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Thread #97222   Message #1912066
Posted By: Goose Gander
17-Dec-06 - 04:53 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Weevily Wheat
Subject: RE: Origins: Weevily Wheat
Over the water, and over the lee,
And over the water to Charley.
Charley loves good ale and wine,
And Charley loves good brandy,
And Charley loves a pretty girl,
As sweet as sugar candy.

From Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes of England

, Collected chiefly from Oral Tradition (London: John Russell Smith, 1846), p.7