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Thread #147952 Message #3433361
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
08-Nov-12 - 07:29 PM
Thread Name: Randy Dandy O
Subject: RE: Randy Dandy O
Still no tune for Hey Randy Dandy, though I did come across this at Levy:
She's Sweet As Sugar Candy, Oh! or Galloping Randy, Dandy, Oh, written and composed by C.J.Sansom, published in London by H. D'Alcorn & Co., 351 Oxford St., no date.
which has the chorus:
Oh I, oh I, oh
She's as sweet as sugar candy, oh,
We're going to be wed in a week or so
Galloping Randy Randy oh.
If, as Hugill says, galloping was a camouflaged word in the printed choruses (of the shanty), it seems at least possible that it came from galloping in the first place!
Mick