trivia quiz!

[darkroomman]

See if you can answer this...

Dance dance
The shaking of the sheets
Dance dance
When you hear the Piper playing
Everyone must dance
The shaking of the sheets
With me

What does "shaking of the sheets" refer to, and who is the Piper?

Comments

[dark_fey]

Hmmm. Only two things it is suggested that everyone must do. Pay taxes and die. So, my guess is dying and the piper is Death. However, the tax man and filing taxes almost makes more sense. That is almost obscene how much either fits the bill... :)

[darkroomman]

You are very very close! You're right about the piper, and "the shaking of the sheets" is the act of laying out the dead with a winding sheet. The song is old English.

[enchantedpagan]

Geez I must have been way off, I figured shaking of the sheets refered to sex and the piper was the Green man.....Oh by the way I am enchantedpagan and I thought you might be interesting....

[darkroomman]

Was I? ;)

Shaking of the Sheets

[angel_of_ennui]

It's a bit of a cheat, but I did a paper on this song at university.
The shaking of the sheets is the preparation for the making of a death shroud, the piper then is death.

Now I have to go and fish out that song and listen to it again.