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From: "royseston" <>
Subject: [DBY] Derby tup
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 20:08:27 +0100


I am over 70yrs.but when i was a boy i played the part of the tup. my "costume




I am over 70 yrs.old and was born at Creswell and spent my schooldays there. when i was still a small boy i played the part of the tup. my "costume" was a potato sack with the two corners tied with string.i expect this was supposed to make them look like ears!. Sarah's e-mail is about right but we sang a few words different-"to make a pair of aprons to last them forty years and "to make a pair of footballs for they were just the size " also our chorus was "fey ley ,fey ley , fey ley nanny go ley." we used to 'do' our play at the Comrades club ,the Dicks club and anywhere else we could manage to get into. i have forgotten so much about it but i do remember being pleased that i had the potato sack over my head,nobody knew who i was and all i had to do was fall over when the 'butcher' stuck me with his knife. i wasn't very old.

roy









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