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Ok everybody, you can join Helen by clicking on http://homepage.tinet.ie/~mdgprimary/molly.htm and singing along with her. As an inducement (well to some of you perhaps), this site has a picture of the statue showing her cleavage (Molly's not Helen's I hasten to add, oh HELP I'm digging a deeper hole  ) to full advantage. Rod
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Alas-- Helen does not have any cleavage! -- there would be no mistaking me for Molly!
Helen comes from a family like James Joyce-- who in one of his autobiographical short stories spoke of a mother who " was considered a large breasted woman, in a country known for large breasted women"
the family joke when speaking about breast is "Oh, she bigger on top then you are Helen-- but then every one is! (this was refering to a not quite 13 year old neice)-- It used to bother me, but not any more!
Put she does look a bit like a tart-- with her the neckline cut so low... and i bet she has her pettycoats tucked up into her apron, and is showing off a well turn ankle--
yeah, right, like there is an irish woman alive with a "well turned ankle"-- do they still sell "peggy's legs" candy sticks down at the sea shore Rod? well named they are!
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Rodward said: and her in her best bib and tucker with her new Tile[should know can't remember]"Tile" might be a hat as well, though I don't know what the second part of the rhyming pair would be, if there is one. There is a song that goes: "Where did you get that hat, where did you get that tile? Ain't it a nobby one and just the latest style? I would like to have one, just the same as that. Wherever I go they shout 'Hallo, where did you get that hat?'" This is how I remember the song, which would then be all about a hat=tile. However, I have also heard the first line as "Where did you get that hat, that collar and that tile?". Which brings my leetle contribution loudly crashing to the ground!  Marianna
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Marianna -- your recollections of the song are almost spot on. It was written by James Rolmaz in 1888 and the words (in my printed copy) are:
1st verse (of five)
Now how I came to get this hat, 'tis very strange and funny,
Grandfather died and left to me his property and money;
And when the will it was read out, they told me straight and flat,
If I would have his money I must always wear his hat!
Chorus
"Where did you get that hat? Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it a nobby one, and just the proper style?
I should like to have one just the same as that!"
Where'er I go they shout, "Hello! Where did you get that hat?"
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Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee,
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!
Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee?
Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee?
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!
Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane
Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd
Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall ha' to bury thee
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall ha' to bury thee
Then we shall ha' to bury thee
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
etc.....
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Speaking of statues with rhyming names reminded me of a famous artwork at Notre Dame University in Indiana, USA, which is neither a statue nor has a rhyming name. In view of the football stadium, at a religious University where football is a religion, is the (in)famous Touchdown Jesus. For those unfamiliar with merican football, the figure in the piece is postured as if he were an official signaling a score. Here he is: http://www.12thfan.com/images/touchdown_jesus.jpg
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I have no idea if these are original but I thought them up this weekend for other famous (= I know of them) statues.
The Dame with the Flame (aka The Vamp with the Lamp)
The Dish like the Fish
The Tar on the Spar
The Bloke with the Smoke
Rod
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