Goodbye May While You're Away

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Goodbye Mary/May, While you're away, Send a letter home, Say you're better, love, Don't forget your dear old (Nell)"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1816 (Douglas, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope separation home | letter
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #154, "Good bye (May) wile you're away" (1 text)
Roud #22996
File: AJRR154

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