Each Peach Pear Plum

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Each, peach, pear, plum, Out goes my chum, My chum is no' very well, So I must go out mysel'." Or, "...plum, Who is your very best chum?" after which the child's name is spelled
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1958 (Gardner collection, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope food disease | fruit
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes,#129, "Eachie Peachie Pearie Plum" (1 text)
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 49, "Each a peach, a pear, a plum" (2 texts)
Roud #19217
File: AJRR129

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