Fitba' Crazy
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1953.243.A3d
Original Tape ID
Summary
A street song collected in Glasgow [by A. L. Lloyd]:
Chorus:
He's fitba crazy, he's gane clean mad
The fitba's robbed him o the wee bit sense he had,
It'd tak a washerwoman his claes to rub and scrub,
Since oor Jock became a member o that awfu fitba club.
Verse:
The first match he went to play I went to see mysel
There was half-bricks for the goalpost and a tin can for the ba
The Prince o Wales was present wi a' his ladies fair,
When oor Jock came oot and kicked the ba right up in the air.
Chorus ...
Item Notes
1 verse of 4 lines with a chorus at start and end. This song comes from a late nineteenth century cante-fable (narrative containing sections of song) called 'Dooley Fitba' Club', which was composed by James Currin (or Curran), a Glasgow songwriter originally from Donegal in Ireland.
See:
'Scotland Sings' (E. MacColl, 1953) p. 149
National Library of Scotland, Broadside Ballad collection, RB.m.143(050) & L.C.Fol.70(106) (Poet's Box, Dundee, 1880-1900)
Recording Location
County - Midlothian
Parish - Edinburgh
Village/Place - Edinburgh
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Classification
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair