Hi Ho! Skippety Toe

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme, "Hi ho! Skippety toe, Turn the ship and away we go. Judy and Jack dressed in black, Silver buttons down her back."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (Daiken, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope clothes ship
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #189, "Hi ho! Skippety toe" (1 text)
Roud #11498
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Mary Mack (I)" (lyrics)
NOTES [17 words]: Roud includes this with "Mary Mack (I)," which is clearly related, but I would consider it separate. - RBW
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File: AJRR189

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