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Where do the words Too late too late she cried as she waved her wooden leg in the air come from?
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∙ 13y ago
I'd long wondered about this as my dad used to say it often during my childhood (1950s) and by the time I thought to ask him (1990s) he'd forgotten he'd ever said it!
I read in a dictionary of slang that wooden leg meant the gallows so constructed a theory that it concerned a hanging .. but have gathered no evidence to date to support this. Still, its a start (or an ending).
I have always understood that the lines were:-
Too late she cried and waved her wooden leg
The child's a boy
I hope this might enable one of the experts to throw some light on this incredible expression that my mother (Australian) always used.
I don't think she ever mentioned the second line, The child's a boy, but somebody definitely told me that this was the line to follow.
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