Charlie Chaplin Went to War

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme: "Charlie Chaplin went to war, When he came back his pants were tore."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1940 (Fargo Forum, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope clothes war | Charlie Chaplin
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #66, "Charlie Chaplin went to war" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Charlie Chaplin Went to France" (subject of Chaplin) and references there
NOTES [67 words]: I don't know if it's significant to the history of this song, or any of the other Charlie Chaplin songs, but according to John Mullen, The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain during the First World War, French edition 2012; English edition, Ashgate, 2015, p. 58, an imitator of Charlie Chaplin was a typical feature of the divisional entertainments staged by British troops during World War I. - RBW
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File: AJRR066

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