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BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD WENT TO TOWN/ BLONDIE BOUGHT AN EVENING GOWN/
DAGWOOD BOUGHT A PAIR OF SHOES/ COOKIE BOUGHT AN EVENING NEWS/ AND
IN THE NEWS IT SAID: CLOSE YOUR EYES AND COUNT TO TEN
AND IF YOU MISS
YOU TAKE THE END.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS ; TOLD IN
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 01-28-1972
BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD WENT TO TOWN,/ BLONDIE BOUGHT AN EVENING GOWN./
DAGWOOD BOUGHT A PAIR OF SHOES./ COOKIE STAYED HOME TO READ THE NEWS
AND THIS IS WHAT SHE SAW: (COUNT UNTIL YOU MISS)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00001950'S
BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD WENT TO TOWN/ BLONDIE BOUGHT AN EVENING GOWN/
DAGWOOD 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: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-15-1967
BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD WENT TO TOWN. /BLONDIE BOUGHT AN EVENING GOWN./
DAGWOOD BOUGHT A NEWSPAPER THAT SIAD: COUNT TO TEN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECOTR.
BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD WENT TO TOWN./BLONDIE BOUGHT AN EVENING GOWN./
DAGWOOD BOUGHT A PAIR OF SHOES./ SONNY BOUGHT THE EVENING NEWS. AND
IN IT THEY READ: CLOSE YOUR EYES AND COUNT TO TEN/ IF YOU MISS YOU
MUST TAKE THE END.
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT IS A 10 YEAR OLD GIRL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 02-27-1967
BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD WENT TO TOWN/ BLONDIE BOUGHT AN EVENING GOWN/
DAGWOOD BOUGHT THE EVENING NEWS/ THIS IS WHAT IT SAID: CLOSE YOUR
EYES AND COUNT TO TEN/ IF YOU MISS TAKE AN END.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BERKELEY
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 08-00-1964
BLUE BELLS, COCKLE SHELLS,/ EEVY IVY OVER. / HERE COMES TEACHER WITH
A BIG BLACK STICK/ BETTER KNOW MY ARITHMETIC.
Where learned: THE UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-18-1968
CHARLIE CHAPMAN WENT TO FRANCE/ JUST TO SEE THE WIGWAM DANCE/ FIRST
ON HEELS, THEN ON TOES, THEN ON HANDS AND AWAY WE GO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; AGE 11
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 08-11-1964
CHARLIE CHAPLIN WENT TO FRANCE/ TO SEE THE GIRLS DO THE "HOOTCHIE
KOOTCHIE" DANCE/ SALUTE TO THE CAPTAIN/ BOW TO THE QUEEN/ AND TOUCH
THE BOTTOM OF THE SUBMARINE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ACTION-RHYME ; CHARACTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 09-20-1967
CHARLEY CHAPLIN WENT TO FRANCE
TO TEACH THE GIRLS THE HOOCHIE COOCHIE
DANCE./ HEEL, TOE, AROUND WE GO/ HEEL, TOE, AROUND WE GO/ SALUTE TO
THE CAPTAIN, CURTSY TO THE QUEEN/ AND TOUCH THE BOTTOM OF THE
SUBMARINE.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; FOLEY HALL
Keyword(s): ACTION-RHYME ; CHARACTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 03-29-1967
CHARLIE CHAPLIN WENT TO FRANCE,
TO TEACH THE GIRLS THE HULA-HULA DANCE.
HEEL, TOE, AROUND I GO./ SALUTE THE CAPTAIN, CURTSEY TO THE QUEEN,/
AND TOUCH THE BOTTOM OF A BLUE SUBMARINE."
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): ACTION-RHYME ; CHARACTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-02-1967
CHARLIE CHAPLIN WENT TO FRANCE,/ TO TEACH THE LADIES HOW TO DANCE,/
WITH A HEEL AND A TOE, AROUND WE GO./ SALUTE TO THE CAPTAIN,/ BOW TO
THE QUEEN,/ TOUCH THE BOTTOM OF THE DIRTY SUBMARINE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ;
Keyword(s): ACTION-RHYME ; CHARACTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
CHARLIE CHAPLIN SAT ON A FENCE
TRYING TO MAKE A DOLLAR OUT OF FIFTEEN
CENTS.
Where learned: NEIGHBORHOOD
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR.
CHING CHANG CHINAMAN SITTING ON A FENCE TRIED TO MAKE A DOLLAR OUT OF
FIFTY-TWO CENTS. HE MISSED, HE MISSED, HE MISSED LIKE THIS. (JUMPER
JUMPS UNTIL HE MISSES.)
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; SPEED-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
CHING, CHANG CHINAMAN/ SITTING ON A BENCH/ HE MADE A BUCK OUT OF 15
CENTS./ HE MISSED./ HE MISSED./ HE MISSED LIKE THIS.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; SPEED-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-01-1967
CHING, CHANG CHINAMAN,/ SITTING ON A FENCE,/ TRIED TO MAKE A DOLLAR,/
OUT OF EIGHTY CENTS./ HE MISSED./ HE MISSED., HE MISSED LIKE THIS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WESTLAND
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; SPEED-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 09-15-1969
CHING, CHANG CHINA MAN,/SITTING ON A FENCE,
TRYING TO MAKE A DOLLAR
OUT OF FIFTY-FIVE CENTS./ YOU MISSED,/ YOU MISSED, YOU MISSED LIKE
THIS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; SPEED-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-26-1968
CHING, CHANG CHINAMAN,/ SITTING ON A FENCE./ TRYING TO MAKE A DOLLAR/
OUT OF NINETY/EIGHT CENTS./ I LIKE COFFEE,/ I LIKE TEA./ I LIKE THE
BOYS/ AND THE BOYS LIKE ME. (YES, NO, MAYBE SO ETC. UNTIL MISSES.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-23-1968
CHING,CHANG CHINAMAN./ SITTING ON A FENCE./ TRYING TO MAKE A DOLLAR
OUT OF 99 CENTS./ HE MISSED, /HE MISSED,/ HE MISSED LIKE THIS.
THIS IS DONE WHILE JUMPING UP AND DOWN AND CROSSING FEET.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): ACTION-RHYME ; CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 03-00-1971
Jump Rope Rhyme
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS SAILED THE OCEAN BLUE
IN FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO.
THE WAVES WENT HIGHER AND HIGHER
AND OVER THE OCEAN BLUE.
(CHANTED BY THE CHILDREN AS THE ROPE IS SWUNG FROM SIDE TO SIDE. PARTIAL UNDERLINING INDICATES AT WHAT POINTS THE ROPE IS SWUNG.)
(ON THE WORDS "HIGHER" AND HIGHER" THE ROPE IS SWUNG HIGHER FROM SIDE TO SIDE.
ON THE WORDS "OVER" AND "BLUE" THE ROPE IS SWUNG AROUND IN THE CONVENTIONAL MANNER.)
THIS CHILD JUMPS OUT OF THE ROPE AND IT IS REPEATED FOR THE NEXT CHILD.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT LEARNED THIS IN GRADE SCHOOL IN NORTHWEST DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-00-1967