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Thread #15074 Message #4109822
Posted By: GUEST
12-Jun-21 - 09:34 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: The Big Ship Sails
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Big Ship Sails
“Illee.. Allee…oh” was the lyric I learned in Glasgow tenements 60 years ago - I am fully resonating with the French theory .. at first when I looked this old children’s thread the needle game song up and saw references to “Alley Alley oh” I thought I’d misremembered. This surprised me as sounds and music are obsessively remembered by me.
I also lived and worked in France and “there in the water” (il y a l’eau) OF COURSE is what we sung as kids. I have pas du doubt