Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The song "All Around my Hat" (Roud 567, Laws P31) is of nineteenth-century English origin.[citation needed] In an early version, dating from the 1820s, a Cockney costermonger vowed to be true to his fiancée, who had been sentenced to seven years' transportation to Australia for theft and to mourn his loss of her by wearing green willow sprigs in his hatband for "a twelve-month and a day," in a traditional symbol of mourning.. }
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- All_Around_My_Hat_(song) comment "The song "All Around my Hat" (Roud 567, Laws P31) is of nineteenth-century English origin.[citation needed] In an early version, dating from the 1820s, a Cockney costermonger vowed to be true to his fiancée, who had been sentenced to seven years' transportation to Australia for theft and to mourn his loss of her by wearing green willow sprigs in his hatband for "a twelve-month and a day," in a traditional symbol of mourning.".