Ke Clop

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Ke clop, ke clop, ke clop, ke clop, A hundred times before we stop, And if we trip (as trip we may), We'll try again some other day. One, two, three...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Butler and Haley, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope travel
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #294, "Ke clop, ke clop, ke clop, ke clop" (1 text)
NOTES [27 words]: My gut instinct strongly suggests to me that the first line of this should really be Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop... as of a horse walking to... wherever. - RBW
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File: AJRR294

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