Brothers St. John, The

DESCRIPTION: "We are Two Irish Maltese." "We're the twins, tinga linga ling (x2), We're the Brothers St. John and you know where we're from. When we're out, There's no doubt, We're so much alike in our figure and height." They often visit the seaside together
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1987 (Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy)
KEYWORDS: sailor travel
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy, pp. 138-139, "The Brothers St John" (1 text, with tune on p. 154)
NOTES [84 words]: I will confess to finding Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy's text of this hard to understand. Is it about homosexuality or something else? I'm not sure. I do find it interesting that the Knights of St. John, or the Hospitallers (members of the "Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem) settled in Malta in 1530 after being driven out first from the Holy Land then the Ottoman Empire. Napoleon had driven them out of Malta in 1798, when they moved to Rome, but they were long remember in Malta. - RBW
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