The word " pickaninnies " appears in the 1887 lyrics of Newfoundland folk song Kelligrew's Soiree : " There was boiled guineas, cold guineas, bullock's heads and piccaninnies ."
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:: : " Piccaninny " is understood as a reference to a young indigenous Australian, but I can tell you it is never used these days ( at least not in the circles I move in ).
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On 31 October, Gibb produced the two Samantha Sang songs and on November, Gibb produced P . P . Arnold songs " Piccaninny ", " High and Windy Mountain " and a cover version of " Turning Tide ".
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Critics of the casting in " Pan " suggested that Warner Bros . may have wanted to avoid repeating the alleged racism of previous " Peter Pan " stories, by altering the ethnicity of the Piccaninnies, rather than using a stereotypical portrayal of the source material.
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It is probably dervived from the defintion of piccaninny " very young " thus " very young light " The OED does not list this term as obsolete so it is believable that you will find newer works with the term being used . talk ) 16 : 51, 18 July 2008 ( UTC)
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The word was used by Australian country music performer Slim Dusty in the lyrics of his 1987 " nursery-rhyme-style " song " Boomerang " : " Every picaninny knows, that's where the goes . " Within Australia, it is also a common name used for landscape features, including Piccaninny crater, Picanniny Point and Piccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park.
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A reviewer in " The Australasian " had a high opinion of Stephens's work : " . . . he is one of the, as yet, few Australian singers to whom the word'poet'may be applied without any impropriety-poet in feeling and poet in expression; various in word and versatile in method; combining the essential gifts of imagination with that qualifying and restraining sense of the humorous which asserts itself with such happy effect in compositions like " My Chinee Cook, " the address to a black gin, " A Piccaninny, " and " Big Ben . ""
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At least eighteen of his published poems have unmistakably Australian themes and settings : " Fulfilment ", " Cape Byron ", " A Coin of Trajan in Australia ", " A Lost Chance ", " Adelaide Ironside ", " Australian Anthem ", " Opening Hymn ", " Drought and Doctrine ", " Marsupial Bill ", " A Piccaninny ", " To a Black Gin ", " New Chum and Old Monarch ", " The Great Pig Story of the Tweed ", " A Son of the Soil ", " Big Ben ", " The Southern Cross ", " A Brisbane Reverie " and " Convict Once " . ] They have the restrained enthusiasm that belongs to true patriotism.
