Icklety-Picklety

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Icklety-picklety, isia-lickerty, Boom ta-ra jib. Every man man in Chinatown ought to wear a wig. One, two, three, Out pops she, Icklety-picklety, isia-lickerty, Boom ta-ra-ra jig"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (Bluebells My Cockle Shells, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: nonsense jumprope | Chinatown
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #216, "Icklety-Picklety" (1 text)
Roud #20482
NOTES [29 words]: I strongly suspect this originated as a jumble of other jump-rope or counting-out rhymes, but since Roud and Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes both make it a separate item, I do to. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.5
File: AJRR216

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