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- From: feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld)
- Subject: Re: Anne Boleyn (With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm)
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- References: <RSHOLMES.92Dec29093636@rodan.syr.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:34:19 GMT
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- In article <RSHOLMES.92Dec29093636@rodan.syr.EDU> rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
- >The latest Sing Out! has "Anne Boleyn" (aka "With Her Head Tucked
- >Underneath Her Arm") in it. The penultimate line is given as
- >
- > "For how the sweet san fairy Anne do I know who you are"
- >
- >Two questions:
- >
- >(1) Is this accurate?
- >
- >(2) If so, what the sweet san fairy is "the sweet san fairy"? Is it
-
- (1) sounds inaccurate, because
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- (2) sounds like a variant on the traditional "sweet Fanny Adams",
- i.e., "s.f.a.", i.e., "sweet fuck all".
-
- Then again, it may not be a true story after all.
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