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27 Aug 02 - 06:50 PM (#772530) Subject: Queen, Queen Caroline From: GUEST,Helen Hi, I grew up in Swinton. Lancashire and as a young girl we had a swimming game that was accompanied by a chant about Queen Caroline dipping her head in the Serpenine. Can anyone help me with this verse. I really don't think there is a tune , more of a child's chant. Thanks, H. |
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27 Aug 02 - 07:57 PM (#772570) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Queen, Queen Caroline From: Malcolm Douglas Queenie, Queenie Caroline, Dipped her head in turpentine, Turpentine to make it shine, Queenie, Queenie Caroline. - Girl, 9, Annesley [Nottinghamshire] (The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, Iona and Peter Opie, 1959.) |
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27 Aug 02 - 11:52 PM (#772697) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Queen, Queen Caroline From: masato sakurai A. From: Roger D. Abrahams and Lois Rankin, eds., Counting-Out Rhymes: A Dictionary (University of Texas Press, 1980, p. 195):
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Usually a taunt. Also found as a jump-rope rhyme; see JRR, p. 184 ("Sweet, sweet Caroline").
Bolton (1888), 116 [Edinburgh, Scotland].
B. From: Roger D. Abrahams, ed., Jump-Rope Rhymes: A Dictionary (University of Texas Press, 1969, p. 184):
(535)
Also a counting-out rhyme.
Douglas (1916), 61 [London]. ~Masato
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28 Aug 02 - 04:14 AM (#772779) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Queen, Queen Caroline From: masato sakurai Other varinats:
(1) From HERE (this seems to be a song).
Queen, Queen Caroline,
(2) From HERE.
Queen, Queen Caroline, |
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28 Aug 02 - 05:39 AM (#772798) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Queen, Queen Caroline From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Somewhere I heard that the turpentine version of this was a taunt because washing hair with turp. was to get rid of the lice! |
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28 Aug 02 - 10:49 AM (#772930) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Queen, Queen Caroline From: GUEST,Pat Darlington There is a (Scottish?) version which has "Gipsy, gipsy Caroline" washing her hair in turpentine, with a second verse which replaces turpentine with "V.P. wine" (V.P. is one of a family of cheap, potent and generally disgusting fortified wines popular with those in central Scotland who want to get wasted frequently and don't have a lot of dough - see also Buckfast, Lanliq, Four Crown, Eldorado, Melroso...) |
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28 Aug 02 - 11:17 AM (#772952) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Queen, Queen Caroline From: masato sakurai "Gipsy, gipsy Caroline" is collected as a ball bouncing rhyme in NW England (See this page). |
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30 Aug 02 - 09:48 PM (#774608) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Queen, Queen Caroline From: GUEST,Helen |
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30 Aug 02 - 11:10 PM (#774635) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Queen, Queen Caroline From: masato sakurai Helen, what's the swimming game like? ~Masato |
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31 Aug 02 - 10:26 PM (#775032) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Queen, Queen Caroline From: Layna Queen, queen Caroline - the swimming game : You join hands in a long line with the end person touching the side of the pool. The person at the other end swims under the arm of the first bringing everyone with him/her. Then they swim between the next people and so on. Each person ends up turned around with their arms crossed in front of them, then the end people join hands and make a circle. Then you chant the Caroline verse and dip your head into the water. |
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31 Aug 02 - 10:37 PM (#775036) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Queen, Queen Caroline From: masato sakurai Thanks a lot, Layna. ~Masato |