Patrick Duff asks us about something he heard somewhere:
I've heard a Christmas song called "Christmas in the Workhouse" where a line in the middle of the song is "someone shouted balls!" I've found various poems online, but no actual songs. Do you know of any audio recordings for this song?
Don't remember ever hearing this either as a song or a poem. I did unearth a copy of what Patrick's talking about, however. The lyrics are correct, and it would make a heck of a song, perhaps as a Celtic stomp, maybe as a flat-out punk shouter. This website presents it without attribution; other sites say it was Rudyard Kipling, still others say it's never turned up with Kipling's name attached. It did appear in a TV movie, "The Gathering," in which an incomplete version was recited by Ed Asner. If anybody knows about this poem being set to music, let the rest of us know in comments or in an e-mail to the site.
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