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Thread #146243 Message #3385557
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
03-Aug-12 - 09:00 AM
Thread Name: Origins: O Landlord, have you any fine wine?
Subject: RE: Origins: O Landlord, have you any fine wine?
The song is more likely to have been "Three German Officers Crossed the Rhine." After asking for wine, they ask for the landlord's "daughter fine."
Sometimes there are two officers, or just one.
During 1914-18 the song mutated into "Hinky Dinky Parlez-Vous."
The "Three Pirates" version looks like a chaste parody for children, and not very often encountered.