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The Pearly costume

[Music] I have my crown rather a spelling done and then my whistle with all my buttons on like Jaws but I bet the old rolls don't know how to do this we had to move away because...

Course: Travel, culture and local lifeSection: London's Pearly traditionSubtitles: en

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[Music]

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I have my crown rather a spelling done

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and then my whistle with all my buttons

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on like Jaws

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but

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I bet the old rolls don't know how to do

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this

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we had to move away because the rent we

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couldn't pay the moving van came round

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just after dark

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oh well you can't trust especially was

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like the old-time coppers when you can't

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find your way and get off me Para

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I'm dying Gould I'm the Pearly queen of

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Saint pancreas part of the Pearly Royals

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my Royal duty is a pearly Queen

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um is to go and raise fun and funds for

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Charities the Pearly Royals date right

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back to Victorian times among London's

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fruit and vegetable sellers known as

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Costas and the local orphan and rat

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catcher called Henry Croft

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Legend has it he stumbled across a

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Shipwrecked Crate by the Thames filled

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with sixty thousand Pearl buttons he

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sewed them all onto an old suit and used

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it to raise money for his orphanage the

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suit was such

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