Little Lulu

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Little Lulu, Dressed in blulu, Down doing the hula hula."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Southern Folklore Quarterly, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope clothes dancing
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #313, "Little Lulu" (1 text)
NOTES [69 words]: Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes thinks "Little Lulu" refers to a comic strip character by the same name, drawn by American author Marjorie Henderson Buell ("Marge"). The strip ran from 1935 to 1944, and eventually was turned into short films and a TV series. Obviously the character might have inspired the verse, but this is beyond proof -- and Wikipedia claims that Little Lulu always wore a red dress, not a blue one. - RBW
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File: AJRR313

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