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Mrs More/Charlie Chaplin/Here Come Three Gypsies/Jack-a-Needle

Date 10 July 1961
Track ID 37189
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1961.44.A12

Original Tape ID

SA1961.044

Summary

Four children's rhymes for skipping and other games.

A rhyme:

"Mrs More sat upon the shore,
She had daughters three or more,
The eldest one was twenty-four
And married to a sailor."

Another rhyme:

"Charlie Chaplin went to France
To show the ladies how to dance,
And this is how he taught them:
Toe, heel, stamp-a-leerie,
Toe, heel, stamp-a-leerie,
Toe, heel, stamp-a-leerie,
This is how he taught them."

Another rhyme:

"There came three gypsies riding, riding, riding,
There came three gypsies riding, ee-i-o."

"What are you riding here for, here for, here for?
What are you riding here for, ee-i-o?"

"We're riding to be married, married, married,
We're riding to be married, ee-i-o."

"Marry why not us sir, us sir, us sir?
Marry why not us sir, ee-i-o?"

"You're all too dirty, dirty, dirty,
You're all too dirty, ee-i-o."

"We just clean the shoes sir, shoes sir, shoes sir,
We just clean the shoes sir, ee-i-o."

"If that's the case, I'll have one, have one, have one,
If that's the case, I'll have one, ee-i-o."

Another rhyme:

"Jack-a-needle, Jack-a-needle, I sew with my needle
And when I am married how happy I'll be.
I'll go to my granny's and sit there all morning
And whistle on my love for to come unto me."

Item Notes

'Mistress More' is Roud no. 14057.

For 'Charlie Chaplin' (Roud 19102) see:
'Games a Bogie' (M. Sinclair, 1989) p. 13
'Golden City' (J. T. Ritchie, 1965) pp. 85, 129
'Doh Ray Me, When Ah Wis Wee' (E. McVicar, 2007) p. 85
'Children's Games with Things' (P. & I. Opie, 1997) pp. 233-235

For '(Here Come) Three Dukes' (Roud 703) see:
Greig-Duncan vol. 8, p. 116
'Games a Bogie' (M. Sinclair, 1989) p. 50
'The Singing Game' (I. Opie, P. Opie, 1985) pp. 76-92
'Folk-Song of the North-East' (G. Greig, K. Goldstein, A. Argo, 1963 reprint) art. CLII

For 'Jack-a-needle' see:
'Dae Ye Min' Langsyne?' (A. Stewart Fraser, 1975) p. 118

Item Subject/Person

Chaplin, Charlie

Recording Location

County - Angus

Parish - Dundee

Village/Place - Dundee

Language

English

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Fair