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Thread #110318 Message #2313458
Posted By: Azizi
12-Apr-08 - 12:38 AM
Thread Name: Origins: I've Been to Haarlem, I've Been to Dover
Subject: RE: Origins: I've Been to Haarlem, I've Been to Dover
Lemonade!?!
In the first post that Malcolm Douglas linked to, the beverage was "liquor":
"A favourite game at harvest supper was "Turn the cup over", presided over by a self-appointed chairman. Each man in turn had to drink all the beer from a horn cup placed on the crown of a hat, while the company sang:
I've been to London, boys, I've been to Dover I've been a-travelling, boys, all the world over Over and over, over and over Drink up your liquor and turn the cup over."
-snip-
Eventually references to "liquor" turned to "brandywine". And overtime, this hard drinking men's song became a children's song and "liquor" and "brandywine" changed to "lemonade".
Well,at least in my school, folks were given a choice of "drink[ing] what you want to drink".