Fireman, Fireman, Number Eight

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Engine, engine, number eight, Struck his head against a gate, The gate flew in, the gate flew out, And that's the way the fire went out."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Southern Folk Quarterly, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope technology | fire fireman
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Withers-EenieMeenieMinieMo, p. 28, "(Fireman, fireman)" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #142, "Fireman, fireman, number eight" (1 text)
NOTES [15 words]: This really sounds like a parody of "Engine, Engine Number Nine." But I can't prove it. - RBW
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File: AJRR142

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