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Marie Lloyd: My old man...

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My old man said, `Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!'
But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied,
Lost the van and don't know where to roam.

Source: Song, Don't Dilly-Dally on the Way, 1919; in Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, by Tony Augarde, 1991.
-- Marie Lloyd, (Feb 12 1870-1922), English singer; She was a music-hall artiste of the late 19th century, who became well known in the London, or Cockney, low comedy then popular.


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