Granny in the Kitchen

DESCRIPTION: "As I/Granny in the kitchen, Doing a bit of stitching, In came a bogey man, And I walked out. I saw a lark Shining in the dark."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Douglas, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: clothes bird | grandmother bogey
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond),Scotland) US(Ap,SW) Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #22, "As I was in the kitchen" (1 text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 22, "(Polly in the kitchen)" (1 text)
Roud #19244
File: AJRR022

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