I'm a Little Brownie Dressed in Brown

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "I'm a little brownie dressed in brown, See my stocking fallin' down. Pick them up, pull them down, I'm a little brownie dressed in brown."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1965 (Ritchie)
KEYWORDS: clothes jumprope colors | brownie stockings
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #205, "I'm a little brownie dressed in brown" (1 text)
Roud #19225
NOTES [43 words]: Roud explicitly, and Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes implicitly, combine this with "I Am a Girl Guide," and the form is certainly similar, but this verse does not seem to appear with that song. It looks to me as if this was a deliberate put-down of the younger set. - RBW
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File: AJRR205

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