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Thread #2385 Message #1833624
Posted By: Lighter
13-Sep-06 - 01:08 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mademoiselle from Armentières
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mademoiselle from Armentieres
Thanks, GUEST, for a version that I'd heard of but not seen. Definitely laundered and revised for early TV, though several of the verses had already appeared in popular collections. ("Brushing her tooth" and "putting on her hair" are interesting novelties, though.)
Did some censor decide that "Brest," pronounced as though it were English, was risque' enough to be changed to "France"? That doesn't even rhyme!