she was half a woman and half a tree.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>But I can\u2019t change her, I don\u2019t intend to try &#8211;<br \/>\n<\/i><i>But I\u2019ll break her up for firewood in the sweet by and by\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>When I came home from work one day, the nurse was at the door.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>She says, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got a baby girl\u00a0 that makes it just a score.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><i>She says, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got a baby girl to fill your heart with joy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Well I wished her to the Devil, for what I wanted was a boy!<br \/>\n<\/i><i>But, I can&#8217;t change her, I can&#8217;t change her,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>I\u2019ve asked a lot who ought to know,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>I\u2019ve asked the nurse and she says, &#8220;No&#8221;;<br \/>\n<\/i><i>I can\u2019t change her, don\u2019t intend to try &#8211;<br \/>\n<\/i><i>For there\u2019ll maybe be a dozen in the sweet by-and-by.<\/i><\/p>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/13\/i-cant-change-it\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35],"tags":[62,119],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace-anderson","category-i-p","tag-comic","tag-music-hall"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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