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Thread #15605   Message #715004
Posted By: Joe_F
21-May-02 - 08:47 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Bit of the ruin that Cromwell knocke
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bit of the ruin that Cromwell knocke
Not in Davison's _Songs of the British Music Hall_. But he does give the following information about Marie Lloyd:

She collapsed on the stage singing the last lines of a song...appropriate to her circumstances -- a third song of hers that has lived on -- "I'm one of the Ruins that Cromwell knocked Abaht a Bit." It was her last public appearance: she could not make the second performance on that day; and, three, days later, she was dead.