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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 |
Rope Jumping Rime
Sea shells
Many bells
Eevy, Ivy, Over
My boyfrien's name is Rover.
How many kisses will I get?
(red hot pepper, counting)
Where learned: Informant doesn't rember wher she learned this but it was during grade school.
Keyword(s): ENDURANCE ; Jump ; Jump ; SPEED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Rope Jumping Rime
Standing of the corner
Chewin a piece of gum
Along came (name) and asked for some
No you little beggar
No you little bum
I'd rather get a licken
Than give you some
How many lickens didi she reveive?
Where learned: Informant doesn't rember where she learned this.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse C760.560 |
Jump song-rope
Chinky, chinky chinaman sittling on a fence,
Trying to make $1.00 out of .59¢,
She missed, she missed,
She missed like this ...
Data entry tech comment:
Collector does not state where the informant lives.
Where learned: Morrell
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump ; Jump ; SPEED
| 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 |
Jump - rope rhyme
Blondie and Dagwood went to town
Blondie bought an evening gown
Dagewood bought a pair of shoes
Cookie read the evening news
Here is what it said
Close your eyes, count to ten
If you miss take an end.
Where learned: Learned from a playmate about 6 years ago.
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump
| 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 Rime
Ching, Chong, Chinaman,
Sitting on a fence
Tried to make a dollar
Out of ninety -nine cents.
He missed.
He missed
He missed liked this.
Where learned: Told at Detroit.
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump ; Jump ; SPEED
| 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
Apples, peaches, pumpkin pie, how many years
before I die? One, two,three, four, five, etc.
(keep counting until jumper misses)
Submitter comment:
Littler children often recite the following rhyme as they jump rope.
Data entry tech comment:
Collect and informant name is not listed on card.
Collector and informant are the same.
Where learned: Informant does not state where it was learned.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump-Rope-Rhymes
High water- low water
Submitter comment:
This is another saying for playing jump rope.
One swing the rope and other children jump over as high as they can.When one misses he's out of the game.
Where learned: written in 204
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Song
High, low, medium, slow, rocky, dolly,bluebells, pepper, 10,20,30....
(until player misses)
Data entry tech comment:
Collector does not state what city it was learned.
Where learned: Univesity of Detroit
Keyword(s): ENDURANCE ; Jump ; Junp ; SPEED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jumping Rhyme
Grace, Grace, dressed in kace,
Went upstairs to powder her face,
How many boxes did she use.
(Jump, counting , until you miss, and then you take the end)
Data entry tech comment:
Collector does not state where informant lives .
Where learned: Told St. Hilary's 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 |
Jump Rope Rhyme
High
Low
Jolly pepper.
(this is repeated)
The first time a person goes to junp the rope is about waist high. The secibd time teh roep is on the ground. The third time the rope is twirled very fast.
Data entry tech comment:
Collector does not state where it was learned or where the informant lives.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Song
Hi, low, medium, walkie, talkie, slowly, pepper.
(at pepper, rope is turned faster)
Where learned: Cleveland, Ohio
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |