In the Dark Dark World
DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "In the dark, dark world, There's a dark dark country, In the dark dark country, There's a dark dark wood. In the dark dark wood, There's a dark dark house. In the dark dark house There is... a man drying to mend a fuse!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1974 (Ritchie)
KEYWORDS: jumprope technology humorous | darkness wood house fuse
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #252, "In the dark dark world" (1 text)
File: AJRR252
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