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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, and the probably not

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - "Session musicians in Newmarket, County Cork" [Sullivan].

Printed sources : - Beisswenger (Irish Fiddle Music from Counties Cork and Kerry), 2012; p. 15. Sullivan (Session Tunes, vol. 3),; No. 17, p. 7.

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). Tara 10029, Seamus Ennis - "The Best of Irish Piping."

See also listing at :
See also listing at Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1].

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-|f_annotation='''CHASE ME CHARLIE'''. Irish, Slide (12/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See note for "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:
+|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>
 ''Auntie Mary had a canary,''<br>
 ''Up the leg of her drawers;''<br>
-''She pulled a s tring to hear it sing,''        or:      ''She was sleepin', I was peepin',''<br>
+''She pulled a string to hear it sing,''
-''And down came Santa Claus.''                         ''Up the leg of her drawers.''<br>
+''And down came Santa Claus.''
+or:
+''She was sleepin', I was peepin',''<br>
+''Up the leg of her drawers.''<br>
 <br>
 CHO:<br>
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 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, and the probably not
 |f_source_for_notated_version="Session musicians in Newmarket, County Cork" [Sullivan].
-|f_printed_sources=Sullivan ('''Session Tunes, vol. 3'''),; No. 17, p. 7.
+|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). 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/].
 }}