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 Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #67, "Charlie, Charlie, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck" (1 text)
Daiken-OutGoesShe, p. 30, "(Charlie, Charlie, chuck chuck chuck" (1 text)
Roud #19303
NOTES [80 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.
There was a nineteenth century song, "Pretty Little Mary, or Chuck, Chuck, Chuck," beginning "To Farmer Jones's I went down one lovely February, For change of air I had left town, For I felt so forlorn." (See, e.g., Russells-GooseAndIngunsSongster, p 5.) I don't think it's related. - RBW
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File: AJRR067

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