LL-L "Games" 2004.08.31 (01) [E/S]

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From: Thomas <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "Games" 2004.08.26 (03) [E/S]

 Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org> wrote
> See a tait mair anent this bi masel in the airchives at:
Thanks for this reference Sandy most interesting and here was me thinking
part of it could have had something to do with the kids bowing to the
lamplighter. :-)
I first came across it in a pageant of sketches commemorating Edinburgh's
Moray House 300th anniversary. I was at school there at the time and acted
in one sketch. In another during the19th century one of the Cowan girls then
resident there was depicted reciting it to Sir Walter Scott who responded
with..
"As Ah gaed up bi Mumbo Jumbo,
Mumbo Jumbo jineo,
'twas thair ah met the Hokey Pokey caerien awa Caprineo.
Noo gin Ah hud ma tit fur tat,
Mah tit ma tat ma tineo
Ah widnae gie it tae Hokey Pokey, fur caerien awa Caprineo."
Please nobody ask what it means :-)
Regards
Tom
Tom Mc Rae PSOC
Brisbane Australia
"The masonnis suld mak housis stark and rude,
To keep the pepill frome the stormes strang,
And he that fals, the craft it gois all wrang."
>>From 15th century Scots Poem 'The Buke of the Chess'

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From: Thomas <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "Games" 2004.08.30 (08) [E]

> Subject: LL-L "Games" 2004.08.30 (08) [E]
John Feather johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk wrote...
> There is a skipping rhyme which I have from Great Yarmouth in Norfolk
> which replaces the last word with "jump", meaning "skip with a rope": the
rope
> is called a "jump rope". I don't know much about the distribution of
"jump"
> and "skip" for this activity but "jump" is the US term I've heard on TV.
In edinburgh we always referred to this rope as a "Jumpin' Rope" and the
game as "Jumpin'". Even our parents thus referred to it.
The more genteel members of Society including school teachers encouraged us
to say "Skipping" instead but as usual it did not take much of a hold.
Most spectacular games involved a big cawed jumpin rope with several kids
doing their stuff simultaneously.  Most co-ordinatedgame  involved two boys
each approaching from opposite ends. As they reached the centre they recited
"Passin' the Doctor" (Both touched their foreheads) "Bow Wow Wow".
Then they quit the rope to "One Two Three". Took some doing.
Regards
Tom
Tom Mc Rae PSOC
Brisbane Australia
"The masonnis suld mak housis stark and rude,
To keep the pepill frome the stormes strang,
And he that fals, the craft it gois all wrang."
>>From 15th century Scots Poem 'The Buke of the Chess'

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