Mother Brown??

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>Maybe 'Knees Up Mother Brown' (you have to
>be English to get that!
>
>Ben
>
>>


What is that? I have heard that somewhere on an album, probably a British
band (Beatles?), where someone sings that line over and over at the end of
another song. Always wondered what the hell it was.

Mike Berman
digiboy at erols.com


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Well, 'Knees Up Mother Brown' is a popular singalong song in the public
houses (pubs) of South and East (especially East) London. It's a bawdy (and
quite possibly lewd and crude) song, intended to be sung around a pub piano
when everyone's having a merry old time (i.e. pissed). This is in the days
before the jukebox and karaoke and all that jazz of course. The song
itself is full of Cockney Rhyming Slang, as example of which is 'apples and
pears'; 'apples and pears' translates as 'hairs' (or more simply 'hair') in
C.R.S.

I'm sure a web search of ''Knees Up Mother Brown' and 'Cockney Rhyming
Slang' would yeild some more interesting and lucid comments than mine ;-)

Ben

>
>>Maybe 'Knees Up Mother Brown' (you have to
>>be English to get that!
>>
>>Ben
>>
>>>
>
>
>What is that? I have heard that somewhere on an album, probably a British
>band (Beatles?), where someone sings that line over and over at the end of
>another song. Always wondered what the hell it was.
>
>Mike Berman
>digiboy at erols.com


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