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Jump Rope Rhyme

CINDERELLA ALL DRESSED IN YELLOW,
WENT UPSTAIRS TO MEET A FELLOW,
ON HER WAY HER GIRDLE BUSTED
HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE DISGUSTED?
1-2-3. . .

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PLYMOUTH

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 11-01-1969

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Jump Rope Rhymes: Cinderella

CINDERELLA DRESSED IN YELLOW
WENT UPSTAIR TO KISS HER FELLOW
SHE MADE A MISTAKE AND KISSED A SNAKE,
HOW MANY DOCTORS DID IT TAKE?

(JUMP UNTIL THE PERSON MISSES)

 

Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 10-00-1969

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Jump-Rope Rhyme

DAGWOOD AND BLONDIE WENT TO TOWN,
BLONDIE BOUGHT AN EVENING GOWN,
DAGWOOD BOUGHT A PAIR OF SHOES,
COOKIE BOUGHT THE EVENING NEWS.
IN THE NEWS IT SAID, "CLOSE YOUR EYES
AND COUNT TO 10--IF YOU MISS
YOU TAKE AN END."
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, . . . .

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector share the same surname.

Where learned: HOME

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 00-00-1963

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Rope-Jumping Rhymes

DAGWOOD BLONDIE WENT DOWNTOWN
DAGWOOD BLONDIE BOUGHT AN EVENING GOWN.
HE HAD A QUARTER TO BUY THE NEWS.
IN THE NEWS THERE WAS SOMETHING NEW.
IF YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES AND COUNT TO TEN YOU WILL
EVER WIN.
COUNT 1-10.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 10-00-1967

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Rope Jumping Rime

DOCTOR, DOCTOR, DO YOUR DUTY
HERE COMES _______, AN AMERICAN BEAUTY.
SHE WIGGLES WHEN SHE WALKS AND
SHE CAN DO THE SPLITS
AND SHE LIFTS UP HER SKIRT WHEN SHE DOES THE KICKS. HOW MANY KICKS CAN SHE DO?

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; FOLEY HALL

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 03-30-1967

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Jump-Rope Rhyme:

Ice cream soda, ginger ale pop, This is the

initial of my sweetheart.

Then you jump out the alphabet, shouting out loud

Those initials which are your sweetheart's.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

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Jump rope rhyme

I told Ma, Ma told Pa Jonny broke the sugar bowl

and blamed it on me.

Hom many spankings did he get: 1,2, etc. until who

ever is jumping misses.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; STERLING

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

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Jump rope jingle:Down in the valley

Down in the valley where the green grass grows,

There sat (name) as sweet as a rose;

She sang - she sang,

Shen sang so sweet

Alon came (name) and kissed her on the cheek;

How many kisses did he five her in a week?

One, two, three, four etc. (until jumper misses).

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informent and collector are the same.

Where learned: DETROIT

Keyword(s): Endurance Jump E. J.

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

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Ice cream, soda

Ice cream, soda, ginger ale pop,

How many boy friends have you got?

1-2-3- (until you missed)

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

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Jump-Rope Rhyme

Ice cream Sundae

Ginger ale pop

Tell me the name of your sweetheart: A B etc. down the

alphabet.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; STERLING

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

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Jump Rope Rhyme

Ice cream soda ginger ale pop
What is the initial of my sweetheart?

A, B, C, D, and the one you miss on is it and then go on to second letter and so on.

Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

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Rope-Jump Rhyme

Ice cream, soda, ginger ale pop,
Tell me the initial of my sweetheart A, B, C, . . .
A is for A_____ (Albert) he (she) lives in A_____ (Alabama)
B is for B_____ (Barney) he (she) lives in B_____ (Burma)
C is for C_____ (Carl) he (she) lives in C_____ (California)
D is for D_____ (David) he (she) lives in D_____ (Detroit)

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

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Rope Jumping Rime

I was born in a frying pan
Just to see how old I am
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, . . .
(you miss at your particular age)

 

Submitter comment:

Informant learned this from the neighborhood children in Alaska.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; FOLEY HALL

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

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Jump Rope

I like coffee
I like tea
I like the boys
And the boys like me
Yes no maybe so


 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector share the same surname.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

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JUMP ROPE VERSE

LITTLE MISS PINKY, DRESSED IN BLUE
DIED LAST NIGHT AT A QUARTER PAST TWO.
SHE TOLD ME TO JUMP THIS ROPE
THAT MADE ME MISS. 1-2-3-ETC.
(CONTINUE COUNTING UNTIL JUMPER MISSES.)

Submitter comment:

INFORMANT HEARD ITEM AT PLAY.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 10-08-1965

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MILK MAN, MILK MAN

MILK MAN, MILK MAN, DO YOUR DUTY,
HERE COMES     NAME    , THE AMERICAN BEAUTY
SHE SWAYS AND SHE WIGGLES
AND SHE WIGGLES AND SHE WEEVES,
SHE WEARS HER DRESSES ABOVE HER KNEES,
HOW MANY CHILDREN WILL SHE HAVE.

Submitter comment:

JUMP ROPE JINGLE

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 03-00-1968

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JUMP ROPE RHYMES

MISS, MISS, LITTLE MISS, MISS;
WHEN SHE MISSES SHE MISSES LIKE THIS

Submitter comment:

IN NEIGHBORHOOD

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector share the same surname.

 

Where learned: NOT RECORDED

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP ; SPEED-JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 11-24-1967

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ROPE JUMPING RIME

MISS, MISS, LITTLE MISS MISS,
WHEN SHE MISSES
SHE MISSES LIKE THIS (STOP THE ROPE)

Submitter comment:

INFORMANT SAID SHE LEARNED THIS AS A CHILD IN HER NEIGHBORHOOD.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; FOLEY HALL

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP ; SPEED-JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 03-29-1967

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JUMP-ROPE RHYMES

MISS, MISS, LITTLE MISS MISS,
WHEN SHE MISSES SHE MISSES LIKE THIS
1, 2, 3, ETC.

Where learned: MICHIGAN

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 00-00-1967

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Jump Rope Song

DICK AND JANE SITTIN' IN A TREE
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
FIRST COMES LOVE, THEN COMES MARRIAGE
THEN COMES JANE WITH A BABY CARRIAGE.
HOW MANY CHILDREN DID SHE RECEIVE?
ONE, TWO, THREE . . .

PLAYERS SUBSTITUTE THEIR OWN NAMES.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 03-10-1970

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