I Had a Little Monkey (II)

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "I had a little monkey, I sent him to the country, I fed him on gingerbread. He jumped out the winder (window), and broke his little finger, And now my monkey's dead."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Butler and Haley, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope death animal food | monkey window gingerbread
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #227, "I Had a Little Monkey" (1 text)
File: AJRR227

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