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Loves of life
I love coffee,
I love tea,
I love the boys and the boys love me.
Submitter comment:
Informant could also remember hearing this entry on her old school payground.
Data entry tech comment:
Collector and informant share the same surname.
Where learned: Told at informants home.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
I wrote a letter to my love
And on the way I dropped it
I dropped it once, I dropped it twice
And I dropped it three times over
Where learned: Told at St Bernardo School
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Rope- jumping Rimes
Fudge, fudge, call the judge,
Mothers got a newborn baby.
Not a girl, not a boy,jus an ordinary baby.
Wrap it up in tissue paper,
Send it down the elevator.
Third floor stop, second floor stop;
First floor out you go!
Data entry tech comment:
Collector and informant are the same person.
Where learned: Learned during childhood play in plymouth, Michigan
Keyword(s): Call ; CHARACTER ; Jump ; Plain ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Little Dutch girl dressed in pink
I'm a little Dutch gril
Dressed in pink.
Here are the things I like to drink;
Coca, water and tea,
These are the best for me.
Data entry tech comment:
Collector does not state where informant lives.
Where learned: informant's home
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; Jump ; Plain
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Little Dutch girl dressed in white.
I'm a little Dutch girl
Dressed in white.
These are the things I say at night:
Goodnight to my mother,
Goodnight to my father,
And goodnight to my littler baby brother.
(School jump rope rhyme)
Data entry tech comment:
Collector does not state where the informant lives .
Where learned: Informant's home.
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; Jump ; Plain
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Half a dollar
I gave him back his peaches.
Igave him back his pears.
I gave him back his 50¢.
And kicked him down the stairs.
(neighborhood jump rope rhyme)
Data entry tech comment:
Collector does not state where informant lives.
Where learned: Learned at informant's home.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Rope Jumping
Jingle, Jilgle
How do you do?
Jingle, Jingle
How are you?
Is your mother at home?
I don't know.
Jingle, jingle
Go, go,go
Data entry tech comment:
Collector does not state where informant lives.
Where learned: Informant leared at Keating School
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Rope-Jumping Rhyme
Ice cream soda, gigner ale pop
Tell me the initials of your sweetheart.
A,L
Data entry tech comment:
Collector and informant share the same surname.
Where learned: Informant learned it from her playmates on the northwest side of Detroit in a predominately Italian Neighborhood.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jumping rope rhyme
Susy and Johnny (any names may be substituted)
Sitting in a tree
K-i-s-s-i-n-g
How many times
did he kiss she
one, two ...
Data entry tech comment:
Collector does not state where it was learned.
Where learned: Learned in dormitory.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Doctor, doctor
Doctor, doctor can you tell
What will make poor Susie well?
She is sick and going to die
That will make poor Peter cry.
When he comes dressed in blue
That's the time he'ill marry you.
Where learned: Was learned at informants home.
Keyword(s): Charcter ; Jump ; Plain
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
Dick and Janet sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g
First comes love, then comes marriage, and then along coems Laura in a baby carriage
(When they ingroduce the new person into the rhyme in the carriage it usually meant that a new person was supposed to begin jumping. The on who's name is called out.)
Where learned: Royal Oak, Michigan
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
Two little dickey birds
Sitting on a wall
One named Peter
The other named Paul.
Fly away Peter
Fly away Paul
Come back Peter
Come back Paul
Fly away, fly away
Fly away, all !
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
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Rope- Jumping Rhyme
Down in the valley where the gree grass grows
There stood (a name) as sweet as a rose.
Along came a nigger and kissed
her on the nose.
Data entry tech comment:
Collector and informant share the same surname and address.
Where learned: She learned it when she was in grade school.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
Here we come
Where from?
New Oreans
Whats your trade?
Lemonade
Give me some!
No!
Then get to work you lazy bum!
Where learned: DETROIT, MICHIGAN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
Hello operator
Give me number nine
If she doesn't answer
Please give me bakc my dime...
(There is mor to this but the informant could only rememeber one more line.)
...Behind the iron curtain
Data entry tech comment:
Collector does not state what city the informant lives.
Where learned: Informant learned at home .
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Hello Bill
Hello Bill.
Whe're you goin' Bill?
Downtown Bill?
What for Bill?
To pay my gas bill?
How much Bill?
A ten dollar bill?
Data entry tech comment:
Collector and Informant share the same surname.
Where learned: Westland, Michigan
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Rope Jumping Rime
Hi Ho Sliver
How's about a date?
Meet me at the corner
At half past eight.
Data entry tech comment:
Collector does not indicate what city collector lives in.
Where learned: Informant learned as a child but does not know from whom.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump - Rope Rhyme.
Here comes the bride all
dressed in pink,
Open the window and
Let out the stink.
Submitter comment:
Collector learned this at the informant's home.
Where learned: Informant learned from her sister.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump-rope chant #2
This chant is used to keep the rope in rhym, but it can also be used as a put-down technique by substituting a boy whom the girl dislikes--
"Down in the valley where the green grass grows, ther sat (--),
sweet as a rose. She waited for a day and she waieted for a week,
and along came(--) and kissed her on the cheek."
Where learned: Told at University of Detroit
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Down in the valley
Down int the valley where the green grass grows,
There sat Debbie as preetty as a Rose,
She sang, she sang so sweet.
Along came Paul and kissed her on the cheek.
Where learned: MARYGROVE COLLEGE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |