The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

Loves of life

I love coffee,

I love tea,

I love the boys and the boys love me.

Submitter comment:

Informant could also remember hearing this entry on her old school payground.

Data entry tech comment:

Collector and informant share the same surname.

Where learned: Told at informants home.

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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Doctor, doctor

Doctor, doctor can you tell

What will make poor Susie well?

She is sick and going to die

That will make poor Peter cry.

When he comes dressed in blue

That's the time he'ill marry you.

Where learned: Was learned at informants home.

Keyword(s): Charcter ; Jump ; Plain

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Dutch Girl

I'm a little Dutch girl dressed in blue.

Here art the things I like to do bow to the captain cursty to the queen.

Touch the bottom of the dirty submarine.
 

Data entry tech comment:

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

Where learned: Informants home.

Keyword(s): ACTION ; CHARACTER ; RHYME

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Jump-Rope Rhyme

Blondie and Dagwood went downtown.

Blondie bought an evening gown.

Dagwood bought a pair of shoes.

Cookie bought the evneing news.

This is what it said:

Lady on one foot, one foot, one foot,

Lady on two feet, two feet, two feet,

Lady on three, feet, three feet,three feet,

Lady on four feet, four feet four.

Where learned: Informant learded from her sister. Collector at informants home.

Keyword(s): ACTION ; CHARACTER ; RHYME

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