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Thread #35057   Message #3688841
Posted By: GUEST
22-Feb-15 - 01:38 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Oh, Jemima, Look at Your Uncle Jim...
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oh, Jemima, Look at Your Uncle Jim...
As well as the verse about Jim, My mother, of Surrey, Sutton, sang:

Oh Jemimah, look at your Aunty Kate,
She's on the duck pond learning how to skate,
First she does the aurora, then she does the glide!
Now she's underwater, swimming against the tide.


The tune was so very like a march in Gounod's opera Faust.