In reverse- I've just posted in that very thread how I learned the song before I was five, at Girl Guide camps in England. I was not an official member of course as I don't have the requisite number of ovaries (ie, none). I still sing it some years later, with additional verses. I was later a Boy Scout, before shorts were abolished and the organisation became a middle class baby-sitting service, and they never sang the good stuff that the girls sang. The love of singing which I got from camping with my mum's Guides never left me, which accounts for my dive into Folk Clubs when I left school and most of my life until now. Go Girls and sing!
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