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Jump Rope Rhymes: A Dictionary (Publications of the American Folklore Society) (1969)

door Roger D. Abrahams

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I had a little brother.His name was Tiny Tim.I put him in the bathtubTo teach him how to swim.He drank all the water.He ate all the soap.He died last nightWith a bubble in his throat.Jump-rope rhymes, chanted to maintain the rhythm of the game, have other, equally entertaining uses:You can dispatch bothersome younger siblings instantly?and temporarily.You can learn the name of your boyfriend through the magic words "Ice cream soda, Delaware Punch, Tell me the initials of my honey-bunch."You can perform the series of tasks set forth in "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around" and find out who, really, is the most nimble.You can even, with impunity, "conk your teacher on the bean with a rotten tangerine. "This collection of over six hundred jump-rope rhymes, originally published in 1969, is an introduction into the world of children?their attitudes, their concerns, their humor. Like other children's folklore, the rhymes are both richly inventive and innocently derivative, ranging from on-the-spot improvisations to old standards like "Bluebells, cockleshells," with a generous sprinkling of borrowings from other play activities?nursery rhymes, counting-out rhymes, and taunts. Even adult attitudes of the time are appropriated, but expressed with the artless candor of the child:Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.Catch Castro by the toe.If he hollers make him say"I surrender, U.S.A."Though aware that children's play serves social and psychological functions, folklorists had long neglected analytical study of children's lore because primary data was not available in organized form. Roger Abraham's Dictionary has provided such a bibliographical tool for one category of children's lore and a model for future compendia in other areas. The alphabetically arranged rhymes are accompanied by notes on sources, provenience, variants, and connection with other play activities.… (meer)

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Books of children's game songs are a challenge: They represent a tremendous amount of information in a tiny amount of space, because most of the games are just two or four or six lines long. So this thin little volume contains more than six hundred items, and (as a wild guess) maybe three thousand references.

It is a tremendous achievement, which I suspect will never be equaled. If you have an interest in children's folklore, it is vital. Unfortunately, it will leave you wanting more.

For starters, Roger D. Abrahams quotes only one text of each item, even if it's something like "Cinderella Dressed in Yellow" or "Miss Mary Mack" that has been collected dozens or hundreds of times. If Abrahams quotes other Cinderella verses, they are separate items; it is not clear that kids might take turns with "Cinderella dressed in yellow," then red, green, pink.... Also, no melodies are cited. And while Abrahams always quotes a text, and then lists books and page references for each rhyme, he does not cite which of the various sources he cites was the source of the text he quotes. (In this, he falls short of the practice of, say, Malcolm Laws, who created a somewhat-similar catalog of ballads.) And there is almost no background; Abrahams has a glossary of technical terms (e.g. "Hot peppers" making the rope twirl particularly quickly) and of characters mentioned in the pieces, but nothing about the contexts in which the rhymes arose.

These are significant weaknesses, especially the lack of clarity about which text he cites and the lack of background about the pieces. And, given that lines and couplets often "float" between these songs, he needs more cross-references, and clearer cross references (distinguishing cases where two items are "the same" and when they just share some words, or a character such as Charlie Chaplin or Shirley Temple). Which does not change the fact that this is a tremendous reference. If you are using one of the several dozen books Abrahams cites, and find in it a jump-rope rhyme and want to know if it has been found elsewhere, then Abrahams is the reference you need. It's just that you'll need to do a lot of work after finding the song in Abrahams. (

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Until relatively recently the ancient pastime of jumping rope was exclusively a boys' activity and had no rhymed games associated with it.

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I had a little brother.His name was Tiny Tim.I put him in the bathtubTo teach him how to swim.He drank all the water.He ate all the soap.He died last nightWith a bubble in his throat.Jump-rope rhymes, chanted to maintain the rhythm of the game, have other, equally entertaining uses:You can dispatch bothersome younger siblings instantly?and temporarily.You can learn the name of your boyfriend through the magic words "Ice cream soda, Delaware Punch, Tell me the initials of my honey-bunch."You can perform the series of tasks set forth in "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around" and find out who, really, is the most nimble.You can even, with impunity, "conk your teacher on the bean with a rotten tangerine. "This collection of over six hundred jump-rope rhymes, originally published in 1969, is an introduction into the world of children?their attitudes, their concerns, their humor. Like other children's folklore, the rhymes are both richly inventive and innocently derivative, ranging from on-the-spot improvisations to old standards like "Bluebells, cockleshells," with a generous sprinkling of borrowings from other play activities?nursery rhymes, counting-out rhymes, and taunts. Even adult attitudes of the time are appropriated, but expressed with the artless candor of the child:Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.Catch Castro by the toe.If he hollers make him say"I surrender, U.S.A."Though aware that children's play serves social and psychological functions, folklorists had long neglected analytical study of children's lore because primary data was not available in organized form. Roger Abraham's Dictionary has provided such a bibliographical tool for one category of children's lore and a model for future compendia in other areas. The alphabetically arranged rhymes are accompanied by notes on sources, provenience, variants, and connection with other play activities.

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