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Thread #11034 Message #2756370
Posted By: MGM·Lion
31-Oct-09 - 02:31 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: One Two Three O'Lairy (Count Basie, 1940)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One-Two-Three-O'Lairy (Count Basie 1940)
Peter & Iona Opie give the WallaceBeery/ShirleyTemple version in The Lore & Language of Schoolchildren [1959], ch 7: attribd 'Edinburgh c1940; Girl, 14, Kirkcaldy, 1952, for ball-bouncing.'
They also give
One, two, three a-lairy, My ball's down the airey, Don't forget to give it to Mary, Not to Charlie Chaplin.
'... heard recently in Camberwell and Hackney' [districts respectively of S & E London] '... reported as current in Montreal...'