The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55188   Message #857478
Posted By: Abby Sale
02-Jan-03 - 05:56 PM
Thread Name: Hogmanay
Subject: RE: Hogmanay
:-) Well then, Charles, we'll have to delve into the "happy?" file and come up with something else for today. Won't do for me to be half-hour behind the Simpsons...

How about this?

Sam Pepys' diary entry for 1/2/1666:
"In perfect pleasure I was to hear her [the actress, Mrs. Knipp] sing, and especially her little Scotch song of Barbary Allen."

(per Child, Lomax/FSNA & Chappel/Roxburghe)