Charlie Chaplin Has Big Feet

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Charlie Chaplin has big feet, He thinks he owns the whole darn street. If the street were made of glass, Charlie would fall and break his... Don't get excited, don't get alarmed, Charlie would fall and break his arm."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (New York Folk Quarterly, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope wordplay injury | Charlie Chaplin fall street
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #62, "Charlie Chaplin Has Big Feet" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Charlie Chaplin Went to France" (subject of Chaplin) and references there
cf. "Three Little Angels" (general form of wordplay)
cf. "There Was a Little Fellow, His Name Was Jack" (general form of wordplay)
File: AJRR062

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