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Originally Posted by skysidhe
um, you're talking to a person who wishes it was still the 17th century and maypoles weren't outlawed
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When I was in kindergarden on May Day we did a maypole dance with a real maypole (not the playground toy by the same name, which is no doubt no longer to be found.) singing "Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow". I seem to recall that we were dressed in pilgrim garb for the occasion...and it was only the Pilgrims who outlawed the Maypole. Trying to put the lid on handfastings and "greenwood marriages" apparently.
The tradition survives in the time-honored rhyme I didn't learn until college:
Hoorray hooray
For the tenth of May
Outdoor fucking
Begins today