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Thread #49618 Message #3052273
Posted By: MGM·Lion
13-Dec-10 - 03:57 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: John John the grey goose is gone
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: John John the grey goose is gone
Perhaps worth stressing that "town" in this song is used in the old sense of "farm" ~~ still I think surviving in parts of Scotland as "toon". Nothing ∴ to do with more recent phenomenon of the 'urban fox'.