Pancakes and fritters
Song on the bells of Derby on foot-ball morning, a custom now discontinued:
“Pancakes and fritters,
Say All Saints and St. Peters;
When will the ball come,
Say the bells of St. Alkmun;
At two they will throw,
Says Saint Werabo;
O! very well,
Says little Michel.”
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