LL-L "Literature" 2004.07.19 (06) [E]

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From: Hugo Zweep <hugo.zweep at valuersillawarra.com.au>
Subject: LL-L "Literature" 2004.07.19 (03) [E]

Silly me. I have been looking at this "kip kap keugel" thinking on how
familiar the rhythm of the verses seemed. Not being religious, the St
Maarten bit didn't ring a bell either. Now the bell has rung and the penny
has dropped.

When I was young, in Winschoten, Groningen (the Oldambt area and therefore
close to the German border) during the 1940s, a group of us would go out at
one night during November. We'd have candle lighted lanterns. Paper ones
that folded like a concertina so that you could tend to the candle. Then we
would sing "Kip Kap Kogel ..." after we knocked on a door or rung the bell
and someone opened up.

We'd always be given something. I only remember sweets but there could have
been other things. We would also sing a thank you and then go on our way to
the next house. When we'd have had enough we usually divided the spoils
amongst a group of from 5 to 10 children. I still can't see paper lanterns
without having nostalgic and quite specific memories.

Look up www.sillius.nl/groningana/sintmaarten.html We sang some of those
rhymes especially the second one and I have some recollection of the second
one to be sung if we were refused.

Geuko Zweep

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