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07 Oct 02 - 02:58 PM (#798412) Subject: does anyone know this tune? From: GUEST,gillian i posted a msg on this site on 5th oct,and now i cant find if anyone replied or not.does anyone know this song? my grandma used to sing it to me.
old mother magee peed in the sea can u help me? gill |
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07 Oct 02 - 04:09 PM (#798456) Subject: RE: Help: does anyone know this tune? From: Sorcha Your other thread is here (CLICK) and no, we haven't found it yet. I was finally able to do a SuperSearch and it didn't turn up. I'll go refresh the other one for you. |
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07 Oct 02 - 04:11 PM (#798459) Subject: RE: Help: does anyone know this tune? From: MMario I tried spelling "Magee" every way I could thing of, and still didn't find it. |
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07 Oct 02 - 04:21 PM (#798464) Subject: RE: Help: does anyone know this tune? From: Sorcha Me too, Mario, and I tried without the Magee. There is a peed in the sea rhyme here, but not that one. |
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07 Oct 02 - 04:45 PM (#798472) Subject: RE: Help: does anyone know this tune? From: Jim McLean I remember a chant I knew as a kid; Desperate Dan, peed in the pan, The pan was too wee, So he peed in the sea, The sea was too wide so he peed in the Clyde, And all the wee fishes. Ran up his backside. This was chanted and not sung. Jim Mclean |
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07 Oct 02 - 05:04 PM (#798475) Subject: RE: Help: does anyone know this tune? From: Nerd I think Jim is on to something; this sounds like a kids' parody song, which can exist in many versions and not get noted by scholars, so it may not be retrievable. |
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07 Oct 02 - 06:14 PM (#798498) Subject: RE: Help: does anyone know this tune? From: GUEST What about trying the names MacKee, McKeeor even Mackey?? |
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07 Oct 02 - 06:22 PM (#798504) Subject: RE: Help: does anyone know this tune? From: Sorcha Regardless of that, I would think "peed in the sea" would find it if it were out there. |
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08 Oct 02 - 01:31 AM (#798685) Subject: RE: Help: does anyone know this tune? From: weerover A couple of phrases in the song put me in mind of different ditties to the same tune, i.e. "The Girl I Left Behind Me", if this is of any help |
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08 Oct 02 - 03:39 AM (#798726) Subject: RE: Help: does anyone know this tune? From: Nigel Parsons The name is similar, as is the scansion, that this could alsmost be a verse of the bawdy version of Maggie May. "They were tattered they were torn, Round the crotch piece they were worn, Those old red flannel drawers that Maggie wore, They were hemmed in they were tucked in They're the ones that she'd been .... Those old red flannel drawers that Maggie wore" Nigel |