How old is Tom?! 'Ashes' seem to be American, 'Atishoo', English. Oral variants!
At 10.51 14/02/98 -0500, you wrote:
>The version I recall from childhood includes the line "Ashes, ashes, all
>fall down." But that may be an alternatives version of "Atchoo."
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And then God brought merrily to my mind David and other . . . Magdalen,
Peter and Paul, Thomas and Jude, how they are known in the Church on earth,
with their sins and it is to them no shame, but all is turned to worship.
Julian of Norwich, _Showings_, Paris Manuscript, fols. 68-68v.
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