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Thread #6188   Message #103195
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08-Aug-99 - 05:57 PM
Thread Name: John Tams Sharpes Rifles series
Subject: RE: John Tams Sharpes Rifles series
Mathew the Miller
[in Frank Purslow's 'The Wanton Seed', with music]

I clapped my hand upon her knee,
"What's this my love, what's this my dear?"
"Tis my knee-a-nap, I-go-leer,"
Knee-a-nap, toe-a-ap, tit-a-tap in,
Where Mathew the miller the malt grinds in.

Subsequent verses have:

Rump -swager-arse
Belly- plimp-sack
Breast- bumpers
Neck- gudgel-pipe
Chin- chin-a-chop
Mouth- grinders
Nose- snorters
Eyes- lookers
Head- raggy locks