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Thread #102149   Message #2067046
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
03-Jun-07 - 05:37 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Lily Bolero/Lilliburlero
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lily Bolero
There are lots. It's usually written as Lilli Bulero.
This is a rather complicated explanation from Contemplator about how it was used in 17th century Ireland as an anti-Catholic rant.

What people usually want when asking about it is what Barry Dransfield sang on Morris On as Old Woman Tossed Up In A Blanket:

There was an old woman tossed up in a blanket
99 times as high as the moon
And where she was going I couldn't but ask her
For in her hand she carried a broom.
'Old woman, old woman, old women' quoth I
'O whither, O whither, O whither so high?'
'To sweep the cobwebs off he sky'
And I'll be with you by and by.

I think, from memory. It's a bit too early to annoy the neighbours with THAT CD.