Help identifying a song...

Tubberadora

Lads can anybody tell me what song Im thinking of. It all rhymes,and it is very funny, i know a good bit of it but cant find out what it is.

Basically its about a fella goes fishing, catches a crab, leaves it in the maids toilet, it bit the maid as she used the toilet at night. Thats the jist of it.
Anybody help. Im looking for the exact lyrics.

seanybiker

ha sounds funny

Tubberadora

It is alright, know a lad in my local sings it. He is working abroad atm though so cant ask him.

bug

It's called the crabfish or the crayfish, there's about a million different versions of it apparently. The first being French circa 1400.

Here's one. May not be it but it might help in a google search

There was a little man and he had a little horse,
He saddled it and bridled it and cocked his leg across.

Chorus: Singing, hi Jimmy, ho Jimmy, come along with me,
Hi Jimmy, ho Jimmy Johnson.


Now across these fields he went for a ride,
'Til he came to some rocks by the water side.

Now on the rocks he a spied a large crab,
He said `You're mine!' with one big grab.

Now he took the crab home and he couldn't find a dish,
So he put it in the pot where the old woman wished.

Now when the old woman was singing on the pot,
The crab got hold of her you-know-what.

Now one with the hammer and the other with the broom,
They chased that poor old crab round the room.

'I'll teach you to bite!' the old woman cried,
Chased that poor bloody crab 'til he died.

Well that was the end of the poor old crab,
Don't you think it very, very sad.

bug

Here's another version:

37. Little Fisherman (Roud 149)
(Sung by Dan Tate at his home in Fancy Gap, Carroll County, VA. 11.8.79)

Hey my little fisherman I wish you mighty well.
Hey my little fisherman I wish you mighty well.
Have you any sea crabs here for to sell?

Chorus: To my wack, to my foddle and ca-divy.

Yes sir, yes sir, I've one, two, three (x2)
And the best one of them I'll sell to thee.

He picked (took) it up all by the backbone, (x2)
He throwed it 'cross his withers and he wagged off home.

Well, the old man got home, for the want of a dish (x2)
Spoken: Excuse me ...
He threw it in the pot where the women went to piss.

Well, the old man got up to piss as you might suppose (x2)
Wack went the sea crab and caught him by the nose.

John for the flesh fork and Sally for the ladle (x2)
And they beat the old man clean off to the navel.

As The Sea Crabb, this is to be found in Bishop Percy's famous folio manuscript of c.1660 and remained unprinted until 1868 when John Furnival included it in his Loose and Humorous Songs (reprinted 1963). According to Gershom Legman it was first known as a joking tale of Levantine origin that appeared in Italy c.1400, and Roger deV Renwick lists many other examples in chapter 5 of his book Recentering Anglo/American Folksong (2001).

Nora Cleary from Co Clare sings a lovely version on volume 7 of The Voice of the People (Topic TSCD 657), as does Mickey Connors on the cassette Songs of the Irish Travellers (European Ethnic Oral Traditions - no number) recorded and edited by Tom Munnelly. English singers include Harry Cox, Percy Ling, Charlie Stringer, Charlotte Renals (Veteran VT119) and Cyril Barber (Veteran VT102).