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Thread #107409   Message #2226840
Posted By: GUEST,Jack Campin
02-Jan-08 - 02:22 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The lad with his trousers on
Subject: RE: Origins: The lad with his trousers on
Can't remember that one, but "Come ashore jolly tar with your trousers on" ýs the earliest version of the tune now known as "The Cuckoo's Nest". It's from Elizabethan England.