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Thread #160075   Message #3795337
Posted By: Jack Campin
13-Jun-16 - 11:44 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Trad songs featuring color
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trad songs featuring color
Clothing colours: in Scottish songs, the combination of yellow trousers and blue socks was a Masonic symbol (from the brass shanks and steel points of a stonemason's compass).

For a modern equivalent maybe there are songs about biker gang patches?