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**Please note that if you press the Reply button to respond to this mailing, it will be distributed to everyone on the Childlore List. If you want to make a personal reply, you will need to modify the Reply-To line of your message.** great, thanks for these versions! > Message du 23/05/13 19:52 > De : "Jane Stemp Wickenden" > A : [log in to unmask] > Copie à : > Objet : Re: BBC radio 3 program on Frère Jacques - parody as requested > > **Please note that if you press the Reply button to respond to this mailing, it will be distributed to everyone on the Childlore List. If you want to make a personal reply, you will need to modify the Reply-To line of your message.** > > Andy, > > Not sure you would want to *hear* me singing it! I suppose it is not so much > a parody as a song to the same tune, and it is embarrassingly puerile (well > I was only 9). The year must have been about 1970, because I recall both my > brothers joining in, and they're 2 years and 5 years younger than me. We > lived in the south of Surrey, about 20 miles from London. > > Ahem... > > Squashed tomatoes, squashed tomatoes > Irish stew, Irish stew > Soggy semolina, soggy semolina > I feel sick, I feel sick. > > (what is it about the British schoolchild and squashed tomatoes?) > > I've just asked my husband, and he remembers a version whose first two lines > were > > Bread and butter, bread and butter > Spotted dick, spotted dick > > - this seems likely to be the original to judge by the matching rhymes? It > was about 1964, and he was living in north-west London. > > For the purposes of clarification I should perhaps add that "spotted dick" > is the name for a rolled-up, boiled, suet pudding filled - often sparsely - > with currants. > > > Jane > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The Children's Folklore Mailing List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > On Behalf Of Andy ARLEO > Sent: 23 May 2013 15:11 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: BBC radio 3 program on Frère Jacques > > **Please note that if you press the Reply button to respond to this mailing, > it will be distributed to everyone on the Childlore List. If you want to > make a personal reply, you will need to modify the Reply-To line of your > message.** > > Thanks, Jane. I would love to hear, or have the words, to your parody! > > > > I just got a message from the producer (below), in case you want to listen > to the program in the next week. > > > > cheers, > > > > andy > > > > Dear Andy, Adam and Richard, > > > Im very pleased to let you know that my feature on Frere Jacques, titled > Are You Sleeping, Brother John will be broadcast TONIGHT (Thursday 23rd > May) at around 8.15pm UK time on BBC Radio 3, in the interval of live in > concert. > > > > You can listen to it live, anywhere in the world at the BBC Radio 3 homepage > www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 - and for 7 days after transmission (UK only) at > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sj122 > > > > > > > > > Message du 21/05/13 22:45 > > De : "Jane Stemp Wickenden" > > A : [log in to unmask] > > Copie à : > > Objet : Re: BBC radio 3 program on Frère Jacques > > > > **Please note that if you press the Reply button to respond to this > mailing, it will be distributed to everyone on the Childlore List. If you > want to make a personal reply, you will need to modify the Reply-To line of > your message.** > > > > Well done Andy! > > > > My brothers and I drove my mother mad by singing a parody of this in the > > 1970s... > > > > Here is the exact link to the programme: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sj122 > > > > Jane > > > > > > > > > > Jane Stemp > > > > Waterbound (Hodder, 1995) / Secret Songs (Hodder, 1997) > > contributor: The Sixpenny Debt - The Lost College - The Bodleian Murders - > > The Midnight Press / & other Oxford stories (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 > > [forthcoming]) > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: The Children's Folklore Mailing List > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > > On Behalf Of Andy ARLEO > > Sent: 21 May 2013 15:01 > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: BBC radio 3 program on Frère Jacques > > > > **Please note that if you press the Reply button to respond to this > mailing, > > it will be distributed to everyone on the Childlore List. If you want to > > make a personal reply, you will need to modify the Reply-To line of your > > message.** > > > > Dear All, > > > > > > > > BBC Radio 3 will be airing a program on Frère Jacques on Thur May 23 > around > > 8:15pm UK time. Thanks to Julia Bishop, I was contacted and interviewed by > > the producer. You can listen to it live at: > > > > > > > > www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Andy > > >