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Thread #27705   Message #2597450
Posted By: Snuffy
25-Mar-09 - 08:35 PM
Thread Name: Origin: I'll Tell Me Ma
Subject: RE: Origin: I'll Tell Me Ma
Sam, Sam the dustbin man
Washed his face in a frying pan,
Combed his hair with a donkey's tail
And scratched his belly with his big toenail.


in NW England in the early 1950s this was a completely different song, with a different tune: nothing at all to do with She is handsome, she is pretty