[lit-ideas] Re: with or without Bush
- From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:05:08 -0400
God, now he's stealing off my Playlist.
Erin
Toronto
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:56 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: with or without Bush
>
> > As
> > counterfactuals go this is a dilly, as they say in Memphis.
>
> I'll have you know that "dilly" hasn't been said in Memphis since late
> December back in '63. Oh what a night. My girlfriend sang a lullaby to
me
> though I was ten plus nine, you see, oh what a night!
>
> Lavender's blue, dilly dilly,
> Lavender's green
> When you are King, dilly dilly,
> I shall be Queen
>
> Who told you so, dilly dilly,
> Who told you so?
> 'Twas my own heart, dilly dilly,
> That told me so
>
> Call up your friends, dilly, dilly
> Set them to work
> Some to the plough, dilly dilly,
> Some to the fork.
>
> Some to the hay, dilly dilly,
> Some to thresh corn
> Whilst you and I, dilly dilly,
> Keep ourselves warm
>
> Lavender's blue, dilly dilly,
> Lavender's green
> When you are King, dilly dilly,
> I shall be Queen
>
> Who told you so, dilly dilly,
> Who told you so?
> 'Twas my own heart, dilly dilly,
> That told me so.
>
> Setting the record straight,
> Mike Geary
> Memphis one dilly of city and quite silly
>
>
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