Ladies and Gentlemen (II)

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Ladies and gentlemen, To tell you the facts, I lost my britches On the railroad tracks. They flew so high Into the sky They didn't come back Till the Fourth of July."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Southern Folklore Quarterly, according toAbrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope talltale clothes railroading
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #301, "Ladies and gentlemen" (1 text)
File: AJRR301

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