Cushie Butterfield: She’s a Little Cow

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They include willy-nilly ("impotent"), flabbergasted ("appalled at how fat you've grown"), abdicate ("to give up all hope of having a flat stomach") and gargoyle ("an olive flavoured mouthwash"). From distant childhood, Martin also recalls a nursery rhyme beginning: "Cushy cow bonny, let down your milk."

Later during successive world wars, grain rationing led to a reduction in beer alcohol content and Stout Porters dropped from six or seven percent ABV to around four percent.Find sources: "Cushie Butterfield"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The best remains "negligent" - "the absent minded condition in which you answer the front door in your nightie". After helping put out a blaze, he was eating an apple and asked one of the soldiers which part of Middlesbrough he happened to be from. Cushy Butterfield is the second adopted “Tyneside Anthem” after the Blaydon Races, and also by Geordie Ridley, his last song, circa 1862. It was the wonderful chorus that inspired the name for our first Stout.

Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" is the title of an English song, composed by the London music hall and broadside songwriter Harry Clifton (1832–1872), [1] and first published in 1864. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 430. Her exasperation is understandable, her history more questionable. In the 16th century, they went to bed at sunset.It was almost universally known in England until around the mid-1950s, when it began to fade as being too old-fashioned. The title refers to the district of Paddington in London. The song gained a place in the canonical Oxford Book of Comic Verse, and the original manuscript of "Polly" is now held in the Bodleian Library.