The Night Fatty Bolger Died (Rough MP3, Lyrics) (Patreon)

During my hobbit show on Coffee with The Celtfather last month, Nick Smith piped up and ask: "I wonder if you would remember a parody request I emailed you years ago called the Night That Fatty Bolger Died? I think I was 14 or so when I wrote the lyrics and sent that email to you!"

I hadn't thought of that song in ages. He wrote it as a parody of "The Night Paddy Murphy Died". It was a fun song. So on a whim, I recorded it and sent the song to Nick. 

He gave me permission to share the recording with you.

The Night that Fatty Bolger Died

words by Nick Smith, music traditional

Oh the night that Fatty Bolger died is a night I'll never forgetMerry and Pippin got roarin' drunk, and they're still not sober yet;As long as that bottle was passed around every hobbit was feelin' gayThen Gandalf came with the pipe weed, some smoke rings for to make

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Oh that's how they showed their respect for Fatty BolgerThat's how they showed their honor and their pride;They said "There's still more food for us!" and winked at one anotherOh every drink in the place was full the night that Fatty died

Now the Sackville-Bagginses were grabbin all his thingsWhile Bilbo sat with Gandalf a-blowin' some smoke ringsMerry and Pippin where running with some vegetables they stoleThey put the veggies on the corpse to keep those mushrooms cold

About three o'clock in the morning after emptyin' the jugFrodo rolled up the ice box lid to see poor Fatty's mugWe stopped the clock so Sam's old Gaffer couldn't tell the timeAnd at a quarter after three we argued it was nine

At eight o'clock in the mornin' the procession left the houseAnd everyone but poor old Samwise Gamgee was out sousedThey stopped a while in Bywater at the old Green Dragon InnWell they staggered in at eleven o'clock and didn't come out till ten

Well someone asked old Brandybuck if anyone had diedTed says he, "I'm not quite sure, I just came for the ride."They started out for the graveyard all holy and sublimeBut found out when they’d got there, they'd left the corpse behind!