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Thread #45352   Message #2757196
Posted By: Howard Jones
01-Nov-09 - 08:55 AM
Thread Name: Gig bloopers - did I sing that???
Subject: RE: Gig bloopers - did I sing that???
I used to sing the ballad "William Taylor". This is one of those songs where a young woman enlists in the army to find her true love, only to be discovered when her waistcoat falls open and shows her womanly charms. This is followed by the words:

"Then the sergeant stepped up to her
Asking what had brought her here"

Later, after she's discovered her true love with another woman and shot and killed them both, comes:

"Then the captain stepped up to her
Pleased well at what she'd done"

So of course, one night I sang, straight after she'd exposed her lily-white breast,

"Then the sergeant stepped up to her
Pleased well at what she'd done"

I'm sure he was, too.