Jump Rope Rhyme

I love coffee, I love tea

I want name them to jump in with me

Where learned: TOLD AT INFORMANT'S HOME

Keyword(s): Call ; RHYME

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Jump Rope Rhyme

I love coffee I love tea

Johnny broke the sugar bowl and blamed it on me

I told ma, ma told pa

Johnny got a licking,  ha, ha, ha

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector share the same surname.

Where learned: TOLD AT INFORMANT'S HOME

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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Jump Rope Rhyme

I'm a little Dutch girl diressed in blue,

Here are the duties I used to do:

Salut toe the captain, courtesy to the queen,

Touch the bottom of the ocean green.

Data entry tech comment:

Collector and informant share the same surname.

Collect does not state what city or state the informant resides in.
 

Where learned: Told at informant's home.

Keyword(s): ACTION ; CHARACTER ; RHYME

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Jump Rope Rhyme

Inky binky bottle of ink,

Cork's out, you stink.

Data entry tech comment:

Collector and informat share the same surname and address.
 

Where learned: TOLD AT INFORMANT'S HOME

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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Rope-Jump Rhyme

I like coffee.

I like tea.

I like _____ to jumpe in with me.

Where learned: TOLD AT INFORMANT'S HOME

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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I see

I see London, I see France, I see name's underpants.

A jump rope rhyme that is sung in derision of someone

Where learned: TOLD AT COLLECTOR'S HOME

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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Jump Rope Rhyme

I went downtown

To meet Miss Brown

She gabe me a nickle

I bouught a pickle was sour

I bought a flower

The flower was yellow

I gave tit to my fellow

Where learned: told at informants house.

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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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.

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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Jump Rope Rhyme

Down in the falley where the green grass grows

There sat ( name girl ) sweet as the a rose

She sang, she sang, sgesabg so sweet.

Along came (name boy) and kissed her check

How many kisses did she receive.

(counts# or time skips rope till she misses)

Where learned: TOLD AT INFORMANTS HOME

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE ; Jump

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Jump Roe Rhyme

Johnny over the ocean

Johnny over the sea

Johnny broke a tea cup

And blamed it on me

I told ma

Ma told pa

Johnny got a lickin

Ha ha ah

Salt, vingar, mustard, pepper

(faster with each of the last line)
 

Where learned: TOLD AT INFORMANT'S HOME

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; Jump ; SPEED

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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

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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Jump Rope Rhyme

Teddy bear, teddy, bear turn around.

Teddy bear, teddy bear touch the ground

Teddy bear, teddy bear go up stairs.

Teddy bear, teddy bear turn off the light.

Teddy bear, teddy bear say good-night.

( As the jumper says this she must dowhat ever the rhyme tells Teddy bear to do while she is jumping.

Data entry tech comment:

Collector and informant share the same surname.

Where learned: Told at informant's home.

Keyword(s): ACTION ; CHARACTER ; RHYME

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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

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Jump-Rope Chant #3

High, low, medium, jolly,peppers

High: rope turned in hight motin

Low: rope turned in low motion

Jolly: rope urned in regular motin

Peppers: rope turned extra fast

 (The object of these jump-rope game is to jump until you miss.)

Where learned: Told at Univesity of Detroit

Keyword(s): Jump ; SPEED

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Jump Rope Rhyme

Gypsy, gyspy, please tell me

What my husband's name will be.

(Repeat alphabet).

Where learned: Told at informan's home Warren Michigan

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE ; Jump

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Jump Rope Rhyme

High, low

Medium slow

jolly pepper

1,2,3,  go

Where learned: Told at St. Bernards School Alpena Michigan

Keyword(s): Jump ; SPEED

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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

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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Acca, Bucca

Aka bakka, soda cracker

Akka bakka soda cracker

Aka bakka boo

If your fater chews tobacco

He's a regular jew

Out goes the cat

Out goes the rat

Out goes you

Where learned: Told at University of Detroit Student Union

Keyword(s): Jump ; Jump ; Plain ; Seed

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Alabama Buska

Alabama Buska, king of the Jews

Bought his wife a pair of shoes

When the shoes beganto wear

Alabama began to swear

Wife,wife go upstairs

Wife, wife some down stairs

Wife, wife touch the ground

etc.

Where learned: TOLD AT INFORMANTS HOME

Keyword(s): ACTION ; CHARACTER ; RHYME

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Jump-Rope Rhyme

All jump in together girls.

Just like the weather girls,

January, February, March, ... December,

(One jump on each month.)

Data entry tech comment:

Collector does not state where the informant lives.

Where learned: Told at St. Hilary's Grade School

Keyword(s): Call ; Rhymne

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