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Thread #79570 Message #1442311
Posted By: GUEST,Gadaffi
24-Mar-05 - 04:11 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Down by the Old Mill Stream
Subject: Down by the Old Millstream
Back in the early 1980s, there was a woman called Ruby who played piano on Sunday nights at the Fox at Bucks Green on the Sussex-Surrey border. Brendan and Chrissie Buckley (now living in Northumbria) learnt it and used to sing it at the Guildford folk club.
One of the songs was 'Down by the Old Millstream'. Chorus goes:
Let's go out tonight, tonight,
The moon is shining bright tonight,
I see the twinkle in your eyes,
Lie Lie Lie.
Everyone is watching us, watching you and I
Let's go round the corner and have a bit on the sly.
The song strikes me as music hall/variety. Does any Catter know its provenance? Can anyone else recall Ruby, and even what her surname was? If so, what else did she sing?
See: "We All Just Knew Her as Ruby"