ArleneĪrlene mentioned other sayings in an earlier email: My grandmother had an old victrola with the wind up handle and, “It’s a long way to Tiperarie it’s a long way to go it’s a long way to Tiperarie, to the sweetest girl I know…” and of course, “There’ll be blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover” which everybody old knows. We did a lot of ball bouncing:Īnd we eat Apples, and so on through the alphabet. I know so many rhymes and sayings from 1940 and during the war when we could roller skate down the center of a no longer busy street (no gas, no rubber, no young men), holding hands and singing, “Coming in on a wing on a prayer…”. Here are a couple, along with what Arlene had to say about the times… I felt these are important to try to preserve. Quite a while back, Arlene Charest wrote me with some rhymes and sayings she remembered from growing up in the 1940’s. You can imagine life in another time or place. It’s similar to how I enjoy hearing different languages. I love to hear the different ways people spoke in the past.
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