Lady in the Tight Skirt

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Lady in the tight skirt Can't do this, Lady in the tight skirt, Can't do this," and repeat indefinitely
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Ritchie)
KEYWORDS: clothes jumprope
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #304, "Lady in the tight skirt" (1 text)
Roud #20152
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Spanish Dancer" (lyrics)
NOTES [32 words]: To me, this feels as if it might be a fragment of "Spanish Dancer" (e.g. the "Dolly Dimple can't do this" variant), but Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes and Roud both separate them, so I do so also. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.5
File: AJRR304

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