Grandy Needles

DESCRIPTION: "Grandy Needles, Grandy Needles, set, bump set! Through the long lobby we go, we go." Thread grandmother's needle. Open the gates for King George and his lady. It is too dark to see how to thread grandmother's needle.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1912 (Partridge)
KEYWORDS: playparty royalty
FOUND IN: Britain(England(North,South)) West Indies(Jamaica)
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame 2, "Grandy Needles" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: J.B. Partridge, "The Game of 'Thread the Needle' and Custom of Church Clipping" in Folklore, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (Jun 1912 (available online by JSTOR)), p. 200 ("Grandy needles, thread your needles - set! set! set!") (1 text)
J.B. Partridge, "Cotswold Place-Lore and Customs (Continued") in Folklore, Vol. XXIII, No. 4 (Dec 1912 (available online by JSTOR)), p. 446 ("Thread the needle to begin") (1 text, 1 tune)
Martha Warren Beckwith and Helen Roberts, _Folk-Games of Jamaica_ (Poughkeepsie: Vassar College, 1922 ("Digitized by Internet Archive")) #31 pp. 38-39, "Thread the Needle" (4 texts, 3 tunes)
Marjorie Rowling, _The Folklore of the Lake District_, Rowman and Littlefield, 1976, p. 114, "(Grandy Needles, Grandy Needles, set, bump set") (1 short text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Thread the Needle" (game) and references there
NOTES [28 words]: The "Grandy needles, thread your needles ..." text from Partridge is associated with a "Thread the Needle" game played until about 1860 in Cumbria on Easter Tuesday. - BS
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