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Thread #55013   Message #1259648
Posted By: Big Tim
30-Aug-04 - 03:02 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Raglan Road, is it 'pledge' or 'play' ?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Raglan Road, is it 'pledge' or 'play' ?
I don't think the Queen of Hearts was an actual place: cafe, pub, or whatever. Surely derived from the nursery rhyme,

The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
All on a summer's day,
The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
And took them clean away.

Queen of Hearts = "beautiful woman" (Queen Elizabeth I was the original "Queen of Hearts": more recently, Princess Diana).

Hilda Moriarty, the subject of the song, married another man in August 1947, the year after after "Raglan" was published.

Big Tim.