News Time, One Cent

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme, perhaps from a taunt. "News time, one cent, Help your mother pay the rent, Your father's in jail, For stealing a pail, Nwws time, one cent."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (New York Folk Quarterly, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope mother father prison | news
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #392, "News time, One cent" (1 text)
File: AJRR392

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