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"Eggs and Marrowbone" (Laws Q2, Roud183]) is a traditional folk song of unknown origins and multiple variations. The most well known variations are "The Old Woman From Boston" and "The Rich Old Lady". Other versions include "The Aul' Man and the Churnstaff", and "Woman from Yorkshire." In Scotland it is known as "The Wily Auld Carle" or "The Wife of Kelso." In Ireland there are variations called "The Old Woman of Wexford" and "Tigaree Torum Orum." A more recent version originating in America without the "marrowbones" is known as "Johnny Sands."〔 Herbert Hughes writes that the song is English in origin. See Roud (183 ) ==Subject== The song concerns an old woman who, in one popular version, loves "her husband dearly, but another man twice as well." She resolves to kill him, and is advised by a local doctor that feeding him eggs and marrowbone will make him blind. Thus
She then arranges to push him into the river. He steps aside and she falls in. Subsequently,
Despite his blindness, the old man manages to keep her from climbing out of the river by pushing her back in with a pole. The moral of the song is:
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