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Thread #123101   Message #2709035
Posted By: Azizi
26-Aug-09 - 11:56 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: We Wear Our Hair in Curls
Subject: RE: We Wear Our Hair In Curls
I've found several examples of "We are the georgie girls". I've posted some examples earlier in this thread and here's another one:

"I remember when i was 7 and in the brownies. We went on the pack holiday which was helped with supervision from the girl guides. Anyway they taught us all this song we used to sing in the evenings around a "campfire". When me and my friend came home singing it, our mothers were completely horrified. At the time i didn't see anything wrong with it - I was a nieve little 7 year old. But now i can't believe that the supervisors of the pack holiday let us sing it and can completely understand our parents horror.

Song lyrics below.

We are the geordie girls
We wear our hair in curls
we wear out dungarees right to our sexy knees
one day the boy next door
he got me on the floor
he said it wouldn't hurt
he stuck it up my skirt
my mother was surprised
to see my stomach rise
then she jumped for joy
it was a baby boy.

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:MtjK76iaWMcJ:www.veggieboards.com/boards/archive/index.php/t-32769.html+we+are+the+geordie+g
Veggie Board-Kids Songs-Oh Gosh

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For the purposes of folkloric research, a person writing that she or he learned a song "when I was 7 years old" is interesting. But it would be much more informative if the person noted which year she was (the "Brownies" identifies the person sharing this particular example as a girl).

But back to my question about "geordies", do any, most, or all of the examples of this rhyme that mention Geordies refer to people who live in "some parts of the north east of England, or the city of Newcastle upon Tyne?" [This description is from the Wikipedia page whose link is below]

It doesn't seem likely that the girl in the example above (from the Veggie forum) lived in England, unless there are Brownie troops in England [?] as well as in the USA.

Are some girls just repeating the "We are the Geordie girls" line and not substituting their city name, school name, or group name?

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See this Wikipedia page about "Geordies":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordie