You Naughty Lady

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "You naughty lady, You stole my baby, You named it Sadie, You naughty LADY!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1965 (Ritchie)
KEYWORDS: jumprope baby
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #619, "You naughty lady" (1 text)
Roud #20196
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "You Naughty Boy" (format)
cf. "You Naughty Flea" (format)
cf. "You Naughty Girl" (format)
NOTES [63 words]: It seems clear to me that "You Naughty Boy," "You Naughty Girl," "You Naughty Lady," and probably "You Naughty Flea" (Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes #616-#619) are different parts of the same collective item, and should be examined jointly -- but Roud assigns them separate numbers ("Boy": #20484; "Flea": #22193; "Girl": #20196; "Lady": #20196 again), so I have filed them separately.
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File: AJR619

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