Dream Lover, Where Are You?

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Dream lover, where are you? Upstairs upon the toilet school. Whatcha doing up there? Washing out my underwear. How do you get them so clean? With a bottle of Listerine."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Keystone Folklore Quarterly, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: love jumprope clothes derivative | toilet Listerine
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #124, "Dream lover, where are you?" (1 text)
Roud #19948
NOTES [44 words]: Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes says this is a "parody of a rock-and-roll hit of 1958." I presume this is Bobby Darin's "Dream Lover." But Darin did not write "Dream Lover" until 1959, recording it in that same year. There are details on the song's history on Wikipedia. - RBW
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File: AJRR124

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