It dates back to the seventeenth century, appearing in Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript as a song named "The Sea Crabb" based on an earlier tale.

A man brings a crabfish (most likely a common lobster) home as a gift for his wife and puts it in the chamber pot.

Well, I took the crayfish home, and I thought he'd like a swim So I filled up the chamber pot, and I threw the bugger in By the way side high diddly aye do

It's the ending of me story; I don't have any more I've an apple in me pocket, and you can have the core By the way side high diddly aye do "Johnny Daddlum" is the Irish version of this song.

"[5][6][7][8] A sanitised version of "The Crabfish," expunging the straightforwardness of the original in order to make the song available for child audiences, was released in recent[when?]