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    Jack in the Green

    - the pageant mummer of medieval England, was especially associated with the chimney sweeps' May Day festival.

    One of the sweeps, encased in a framework about 6 - 10 feet high made of lath and hoops and entirely covered with green holly boughs and ivy topped with flowers and ribbons, danced at the head of a line of chimneysweeps who advanced and capered and sang through the town, collecting pennies.

    They were accompanied by a fiddling fool and two other performers in red and yellow with tin whistle, black-encircled eyes, etc.

    (Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend)

    all we need now is a Fiddliing Fool, 2 performers in red and yellow with whistle and a sweep !

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