My father who was born in Derbyshire in 1931, went to school in Shropshire and was in The South Wales Borderers used to say this rhyme to annoy me as a child when I asked for a story:-
It was a dark and stormy night And the captain said to the mate "Aaaaaay mate tell us a story. And this was the story he told.
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winterfish
It was a dark and stormy night.
Date: 2015-09-06 10:41 pm (UTC)It was a dark and stormy night
And the captain said to the mate
"Aaaaaay mate tell us a story.
And this was the story he told.
It was a dark and stormy night etc etc