Nineteen Hundred Forty-Two

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Nineteen hundred forty-two, Truman lost a shoe, Went to France, Lost his pants, now he's in a zoo"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (Musick, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope clothes | 1942 Truman shoe pants France zoo
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #396, "Nineteen hundred forty-two" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Cock a Doodle Doo" (lyrics)
NOTES [36 words]: Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes thinks this is about Harry S Truman, and this would be possible by 1952, when he was president. But in 1942? He was just an obscure senator. I suspect either the name or the date got changed. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.5
File: AJRR396

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