Come in My Garden

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme, apparently with no complete text known. "Come in my garden And give me your hand...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Douglas, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope | garden
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #86, "Come in my garden" (1 fragment)
Roud #22180
NOTES [29 words]: I'm indexing this because Steve Roud did, but with no additional versions found in the century since Douglas gave us the partial text, I'm fairly sure this is lost forever. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.5
File: AJRR086

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