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Thread #163430 Message #3899422
Posted By: Steve Gardham
13-Jan-18 - 06:09 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: meaning of 'gal with the blue dress on',
Subject: RE: Folklore: meaning of 'gal with the blue dress on',
Or indeed Music Hall
'Girl with a blue dress on' by Tom MacLagan 1827-1892
Doesn't even have to be blue
The Girl in the Khaki Dress
The Girl in the Pinafore Dress
Or the more famous Harry Clifton's 'The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue' of 1862.
'Oh I love a little gal across the sea
She's a 'Badian beauty and she says to me