The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

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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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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Little Dutch girl dressed in pink

I'm a little Dutch gril

Dressed in pink.

Here are the things I like to drink;

Coca, water and tea,

These are the best for me.
 

Data entry tech comment:

Collector does not state where informant lives.
 

Where learned: informant's home

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; Jump ; Plain

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Little Dutch girl dressed in white.

I'm a little Dutch girl

Dressed in white.

These are the things I say at night:

Goodnight to my mother,

Goodnight to my father,

And goodnight to my littler baby brother.

(School jump rope rhyme)

Data entry tech comment:

Collector does not state where the informant lives .
 

Where learned: Informant's home.

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; Jump ; Plain

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Half a dollar

I gave him back his peaches.

Igave him back his pears.

I gave him back his 50¢.

And kicked him down the stairs.

(neighborhood jump rope rhyme)

Data entry tech comment:

Collector does not state where informant lives.

Where learned: Learned at informant's home.

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 rhymes

Cathy and Terry sitting in a tree

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

First comes love

Then comes marriage

Then comes Cathy wit a baby carriage

Submitter comment:

Other names may be substituted as long aas It's is a boys and a girls name.
 

Data entry tech comment:

Collector does not state what city it was learned.

Where learned: Informant's home in Detroit, MI

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Jump Rope Rhyme

House for sale.

House for rent.

When _________moves out.

___________moves in.

(The person junping while the rhyme is being called, yells out a name of another player and then he jumps in when the firest one jumps out.)

Where learned: Told informant's home .

Keyword(s): Call ; RHYME

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Jump Rope Rhyme

Grandma,Grandma, I am ill.

Send for a doctor for a pill.

Doctor,doctor, shall I die?

Yes, my dear, and so shall I.

Where learned: Informant said when a child arounrd 1915. Told to the collector at informant's home.

Keyword(s): Jump ; Planin

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Rope Skipping Rhyme

Andy Spandy Sugardy Candy

French Almond rock

Bread and butter for your supper

All your mother;s got.

Submitter comment:

Informant heard children saying this while skipping rope in Sussex, England.

Where learned: TOLD AT INFORMANT'S HOME

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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Jump Rope Rhyme

Blondie and Dagwood went to town,

Blondie bought an evening gown.

Dagwood bought a pair of shoes,

Alexander bought the news,

And in ther news it said,

"Close your eyes and count to ten."

"If you miss you take an end."

Data entry tech comment:

Collector and informant share the same surname and address.

Where learned: Told at informant's home.

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump

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Jump Rope Verse

Blue bells, cockle shells

Evy, Ivy , over.

(Informant is a friend's youngeist sister and she is about eight years old.

Where learned: Told in Informant's home.

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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