do you know this tune?
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do you know this tune
Hi there
When I was a kid many many moons ago we used to play it on all black keys...From fading memory I think it had words such as:-
Oh will you wash my fathers shirt
Oh will you wash it clean
Oh will you wash my fathers shirt
And dry it (or hang it) on the ??????? (can't remember the last word sorry).
When I was a kid many many moons ago we used to play it on all black keys...From fading memory I think it had words such as:-
Oh will you wash my fathers shirt
Oh will you wash it clean
Oh will you wash my fathers shirt
And dry it (or hang it) on the ??????? (can't remember the last word sorry).
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Post by Gill the Piano »
...line. As in washing line; that's the last word. I think it would only rhyme if you sang it with a Geordie accent - even then not terribly well. Those are the words I know to the tune as well!
Hi,
Yes, I dropped my dolly in the dirt seems to be the popular title, with the composer and lyrics (lyrics?) down as traditional.
I remember bashing the tune out many times on the black keys in my childhood, but never singing the words - they wouldn't seem right coming from a boy. Not in those days anyway.
Rgds.
Yes, I dropped my dolly in the dirt seems to be the popular title, with the composer and lyrics (lyrics?) down as traditional.
I remember bashing the tune out many times on the black keys in my childhood, but never singing the words - they wouldn't seem right coming from a boy. Not in those days anyway.
Rgds.
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Re: do you know this tune?
Post by Barrie Heaton »
Did You Wash Your Father's Shirt" or "John Doherty's"
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Di ... s_Shirt%3F
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https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Di ... s_Shirt%3F
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