Lady in the Boat, A

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme: "A lady in the boat With a red petticoat And her name is... MISS!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1941 (Journal of Genetic Psychology, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: ship clothes jumprope derivative | name
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #303, "A Lady in the boat" (1 text)
NOTES [37 words]: Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes says that this "resembles a riddle whose referent is 'the clitoris.'" Which raises the obvious suspicion that some child heard the riddle, didn't understand it, and made it into a jump-rope game. - RBW
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File: AJRR303

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