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Thread #72395 Message #1247157
Posted By: GUEST,Anne Croucher
13-Aug-04 - 06:37 PM
Thread Name: Origins: tailor's britches (or breeches)
Subject: RE: Origins: tailor's britches (or breeches)
I think this was sung by the Elliots in Barnsley Yorkshire before I left home in 1969.
I use several different twists - I use the rhyme claim and dame rather than decared and maid in the third verse - which isn't.
In petticoats the tailor they swiftly did adorn
The maid the tailor's britches she very soon put on
rather than 'she quickly did adorn' which feels clumsy.
I usually repeat the last line so the audience can join in with the best bits.
Anne