Lassie Come Home

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme: "Lassie come home, Lassie come home, Lassie come H-O-M-E." (Pobably you can repeat even more than that. Or say "Lassie, go away.")
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (Opie collection, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope dog home
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #308, "Lassie come home" (1 text)
NOTES [42 words]: Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes suggests that the "Lassie" of this short item is the dog of Eric Knight's book Lassie Come Home. It seems likely, but there is no explicit proof (e.g. it would be interesting if there were a verse, "Lassie, fetch, fetch!"). - RBW
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File: AJRR308

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