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Thread #128113   Message #2865818
Posted By: MGM·Lion
17-Mar-10 - 04:38 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Roll Your Leg Over Public Domain?
Subject: RE: Origins: Roll Your Leg Over Public Domain?
"Thre's a rich history of "If all the girls.....Then I'd be". This particular one doesn't seem to have surfaced, as far as I can tell, before 1940 or so." Dick Greenhaus ===

WHICH particular one, Dick? There are 4 versions collected by Sharp 1903-6 in James Reeves, The Idiom Of The People, 1958, under heading Hares On The Mountain; none contains the actual words 'Roll leg over', but all the cut·stitches/tumble·fumble content is there.