Charlie Chaplin Came to Duluth

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Charlie Chaplin came to Duluth To have a dentist pull his tooth, First he hollered, then he screamed, Then he asked for a dish of ice cream."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (North Star Folk News, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope food | Charlie Chaplin Duluth dentist
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #61, "Charlie Chaplin came to Duluth" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Charlie Chaplin Went to France" (subject of Chaplin) and references there
NOTES [22 words]: I suspect this is a form of one of the other Charlie Chaplin rhymes, but with no tune and just one verse, it's hard to know which. - RBW
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File: AJRR061

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