Thanks, Eliseu! Rosemarie rcap...@gmail.com Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 3:38 AM, Eliseu Pacheco da Silva < eliseuman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kathlene, > > > > *Põe, põe, galinha põe, põe* (the põe word, souds like “bom” if you > pronounce it with S. Miguel accent) > > *Ovinhos para o bébé* (or “para o menino”, or” menina” as if it was a boy > or a girl…) > > (I still remember the music J ). > > > > Meaning: “chiken, give an egg do the baby”. It comes from old times when > eggs where like money… you could trade a dozen of eggs for sugar, as an > example. Eggs where kept as money… the day of your birthday you could eat a > fried egg with all the family kids staring at you! > > > > eliseu > > > > > > *De:* azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] *Em nome > de *Kathlene Lima > *Enviada:* segunda-feira, 14 de agosto de 2017 13:36 > *Para:* Azores Genealogy <azores@googlegroups.com> > *Assunto:* [AZORES-Genealogy] Grandmother's Nursery Rhyme > > > > Hi all, > > > > I hope this is not the wrong place to ask about this subject but I am > doing a project for my nieces. I would like to give them a booklet for > Christmas, listing all the Portuguese phrases I learned over the years from > my father and aunts. I am the last person exposed to this history and do > not want it to get lost. > > > > There was a nursery rhyme my family sang to babies. It started with "Bom > Bom,Gahlina, Bom bom. Sounded like Boom. I know that means "Good Chicken". > As the rhyme is sung, the baby's palm is tapped. No one outside of my > family has ever heard of this but my family has always played this with > baby's. > > My Grandfather was from Sao Miguel and my Grandmother Faial. Thanks so > much and let me know if this is not an appropriate forum to ask this > question. > > > > Kathlene Lima > > Bushnell, FL > > USA > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
