The Winkle Song (British Music Hall )

The Winkle Song
British Music Hall trad.

Match bar winkles are street stalls that sell winkles. Winkles being small, snail like, shell fish found along the English coast. A pin is use to extract them from the shell. Winkles with bread and butter is a traditional cockney Sunday afternoon tea!



As I was going home to tea
I thought I'd take some luxury
Went into a match bar winkle
Bought me self a pennyworth of winkle
Going home to tea as happy as could be
Went up stairs left all the family
Picking all the big ones out
Picking all the big ones out
You should have seen my face a'wrinkle
When I saw my penny worth of winkle
All the big ones gone
It made me rave and shout
There was the wife and seven kids
Picking all the big one's out.
Singin', I can't get my winkle out
With my old bent pin
I can't get my winkle out!
Isn't it a sin!
I can't get my winkle out!
Isn't it a doer!
I can't get my winkle out!
Anyone got a skewer?