Charlie, Charlie, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Charlie, Charlie, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, Went to bed with two old ducks. One died, the other cried, Charlie, Charlie, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (Daiken, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope bird death | duck
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #67, "Charlie, Charlie, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck" (1 text)
Roud #19303
NOTES [33 words]: Roud lumps this with "Charley Barley," which I don't see. It's probably the same as "Charlie Chuck Married a Duck" (which Roud also lumps), but the form is different, so I tentatively split them. - RBW
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File: AJRR067

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