The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57274 Message #900423
Posted By: Desert Dancer
28-Feb-03 - 11:56 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Susan Reed: Cockles & Mussels?
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Susan Reed: Cockles & Mussels?
Leenia, which side of the pond was your father born on & singing on?
Given the song's undoubted music hall origins, I have no problem with the "faver" - "save her" rhyme. "Relieve her" sounds like unwarrented prettying up, to me.