David wrote:
> I wonder what lyrics you mis-heard as a youngster???
> 
> Many of mine were hymns. I recall one in particular:-
> Gwennie Thomas, Gwennie Thomas, to take up his jewels, All the pure 
> ones, All the bright ones, To make up his crown......
> 
> Gwennie was a Catholic girl who lived up that end of our street, and

> I never could understand what she was doing in a Methodist hymn :)
> The actual words were "When He Cometh". Wonder what a child would 
> make of that today!!!
> 

Well, there was the teddy bear hymn: Glad Lee, my cross-eyed bear ...

Margery.
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