We and They

DESCRIPTION: "Father, Mother, and Me Sister and Auntie say All the people like us are We, And every one else is They. And They live over the sea, While We live over the way, But -- would you believe it? -- They look upon We As only a sort of They!"
AUTHOR: Rudyard Kipling
EARLIEST DATE: 1926 ("Debits and Credits," according to the Kipling Society web site)
KEYWORDS: mother father food | customs foreigners
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 176, "Father and Mother and Me" (1 fragment)
Roud #25466
File: KSUC176B

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