ID: 1033
Date: 1920s
Title: The flies crawled
Gender: Male 
Classification: Scout song 
Rhyme: 

The flies crawled up the window,
That's all they had to do.
They went up in the hundreds,
And came down two by two.

(Christchurch, 1920s)

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Background Info: Sung when troughs of kerosene were put at the bottoms of windows to trap flies - scout camps. (Personal informant)

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Location: Christchurch 
Group size: 6 
Incidence: 1