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|f_tune_annotation_title=https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Chase_Me_Charlie > | |||
'''CHASE ME CHARLIE'''. Irish, Slide (12/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See note for "Cock of the North | |f_annotation='''CHASE ME CHARLIE'''. AKA and see "[[Cock of the North (3)]]," "[[Lean mé a Chathail]]." Irish, Slide (12/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See note for "[[annotation:Cock of the North (3)]]," of which "Chase me, Charlie" is a version. The title comes from a bawdy ditty sung to the tune in the Ireland, Britain and Scotland, called "Auntie Mary (had a canary)" in many places, or "Chase Me Charlie." The words go: | ||
<blockquote> | <blockquote> | ||
''Auntie Mary had a canary,''<br> | ''Auntie Mary had a canary,''<br> | ||
''Up the leg of her drawers;''<br> | ''Up the leg of her drawers;''<br> | ||
''She pulled a | ''She pulled a string to hear it sing,'' | ||
''And down came Santa Claus.'' | |||
or: | |||
''She was sleepin', I was peepin',''<br> | |||
''Up the leg of her drawers.''<br> | |||
<br> | <br> | ||
CHO:<br> | CHO:<br> | ||
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''And she kicked him where it hurt.''<br> | ''And she kicked him where it hurt.''<br> | ||
</blockquote> | </blockquote> | ||
The latter is obviously a more recently composed verse, with its reference to a bikini, but there must be dozens of such doggerel verses in the tradition. Not incidentally, "Chase me, Charlie" is the title of a Charlie Chaplin comedy film from 1918 | The latter is obviously a more recently composed verse, with its reference to a bikini, but there must be dozens of such doggerel verses in the tradition. Not incidentally, "Chase me, Charlie" is the title of a Charlie Chaplin comedy film from 1918. | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version="Session musicians in Newmarket, County Cork" [Sullivan]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Beisswenger ('''Irish Fiddle Music from Counties Cork and Kerry'''), 2012; p. 15. Sullivan ('''Session Tunes, vol. 3'''),; No. 17, p. 7. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Gael Linn CEF176, Jackie Daly - "Many's a Wild Night." Globestyle Irish CDORBD 085, The Kerry Fiddle Trio (Padraig O'Keefe, Denis Murphy, Julia Clifford) - "The Rushy Mountain" (1994. Reissue of Topic recordings). RTE 174CD, Padraig O'Keefe & Denis Murphy - "The Sliabh Luachra Fiddle Master" (1995, originally recorded in 1948-49, played in a medley with "I'd Rather be Married than Left," and "The Kilcummin Slide"). Tara 10029, Seamus Ennis - "The Best of Irish Piping." | |||
|f_see_also_listing=See also listing at Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/307/]. | |||
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Latest revision as of 05:33, 6 March 2024
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CHASE ME CHARLIE. AKA and see "Cock of the North (3)," "Lean mé a Chathail." Irish, Slide (12/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See note for "annotation:Cock of the North (3)," of which "Chase me, Charlie" is a version. The title comes from a bawdy ditty sung to the tune in the Ireland, Britain and Scotland, called "Auntie Mary (had a canary)" in many places, or "Chase Me Charlie." The words go:
Auntie Mary had a canary,
Up the leg of her drawers;
She pulled a string to hear it sing, And down came Santa Claus. or: She was sleepin', I was peepin',
Up the leg of her drawers.
CHO:
Chase me, Charlie, find my barley
Up the leg of me drawers;
Don't believe me, come and feel me,
Up the leg of my drawers.
Uncle Jock, he had a sock,
Up the pleat of his kilt;
When he was a-sleepin, we were a-peepin,
To see how well he was built.
Cousin Minnie wore a bikini,
Underneath her shirt;
A handsome guy he tried to spy,
And she kicked him where it hurt.
The latter is obviously a more recently composed verse, with its reference to a bikini, but there must be dozens of such doggerel verses in the tradition. Not incidentally, "Chase me, Charlie" is the title of a Charlie Chaplin comedy film from 1918.
