Brahn Boots
Brown shoes at a funeral? Could anything be more improper?
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Stanley Holloway's recording Brahn Boots is about just such a terrible breach of social decorum. It was often to be heard on BBC during my childhood.
Most of Holloway's monologues were performed with a Northern accent. For Brahn Boots he reverted to a Cockney accent (he was, after all, born in London). The text shows how the writers, R.P. Weston and Bert Lee, intended it to be delivered.
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