One Day A-E and Jimmy

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme and joke. "One day A-E and Jimmy were going to a movie. Jimmy found that he had no money. A-E said, 'I will borrow (sic.) you 25 cents. When the movie was over, Jimmy said, 'A-E, I-O-U 25 cents."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Southern Folklore Quarterly, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope wordplay money | movie
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #416, "One day A-E and Jimmy were going to a movie" (1 text)
File: AJRR416

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