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Thread #62396 Message #3859040
Posted By: GUEST
05-Jun-17 - 10:46 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Ballad of Bethnal Green (Paddy Roberts)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of Bethnal Green (Paddy Roberts)
May I be rather pedantic?
"She was blond and dumb . . "
should be
"She was blonde and dumb . . "
It's one of the few adjectives in English that agree with the noun.
Sorry about that. Think of this as Pedant's Corner.
I recall singing this round the piano at school with a couple of pals and the words and music have never left me. It was quite new then. I left school in 1961 after A-levels.
Another Paddy Roberts song at the end of the musical score book went along the lines of:
When she was young she was pretty
And nobody called her a cow.
She had a face like a lily
Take a look at the bloody thing now
That's All (sung quaveringly)
Alan E