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07-02-2009, 01:41 PM
Originally Posted by catrinsparkles 
I've just remembered there was an old black and white film called Fanny by Gaslight.....but not sure why we would be called after a film!
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07-02-2009, 01:55 PM
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
that's the rhyme I heard in a film once .. the kiddies were singing it in the playground..
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07-02-2009, 02:01 PM
Originally Posted by MissE
Nippy, I would have thought Lizzie Dripping referred to Lizzie Borden - and the dripping was the blood. She was accused of murdering her mother and father...
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
that's the rhyme I heard in a film once .. the kiddies were singing it in the playground..
I deny it, I am innocent I tell you, innocent
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07-02-2009, 02:04 PM
http://www.allsands.com/history/peop...nbi_zrz_gn.htm
I haven't read it all but I can assure you I am not that old either
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