So farewell then, "drunken sailor"...
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I loved the bit at the end of this story.
However, a study in 2004 showed that nursery rhymes exposed children to far more violent incidents than an average evening watching television - including Humpty Dumpty's serious head injury.
However, a study in 2004 showed that nursery rhymes exposed children to far more violent incidents than an average evening watching television - including Humpty Dumpty's serious head injury.
Sailors were pretty much perpetually drunk back then, and thats how the navy liked it.
Because of course it couldn't have been a "drunken pirate"...
Depends on the meaning of the words "pull out", "plug", "wet" and "all over". And, to a certain extent, "him".
(aorry)
God help the folk movement if some people ever sit down and go through some of the folk songs - they can be rather ribald and filled with a lot of innuendo.
Though some of them would raise a few hackels to day. There's a song called Little Sir Hiugh where a young boy is murdered by his mother a verse has the local Jews being blamed.
Oh and I gather there's a 6th verse to the God Save the King/Queen that's rather derogatory about the Scots.
Though some of them would raise a few hackels to day. There's a song called Little Sir Hiugh where a young boy is murdered by his mother a verse has the local Jews being blamed.
Oh and I gather there's a 6th verse to the God Save the King/Queen that's rather derogatory about the Scots.
Ah, the controversial 4th verse:
I believe that was actually a made-up verse added during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.
Some even made an anti-French verse too...