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Thread #146257   Message #3385877
Posted By: MGM·Lion
03-Aug-12 - 10:08 PM
Thread Name: Over the hills and far away.
Subject: RE: Over trhe hills and far away.
Another ref ~ In Dorothy L Sayers detective novel of 1933, Murder Must Advertise, Lord Peter Wimsey, disguised as an advertising copywriter disguised as a harlequin [still with me?],plays the tune on a penny whistle to lure and fascinate the rich playgirl Dian de Momerie, thru whom he hopes to discover who is running London's drugs trade. Sayers gives the words as "Tom Tom the Piper's son Learned to play when he was young. The only tune that he could play Was 'Over The Hills And Far Away'."

~M~