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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
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 hes 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