Take her by the lily white hand,
Lead her to the water,
Give her gifts and make her cry-
She's the old man's daughter!
And then someone on screen tells us about something that happened in 1957. Sheesh, was I really contemporary with all of this? But of course I was. I checked with the Radio Times this morning. The film was made in 1959- when I was eight- approximately the same age as the ring-dancing girls.