"have ever been"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Tristan Jones mentions it in one of his books as a drinking song in the Royal Navy.

  Though some of his well-known writings have turned out to be complete fiction (including _Heart of Oak_, an excellent and evocative "memoir" of WWII) Jones did serve from 1946 to 1959.

  JL

"Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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Ron writes:
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I remember a drinking song from college (or was it from Boy Scout camp?)
that had the line, "One is one and all alone and ever more shall be so."

<<<

That's "Green Grow the Rushes"
(http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2413), which I can imagine
being used as a drinking song though I have never heard it that way.

-- Mark A. Mandel, The Filker With No Nickname
http://filk.cracksandshards.com/

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