Johnny Maloney

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme or taunt. "Johnny Maloney, Stick stick stony, High balla, O dalla, Johnny Maloney." Or "Annie cum banny, Tee alligo kanny, Tee-legged, tie-legged, bow-legged Annie"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Butler and haley, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope nonsense
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #16, "Annie cum banny"; #290, "Johnny Maloney" (2 texts)
NOTES [36 words]: Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes links these two, for no reason I can see except that they are both nonsense and both from Butler and Haley, but since both seem to be unique and neither means anything, I'm lumping them. - RBW
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File: AJRR290

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