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Thread #103975   Message #2124366
Posted By: greg stephens
12-Aug-07 - 05:45 PM
Thread Name: Arabic & African names in English songs & stories
Subject: RE: Arabic & African names in English songs & stories
Sambo's grave(referred to earlier in this thread as the subject of an Alan Bell song)is in fact at Sunderland Point near Lancaster(England), not Southport.
There is a popular English fiddle tune called Sultan's Polka(I don't know anything about it's origin). Its first theme is used for the nursery rhyme:
One two three four five
Once I caught a fish alive.