ditty

• Vocalists Nick Krill and Thomas Hughes have a great high-low harmony going that carries throughout the song; but it has to be said that their almost-lazy delivery style leaves the listener wondering a bit what this ditty is all about. —  Spinner
• The ditty, which is about what it's title says it's about, and which made its legend on YouTube, where its lyrics can be enjoyed in all their uncensored glory, defeated the likes of "Everything Comes Down to Poo," from —  E! Online (US) - Top Stories
• But when the Irishman called on the whalers for a ditty, a fine-looking youth sang a song of the "Homeward Bound," in a voice so sweet and true, that the spirit of the men was changed, and many a moistened eye told that deep chords of sympathy had been touched Can you play the fiddle?" —  Philosopher Jack
• It was a common saying One's grief, two's mirth Three's a marriage, four's a birth and another rendering of the above heard in Montgomeryshire was One for bad luck Two for good luck Three for a wedding Four for a burying Another ditty is as follows One's joy, two's greet (crying Three's a wedding, four's a sheet (death As stated above, one is grief, or bad luck, if it flies from right to left, but if from left to right it implied success or joy. —  Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
• Strangely enough, his ditty was a popular Spanish refrain of some matador's aristocratic inamorata Do you see my black eyes I am Manuel's Duchess sang Pereo, with infinite gravity. —  Maruja

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