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Jim Dixon Lyr Req: Queen Victoria's Goolies (5) RE: Lyr Req: Queen Victoria's Goolies 25 Feb 14

From a memoir by Harold Lander:
    There was a song the best-known verse of which began:

    "Queen Victoria very good man
    Plenty pani in the can
    Plenty pani plenty rooti
    ….."

    (pahnee-water; roottee-bread).

    But there was a verse that I preferred. It may have been written by some more than usually perceptive white but more probably by a downtrodden Indian.

    "Seven long years you fucked my daughter
    Now you go to the Blighty Sahib
    May the boat that carries you over
    Sink to the bottom of the pani Sahib."

    (Blighty was a colloquial word that was a corruption of an Indian word. It became very popular with the troops during World War I, 1914-1918.)

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