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--- ins_circassian_circle [2026/06/10 14:03] – [Circassian Circle] nashjc
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 Nigel Kilby called this last version (usually progressive form) using a recording by
 the Ring O' Bells band {{ :oecdc:circassc.mp3 | BDP Circassian Circle}}
+This recording uses music hall tunes which can be sung along with the dance.
+These tunes have many variations in lyrics, but the following seem to more or
+less fit the music.
+<code>
+Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
+And smile, smile, smile,
+While you've a lucifer to light your fag,
+Smile, boys, that's the style.
+What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile
+so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
+And smile, smile, smile.
+===================================
+When you wore a tulip, a sweet yellow tulip, and I wore a big red rose,
+When you caressed me, ‘twas then Heaven blessed me, what a blessing,
+     no one knows.
+You made life cheerie, when you called me dearie, ‘twas down where the
+     blue grass grows,
+Your lips were sweeter than julep, when you wore that tulip and I wore a
+     big red rose.
+===================================
+My old man said follow the van, And don't dilly-dally on the way
+Off went the cart with the home packed in it, I walked behind with me
+      old cock linnet
+But I dillied and I dallied, And I dallied and I dillied
+Lost the van and don't know where to roam
+I stopped on the way to have the old half quartern, And I can't find
+      my way home.
+===================================
+It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long way to go. It's a long way to Tipperary, To
+the sweetest girl I know! Goodbye, Piccadilly, Farewell, Leicester Square! It's a long long
+way to Tipperary, But my heart's right there.
+===================================
+(Likely??)
+Sons of the sea, bobbin' up and down like this.
+Over the ocean, bobbin' up and down like this.
+You can build a ship, my friend, bobbin' up and down like this.
+But you can't beat the boys of the bulldog breed, bobbin' up and down like this.
+===================================
+Who were you with last night? Who were you with last night?
+It wasn't your sister, It wasn't your ma, Ah ah, ah ah, Ah ah ah ah!
+Who were you with last night, Out in the pale moonlight?
+Are you going to tell your missus, When you get home,
+Who you were with last night?".
+===================================
+Goodbye Dolly, I must leave you, Though it breaks my heart to go
+Something tells me I am needed at the front to fight the foe
+See, the soldier boys are marching and I can no longer stay
+Hark! I hear the bugle calling, goodbye Dolly Grey
+</code>