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Thread #2278   Message #2202057
Posted By: GUEST,Guest. David Jones
25-Nov-07 - 07:05 PM
Thread Name: Depressing Christmas Songs
Subject: RE: Depressing Christmas Songs
A parody on The Mistletoe Bough is The Workhouse Boy where instead of hiding in a trunk, he falls into a very large kettle of soup and isn't found until years later when the other orphans have finished the soup. As for Christmas Day in the Workhouse, the version I remember from school in London is:
T'was Christmas day in the workhouse, the snow was falling fast,
We don't want your christmas pudding, stick it etc. etc.