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Thread #118069   Message #2552074
Posted By: bubblyrat
29-Jan-09 - 12:41 PM
Thread Name: Origins: point of nonsensical refrain folk music
Subject: RE: Origins: point of nonsensical refrain folk music
I used to do an Irish song with the chorus ;
With me in-twing-of -an-in-thing-of- an-ido,
With-me-in-twing-of-an-in-thing-of-an-iday-ay,
   With me roo-boo-boo-roo-boo-boo-randy,
   And me lab-stone keeps beatin' away.

       Or something like that.Nobody ever asked what it meant,which was just as well,really.

    As to the Shakespearian one mentioned earlier---well,it's pure Anglo -Saxon filth. "Nonney" is an Old English word for a part of the female anatomy.In this case,we have an archetypal lusty English farm labourer,tending the fields with his agricultural implement ( viz,a hoe),who fortuitously (or otherwise) encounters a fair maiden taking the morning sunshine with skirts immodestly lifted,laying in a hay-stack.Siezed with uncontrollable urges upon sighting the Furry Purse, he exclaims " Whither Hay ! And a Hoe ( euphemism) And a --Hey ! Nonney ! -----to which the reply is "No !" or "KNOW !" (biblical) depending on the time of the month.
                  We all know that (in England,anyway).