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Thread #56449 Message #2722399
Posted By: MGM·Lion
12-Sep-09 - 01:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Dogger Bank / Grimsby Fisherman
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Dogger Bank' - help w. some words
I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied : "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied. by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) , "The false heart", from Verses, published 1910
- from which it seems that a Ribstone Pippin is proverbially an apple on whose quality one can rely.
I have always wondered whether juber-ju has any connection with 'jube-jube' a jelly-sweet much beloved of children when I was one: thus imparting a sense of 'sweetness & soft amiablility' [as in addressing someone as 'sugar-lump'. I have known this song for many years from Peter Bellamy's 'Fair England's Shore' LP 1968, where he attributes it to Sam Larner.