Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 8:47:55 PM, Meredith wrote:
MD> Richard wrote:
>> There is a version of "It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse" in
>> Parlour Poetry ISBN 0 906324 13 0 published by This England Books
>> 1989. by George R. Sims.
MD> This poem is widely available on the Web and off, since of
MD> course it is long out of copyright. Here's one of the more
MD> attractive web links:
MD> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/lit/xmasday.html
MD> No one could reasonably describe it as bawdy, however.
MD> Melodramatic, maybe, but not bawdy. So, as Richard has said in a
MD> part of his post I didn't quote, there may be another poem of
MD> that name, though I've never heard of one.
There are certainly a number of bawdy parodies. The only one to hand
is "It was Christmas Day in the Brown House", in Martin Page's
"'Kiss me Goodnight, Sergeant Major', the Songs and Ballads of World
War II" - but I've vague memories of much bawdier versions being
recited when I was at school.
But we're getting way off topic, so I'd better stop there :-)
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Best regards,
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