Drink Your Whiskey

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Drink your whiskey, Drink your cider, How many legs Is on a spider? One, two, three...." Or, Sugar, salt, pepper, cider, How many legs on a bow-legged spider"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1934 (MidwestFolklore)
KEYWORDS: drink jumprope bug food | spider legs
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #125, "Drink your whiskey"; #552, "Sugar, salt, pepper, cider" (2 texts)
MidwestFolklore, Vance Randolph, "Jump Rope Rhymes From Arkansas" Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer 1953), p. 78, "(Drink Your Whiskey)" (1 text)
NOTES [27 words]: Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes obviously splits his two rhymes. But I consider the words, "...cider, How many legs on a spider" to be diagnostic, so I've lumped them. - RBW
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File: AJRR125

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