“The Freemason's Song (I)”
Description
"In the year of eighteen hundred and three I took a notion a Freemason to be." For his initiation he has to ride a goat, sit on a chair and "they threw me a sign from the nose to the chin saying This is our sign since Freemasons begin."
Notes
Greenleaf/Mansfield notes that "When a man was initiated into the Freemasons he was supposed to ride a goat for five hundred miles, they said"; "This is a variant of 'The Freemason' popular on stage in the sixties." - BS
References
- Greenleaf/Mansfield 114, "The Freemason's Song" (1 text)
- Roud #17746
- BI, GrMa114