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Thread #18352   Message #829679
Posted By: GUEST,Penny S. (elsewhere)
19-Nov-02 - 06:56 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Playground songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
Further up on this thread I have attributed a particular rhyme about school dinners to my school. I have now better recall. The first two lines,

Say what you will, school dinners make you ill,
And Davy Crockett died of shepherd's pie,

arrived at our private school from a local secondary modern in Folkestone via a girl with friends there. The second two lines,

All school din-dins
Come from pig bins,

I remember a group of us making up. I gather from other threads that this version has been known in other places. It would be interesting to trace the other places and dates if possible - the year of the Fess Parker Disney film would be probable, if it fits with the Southern Television programme Out of Town, which used the tune as its theme. The South of England would be likely, too, because of the local nature of the programme.

Parallel evolution is possible, of course.

Any help?

Penny