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Thread #35057 Message #4140676
Posted By: GUEST,James Marchment Australia
30-Apr-22 - 12:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Oh, Jemima, Look at Your Uncle Jim...
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oh, Jemima, Look at Your Uncle Jim...
Tune of Soldiers' Chorus from opera «FAUST» by Charles Gounod. In Cubs AND YMCA when I was 7, 8, >.. We also had «Oh, Jemima look at your Auntie Kate. She's in the icebox learning how to skate. First she does the two-step, then the Figure Eight. Now she's on her backside sliding out the gate.» (other verses disposed of most of the family in similarly resourceful exploitations of limited learning environments.