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Lily The Pink (SIR 377)  Paul Bristow   (The Scaffold)

 

OPENER - MIDDLE BREAK – CLOSER

Well – FOUR LADIES CHAIN – straight across the ring

You CHAIN THE LADIES right on home you go
You join your hands CIRCLE LEFT go walking ‘round the ring

ALLEMANDE LEFT your Corner WEAVE THE RING
We'll drink, a-drink, a-drink to Lily the pink, the pink, the pink
SWING your Girl – and PROMENADE her home
For she invented, medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case

 

 

FIGURE

Now the HEADS SQUARE THRU – count it FOUR hands around you do

To the Corner TOUCH A QUARTER, SCOOT BACK and go

BOYS RUN RIGHT - a RIGHT AND LEFT THRU turn her tonight

LADIES LEAD IN DIXIE STYLE

Now the BOYS CROSS RUN - SINGLE HINGE – SCOOT BACK

SWING your CORNER, PROMENADE her home

For she invented, medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case

 

 

TAG: SWING with your Girl – Most efficacious in ev-ery ca-a-ase!

 

 

Original Lyrics:

 

We'll drink a drink a drink to Lily the pink the pink the pink
The saviour of the human race 
For she invented medicinal compound 
Most efficacious in every case 

Mr Frears had sticky out ears 
And it made him awful shy 
And so they give him medicinal compound 
And now he's learning how to fly 

Well Ebenezer thought he was Julius Caesar 
And so they put him in a home 
Where they give him medicinal compound 
And now he’s emperor of Rome 

Jennifer Eccles had terrible freckles 
And the boys all call her names 
But she changed with medicinal compound 
And now she joins in all their games 

Lily the pink she turned to drink she 
Filled up with paraffin inside 
And despite her medicinal compound 
Sadly piccalilli died 

Up to heaven her soul ascended 
For the church bells they did ring 
She took with her medicinal compound 
Hark the herald angels sing