> We used to sing it years ago - as kids in school when you used to have
> to sing rounds and stuff. yeah, those lily white boys always made me
> wonder.
For some reason, I keep getting echoes of Shakespeare's "Golden lads and
girls all must / Like chimney sweepers come to dust", but I suspect that's
off-base.
Glad the lily white boys grabbed you too, Jill -- so it's not just me.
Cheers,
Robin
[When the Vladamir one of the Vladamir and Estragon couple in Nottingham
library batted me over the ear with it yesterday, my first thought was that
it was Irish, and that the Lily White Boys would tie into something like the
Molly McGuires. But that doesn't hold up at all. Pity, but ...
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