There Is a School

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "In Leicester Square there is a school, And in that school there is a room, And in that room there is a desk, And in that desk there is a book, And in that... there is a Ghost!" Or other links, e.g. a page from which one learns
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (Bluebells My Cockle Shells)
KEYWORDS: jumprope ghost | school book picture page alphabet learning
FOUND IN: Briitain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #249, "In Leicester Square there is a school"; #250, "In Liverpool There is a school" (1 text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 23, "(On the mountain stands a school)" (1 text)
Roud #23011 and 38954
File: AJRR249

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