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JUMP ROPE RHYME
1, 2, 3, CARROTS' GONE
THE BUNNY HOPS AND AWAY HE GOES
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): SPEED-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED
JUMP ROPE RHYME
POLICEMAN, POLICEMAN DO YOUR DUTY
HERE COMES (NAME), THE BATHING BEAUTY
SHE CAN DO THE RHUMBA, SHE CAN DO THE SPLITS
SHE CAN PULL HER SKIRT UP TO HER HIPS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-20-1969
JUMP ROPE RHYME
POLIANNA POLIEE DO YOUR DUTY
HERE COMES (BLANK) THE AMERICAN BEAUTY
SHE CAN DO THE RUMBA (RHUMBA)
SHE CAN DO THE SPLITS
SHE CAN WEAR HER DRESS HIGH ABOVE HER HIPS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; STERLING
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED
POLICEMAN POLICEMAN DO YOUR DUTY.
THERE'S A GIRL ON THE CORNER SHE'S AN AMERICAN BEAUTY.
SHE CAN WIGGLE SHE CAN WOBBLE SHE CAN DO THE SPLITS BUT SHE CAN'T
PULL HER DRESS AS HIGH AS HER HIPS.
Where learned: NOT RECORDED
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
JUMP ROPE RHYME
POLICEMAN, POLICEMAN, DO YOUR DUTY
HERE COMES AMERICA'S BATHING BEAUTY
SHE CAN DO THE RHUMBA, SHE CAN DO THE SPLITS,
SHE CAN PULL HER DRESS UP TO HER HIPS.
Submitter comment: PLAYED BY INFORMANT WHEN SHE WAS A GIRL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-23-1970
JUMP ROPE RHYME
POLLY, POLLY, SET THE TABLE
DON'T FORGET THE SALT AND RED HOT PEPPER.
Submitter comment: (BEGIN COUNTING UNTIL PERSON JUMPING MISSES.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): SPEED-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-16-1967
JUMP ROPE VERSE
POTATOES, TOMATOES, PEAS, AND CHEESE
YOUR MOTHER SAYS TO EAT ALOT OF THESE
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT IS A FRIEND'S YOUNGEST SISTER, AND SHE IS ABOUT EIGHT
YEARS OLD.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE ; TOLD IN
Keyword(s): PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00001971 SPRING
PICKIN YOUR NOSE
PICKIN' YOUR NOSE AND CHEWIN IT, CHEWIN IT.
EVERYBODY'S DOIN' IT, DOIN' IT.
PICKIN YOUR NOSE AND CHEWIN IT, CHEWIN IT.
EVER SEE (NAME) DOIN IT, DOIN IT.
DON'T THINK ITS FUNNY CUZ ITS SNOT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 03-00-1971
PETE AND SUSIE SITTING IN A TREE
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
FIRST COMES LOVE
THEN COMES MARRIAGE
THEN COMES SUE WITH A BABY CARRIAGE.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 07-00-1964
JUMP ROPE PATTER
POSTMAN} POSTMAN} DO YOUR DUTY.
HERE COMES MISS AMERICA, THE BEAUTY.
SHE CAN DO THE RHUMBA.
SHE CAN DO THE SPLITS.
SHE WEARS DRESSES UP TO HER HIPS.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT, MY TEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER LEARNED THESE PATTERS
FROM HER OLDER SISTERS AND FROM FRIENDS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
Keyword(s): PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 02-27-1967
NAUGHTY JUMP-ROPE RHYME
RASPBERRY, CHERRY, SODA POP,
GIRLS ON THE BOTTOM, BOYS ON THE TOP.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 09-27-1967
JUMPROPE SONG
"RED, HOT SPANISH PEPPER}"
Submitter comment:
(ROPE WAS TURNED EXTREMELY FAST AND COUNTING PROCEEDED UNTIL ONE
MISSED.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HOLDEN HALL ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): SPEED-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-07-1967
JUMP-ROPE RHYME
RING, RING, RINGING AT MY DOORBELL
CALLING SUZANNA AT MY DOORBELL
'CAUSE SHE'S THE ONE
WHO'S HAVING ALL THE FUN
SO WE DON'T LIKE SUZANNA ANY MORE.
Where learned: NOT RECORDED
Keyword(s): PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-17-1969
JUMP-ROPE RHYME
RIN TIN TIN
SWALLOWED A PIN.
HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR
THE DOCTOR WASN'T IN.
HE WENT TO THE NURSE
SHE GAVE HIM A CURSE
AND THAT WAS THE END
OF RIN TIN TIN.
Submitter comment: FROM CHILDHOOD.
Where learned: NOT RECORDED
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED
Jump Rope Rhyme
Ice cream, soda, ginger ale pop.
Tell me the initials of your sweetheart.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse C750 .560 |
CINDERELLA DRESSED IN YELLA
WENT DOWNTOWN TO MEET HER FELLA
HIS NAME WAS ________ (SPELL IT)
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT LEARNED THIS RHYME FROM HER MOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; FOLEY HALL
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 03-29-1967
Ink a pink a bottle of ink
the cork popped out. And
you stink
Where learned: COLLECTED IN DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Johnnie over the ocean
Johnnie over teh ocean, johnnie over the sea.
Johnnie broke a teapot, and blamed it on me.
I told ma, ma told pa.
Jonnie got a lickin, ha, ha, ha.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; Jump ; Plain
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
Ice cream soda
Ginger- ale pop
Tell me the mission your sweet heart
( Then all of the letters are said)
Where learned: Collected at my house
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
CINDERELLA, DRESSED IN YELLOW,
WENT UPSTAIRS TO KISS HER FELLOW,
MADE A MISTAKE AND KISSED A SNAKE,
CAME DOWNSTAIRS WITH A BELLY ACHE.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname and city of residence.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BATTLE CREEK
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1968