I Have a Toothache

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "I have a toothache, A gumboil, a tummy-ache, A pain on my left side, a pimple on my bum/tongue." May have a continuation about the Queen of May.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (Daiken)
KEYWORDS: disease jumprope | pain toothache
FOUND IN: Britain Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #232, "I have a tooth-ache" (1 text)
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 172, "I Have a Gumboil" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #19326
ALTERNATE TITLES:
I Have a Gumboil
File: AJRR232

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