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[Opinions] Re: no, it isn't made up ...
Mabel Mabel set the table
Don't forget the salt and pepper
Vinegar! Vinegar! Vinegar! (Nova Scotia variant.)also
Charlie Chaplin went to France
to teach the ladies how to dance
Curtesy to the queen, bow to the king
And turn your back on the Kaiser's Jack.That must be an old one, even I am not old enough to remember the Kaiser.
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South African variantCharlie Chaplin went to France
To teach the ladies how to dance
Bow to the king, kneel to the queen
And turn your back on the German submarineSabre-rattling stuff, and obviously pretty old. Also very difficult to achieve the third line without falling over. Amazing how children's rhymes can last, like Ring-a-ring-a rosies being about the Great Plague.
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