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Thread #94024 Message #1821854
Posted By: Rumncoke
29-Aug-06 - 01:52 PM
Thread Name: Hornpipe Origins
Subject: RE: Hornpipe Origins
I have this bit of doggeral in my memory - about a girl/woman
something something something her beauty(?) does excell.
And for the hornpipe round she bears away the bell.
The bell I supose being a prize or award.
Which seems rather odd as females, round dances and hornpipes aren't exactly three things you'd think of as usually going together.
I like Captain Pugwash too - even the way the legs went round and round rather than the usual way of walking.
Anne