I Come from Chinka China

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "I come from Chinka China, My home is 'cross the sea. I do my daily laundry For fifty cents a week. Oh, Mary, Mary, Mary, you ought to be ashamed, To marry, marry, marry, A boy without a name."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (Bluebells My Cockle Shells)
KEYWORDS: jumprope courting clothes marriage China | laundry
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #217, "I come from Chink-a-China" (1 text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 27, "(I come from Chinky China)" (1 text)
Roud #19438
File: AJRR217

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