In school we had words to "Gabriel's Message" "Most highly flavoured gravy, gloria" instead of "...favoured Lady" as a small boy my father recalls a song (it's probably Peter Dawson's rendition of a song I think is called "The Stein Song") the last two lines of which he always reckoned were: "I want to be a Life-Guard With my finger in a hard-boiled egg" I never have discovered the proper lyrics. I remember a St. Albans shopkeeperin the 1950s called Mr Mercer who was always singing a song I heard as "Hard Eggs By The Number", which I later learned was "Heartaches By The Number" There was a 60s song by Herman's Hermits called "Silhouettes On The Shade", I always reckoned they were singing: "Let me in or else I'll pee, down your door"..
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