All over Italy

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope verse. "All over Italy, The kings are playing leap-frog. One, two, three and over...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1965 (Ritchie, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope royalty | Italy
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #8, "All Over Italy" (1 text)
NOTES [43 words]: I wonder if there was a variant of this that once went, "All over Germany...." Until the mid-nineteenth century, Germany and Italy were not united countries, consisting rather of many small states. So they could have multiple king. Or at least kinglets. - RBW
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File: AJRR008

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