The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

Jump Rope Rhyme

Hello operator

Give me number nine

If she doesn't answer

Please give me bakc my dime...

(There is mor to this but the informant could only rememeber one more line.)

...Behind the iron curtain

Data entry tech comment:

Collector does not state what city the informant lives.

Where learned: Informant learned at home .

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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Rope jumping rhyme

I'm a little Dutch girl dressed in blue.

Here are thethings I liked to do,

Salute to the captain,

Cursty to the queen

Turn my back on the mean old king.

Data entry tech comment:

Collector and informant share the same surname.

Where learned: Informant learned at home .

Keyword(s): ACTION ; CHARACTER ; RHYME

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A tisket, a tasket

A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket

I wrote a letter to my mother and on the way I dropped,

I dropped it, I dropper it, and on the way I dropper ;

I wrote a letter to my mother and on the way I dropped it.

(While this is being chanted, one person takes a hankerchief and circles around a ring formed by the others.  He drops the handkerchief behind one, and thn the person must circle the others, repeating the procedure.)

Submitter comment:

(Celste's versoin has "my love instead of "my mother")

Data entry tech comment:

Collector does not state where the informants live. Collector shares the same surname as  one of the two informants.

Where learned: Informants learned at home in 1954.

Keyword(s): ACTION ; RHYME

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Jumping Rope Rhyme

Cups and saucers, dishes and plates

How many dishes did you break?

1,2,3, ....(The jumper keeps jumping until a miss)

Data entry tech comment:

Collector does not state where the informant lives.  Collector and informant share the same surname.

Where learned: Informant learned it at home.

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE ; Jump

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Jump-Rope Rhyme

Appleassauce, mustard, cider

How many legs has a spider?

One, two, three, etc.

(Until the jumpermisses)

Submitter comment:

(Informant was apathetic towards this item)

Where learned: This was learned at home in Allen Park, Michigan .

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE ; Jump

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