Faustin Charles
Writer, poet and storyteller picks this week's tracks.
Faustin chose The Soldiers March from the opera Faust by Charles Gounod and the nursery rhyme Miss Lucy Has Some Fine Young Ladies.
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I was born in Tacarigua (Trinidad) and grew up knowing the O Jemima rhyme thinking it was about my English Uncle Jim ! My brother in law ( from Yorkshire) says he learnt the rhyme from his mother. Faustin Charles can't have made it up - so how did we both learn it in rural Trinidad ?
The version I know is slightly different :
....
Complain about this postFirst he does the breast stroke,
Then he does the side,
Now he's under the water
Swimming against the tide.
I was born in Hackney (East London) in 1925, and clearly remember singing Oh Jemima, but with slightly different words.
Complain about this postOh Jemima, Look at your Uncle Jim
He's in the bath tub learning how to swim.
First he does the breast stroke, then he does the side,
Now he's under the water, swimming against the tide.