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My guess it"s a sort of translation error, St. Agnes is a personification of the Latin Agnus Dei-Lamb of God. She has no association with water or maritime occupations unlike say, St. Lucy, patroness of Seamen, Railroaders, (from the lamp angle and eye problems-again clear the light. On the other hand, if the song was set in Brooklyn and one might add- giving the wherabouts of the peasant- Nigh the scenic railway track, by st. Joseph"s Fountain- well poetic license for Stilwell avenue! The avenue honors Gen. Joseph Stilwell, and there is something watery about still-well.I have heard this parody. Probably the fountain was some error of translation or something in the Czasech language which would not be grammatical- like runing (O Christmas Pine for tannenbaum to stretch the sylabbles. I never liked that song(Wenceslas) AND IF ONE CAREFULLY STUDIES THE LYRICS my guess is the (Bum) or peasant beggar assassinated King Wenceslaus. The song taskes place ont he feast of Steven, who ws the first martyr- done in by stoning. all refrenes inthe past tense. Moral to the story, don"t be kind to bums.

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