Marco Polo Off He Ran

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Marco Polo off he ran, To the court of Kubla Khan, In the city of Cathay."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1965 (Those Dusty Bluebells)
KEYWORDS: jumprope travel | Marco Polo
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #329, "Marco Polo off he ran" (1 text)
NOTES [61 words]: It isn't clear whether this derives from Marco Polo's book, or from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan." Coleridge's poem does not mention "Cathay," but it does use the spelling "Kubla Khan" rather than the preferred "Kublai Khan" for the grandson of Genghis Kahn (1214-1294; he was Great Khan of the Mongols from 1260 and considered ruler of China from 1271). - RBW
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File: AJRR329

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