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Thread #123870   Message #2731758
Posted By: MGM·Lion
26-Sep-09 - 10:02 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye
Subject: RE: Origins: Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye
To complicate matters: the Australian tune to this title, played on a couple of youtube clips, & which seems to be the one Joybell was referring to initially in her OP, is not related to the tune "Girl Left Behind/Brighton Camp", to which my cockney children's version of the same name is set, as Sandy Paton related 11 years ago in his posting on a thread re the origins of 'Girl·I·Left', which Joybell found by searching the title.

*How*, one can only wonder, did the Australian dance come to acquire so bizarre a title, which, with no words to go with it, doesn't seem to make a lot of sense? Was it written originally by a cockney immigrant who remembered the title from a song he had sung in Whitechapel Road or Mile End as a child, and arbitrarily gave it to his new tune? Or how?