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Thread #35877   Message #497800
Posted By: Jacob B
03-Jul-01 - 05:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Black Joke (Adderbury Morris dance)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Black Joke (Adderbury Morris dance)
Around Boston, the women's teams would sing:

Here's to the Morris, may we dance it well And pass it on to our daughters. Here's to our baldrics, and here's to our bells And chuck your bonny green garters.

I recall a morris ale when the women threw actual green garters into the audience as they sang the last line of the song. Of course, since the audience was entirely morris dancers, they replaced the word "chuck" with something that made more sense.

Jacob