Catch a Fish, Put It in a Dish

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Catch a fish, Put it in a dish. Catch a mucket (?), Put it in a pocket. Catch a hen, Put it in a pen." And so forth, through as many rhymes as one can remember
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1953 (MidwestFolklore)
KEYWORDS: jumprope fishing bird
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #57, "Catch a Fish" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, Vance Randolph, "Jump Rope Rhymes From Arkansas" Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer 1953), pp. 81-82, "(Catch a fish)" (1 text)
File: AJRR057

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