Difference between revisions of "Broadest way"

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* '''''s Cockles and Mussels:''''' "Through streets broad and narrow"
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* '''Through streets broad and narrow:''' a line from the popular Dublin street ballad ''[[Cockles and Mussels]]''
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[[Category: Song lyrics]]

Revision as of 04:17, 9 November 2006

  • Broadway: a street in New York → supposedly built by Irish labourers like Tim Finnegan
  • Bygmester Finnegan ... lived in the broadest way: s Finnegan's Wake: "Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street
  • broad: liberal minded; immoral
  • Through streets broad and narrow: a line from the popular Dublin street ballad Cockles and Mussels