I Went to Fulton Ferry

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "I went to Fulton Ferry and I couldn't get across. I paid a half-dollar for an old blind horse. The horse wouldn't pull, I sold it for a bull. The bull wouldn't holler, so I sold it for a dollar." And so on, through more failed trades
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (New York Times Magazine, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope travel horse commerce
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #272, "I went to Fulton Ferry and I couldn't get across" (1 text)
NOTES [27 words]: A sort of combination of "Turkey in the Straw" lyrics with a "Swapping Boy" motif. Most of the lines have parallels elsewhere but the combination is unique. - RBW
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File: AJRR272

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