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Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	21 Dec 2004 23:09
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	..the geese are getting fat
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	21 Dec 2004 23:10
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	please put a penny in the old man's hat if you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do if you haven't got a ha'penny God bless you! I used to recite this when I was a child. It's only recently that I've realised how sad it is. nell
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 6 614 Send Message	Essex Baz	Report	21 Dec 2004 23:24
	Hiya Nell, Anything less than a pound today, and carol singers look at you in disbelief. Baz.
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Pat	Report	21 Dec 2004 23:31
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Hi Nell You seem melancholy? this rhyme and the Workhouse thread? I found this about the rhyme: The charitable lyrics of "Christmas is coming" poem! The lyrics of the poem "Christmas is coming" associate the Christmas feast with geese which are eaten in traditional English Christmas feasts. The meaning that is conveyed to a child in "Christmas is coming" is that the festive period is where each should give to charity, according to their means... even if all they could give was their blessing (If you haven't got a penny...) Bet it was hard if you couldn't spare a ha'penny. Pat x