I'm a Girl Dressed in Green

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme, perhaps derived from "I Am a Girl Guide." "I'm a girl dressed in green. My mother didn't want me, So she sent me to the Queen. The Queen she didn't want me, So she sent me to the King. The King said, Shut your eyes And count sixteen."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1965 (Ritchie)
KEYWORDS: clothes royalty mother rejection jumprope
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, # 203, "I'm a Girl Dressed in Green" (1 text)
Roud #19225
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "I Am a Girl Guide" (lyrics)
File: AJRR203

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