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Old Johnny Bugger ~ Trad. Arr. casetone2514

One for the Kiddies! I don't remember where I first heard this song but it's probably more than twenty years ago. The origins of the song are difficult. Old Johnny Bugger is sometimes Old Johnny Bucker, Bucca, Pucker and various other similar sounding names. It is interesting to note that a pre-Roman Bucca in the British Isles was a male fairy or pixie which is where Puck (of A Midsummer Night's Dream fame) got his name. This suggests that Johnny Bugger and his wife are mythical creatures which fits in well with the folk tradition in the North of England that tells tales of the little people in songs like The Boggart for example. The song did travel across the Atlantic and transformed into a very popular minstrel song called Old Johnny Bigga (or Bigger) that is seldom heard these days as the word it rhymed with 'Bigger' is certainly not one that would be considered acceptable today. For those not familiar with the term 'Bugger' it is a mild to moderate expleteive and insult. If you hit your thumb with a hammer you may shout "Bugger" or if someone is a rogue or a scoundrel they may be called "a bugger" though this is usually a couched complement. A "silly old bugger" is someone with little common sense. Although the term is a derivative of the word "buggery", in the sense it is used in older and more modern conexts, it has nothing to do with sodomy - actually, neither has "sod" but thats another story......