I had a little brother. His name was Tiny Tim. I put him in the
bathtub To teach him how to swim. He drank all the water. He ate
all the soap. He died last night With 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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