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BLUE BELLS COCKLE SHELLS,/ BLUE BELLS COCKLE SHELLS, EEVY, IVY OVER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-24-1967
Jump Rope Song
Ice cream soda with a cherry on top,
Tell me the initials of my sweetheart.
(Player jumps out on initials of her sweetheart.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Counting
1-2-3-4-5
I caught a hare alive.
6-7-8-9-10
I let him go again.
Submitter comment:
Informant said that it was an old jumping rhyme that she used to jump to.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; University of Detroit Chorus office
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump-Rope Rhyme
I scream
You scream
We all scream
For ice cream.
Submitter comment:
From childhood.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rhyme
Joe, Joe broke his toe,
Riding on a buffalo,
When he came back,
He broke his back,
Sliding on a railroad track.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 13027 Klinger
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
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
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
Jump-Rope Rhymes
DAGWOOD AND BLONDIE WENT DOWNTOWN.
BLONDIE BOUGHT AN EVENING GOWN.
DAGWOOD BOUGHT A PAIR OF SHOES.
AND SISSY READ THE EVENING NEWS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1967
O DOCTOR!
DOCTOR, DOCTOR, CAN YOU TELL,
WHAT WILL MAKE MY MOTHER WELL?
SHE IS SICK AND ABOUT TO DIE,
AND THAT WILL MAKE MY DADDY CRY!
Submitter comment:
NEIGHBORHOOD ROPE SKIPPING RHYME
Where learned: informant's home
Keyword(s): ACTION RHYME ; CHARACTER ; PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 08-05-1964
Inky Pinky
Inky pink, a bottle of ink
cork fell out and you stink
not because you dirty
not because you clean
but because you kissed a girl behind the magazine
Submitter comment:
Jump rope jingle
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
SAILOR AND THE SEA
A SAILOR WENT TO SEA SEA SEA
TO SEE WHAT HE COULD SEE SEE SEE.
BUT ALL THAT HE COULD SEE SEE SEE
WAS THE BOTTOM OF THE DEEP BLUE SEA SEA SEA.
Submitter comment:
(NEIGHBORHOOD ROPE SKIPPING RHYME)
Where learned: informant's home
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 08-05-1964
Downtown
I'm going downtown to smoke my pipe.
I won't be back till Saturday night.
I'll whip you blue, I'll whip you black.
Especialy you my daughter Sue.
(school jump rope rhyme)
Where learned: INFORMANT'S HOME
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump-rope rhyme
I asked my mother for 50 cents
to see the elephant jump the fence.
He jumped so high
he touched the sky
And didn't come down
til the fourth of July.
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Rope Jumping Rime
Jean, Jean, Jelly bean
Stuck her head in the washing machine
Her mother cried because she died
And that's the end of Jean, Jean, Jelly Bean
Data entry tech comment:
Informant learned this on the playground in Pittsburg, Penn.
Where learned: Foley Hall Univesity of Detroit
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse C760.560 |
Jump-Rope Rhyme: Johnny
Johnny over the ocean
Johnny ov the sea
Johnny broke a window
And blamed it all on me.
I told ma.
Ma told pa.
Johnny got a lickin', ha-ha-ha!
(jump the number of lickin's Johnny got.)
Data entry tech comment:
Informent and collector share the same surname and resident
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
I like coffee
I like tea and
I like the boys
and they like me.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump-Rope Rhyme
DOWN IN THE VALLEY WHERE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS THERE SITS (NAME) AS SWEET AS A ROSE.
ALONG COMES (NAME), KISSED HER ON THE CHEEK
NOW SHE'S PUSHING BABY BUGGIES DOWN THE STREET.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-05-1969
Jump Rope Rhyme
I am a pretty little Dutch girl
As pretty as pretty can be.
And all the boys in the neighborhood
Are crazy over me.
My boyfriend's name is Tommy.
He comes from the land of salami.
With pickles on his nose and 5 black toes.
That's the way my story goes.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |