Chinese Government

DESCRIPTION: "Chinee love a girl": white man's daughter or black man's daughter. The wind blows high (sometimes, with a big sea) and blows the girl away, or gives her a black eye.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1926 (King's _Street Games of North Sheilds Children_, according to Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame)
KEYWORDS: love sea playparty
FOUND IN: Britain(England(North),Scotland(Aber,Bord,High)) Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame 93, "Chinese Government" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 110, "Chinese Governor" (1 text)
Roud #13241
File: OpGa093

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