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Thread #69349 Message #3074821
Posted By: Joe_F
14-Jan-11 - 08:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Smuggler's Song (Rudyard Kipling)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Smuggler's Song (Rudyard Kipling)
In Flanders & Swann's song "Bedstead Men" (on _At the Drop of Another Hat_) there is a line "So watch the wall, my darling, while the bedstead men go by", which clearly alludes to "A Smuggler's Song". They break into another tune when they sing it, and the audience laughs, which strongly suggests that they are quoting a tune that is (or was, ca. 1960) well established in Britain. It isn't the one on _A Folk Song a Day_.