One O'Clock the Gun Went Off

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme? "One o'clock the gun went off, I dare not stay no longer, If I do my mother will say Playing with the boys up yonder." "Stockings red, garters blue... and a gold ring on my finger.... The only one I love best Is my bonny, bonny Johnnie-O"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (Ritchie, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope love mother clothes ring
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #423, "One O'Clock the Gun Went Off"; #531, "Stockings red and garters blue" (2 texts)
Roud #21731
NOTES [55 words]: Much of this looks like it comes from versions of "Katie Cruel (The Leeboy's Lassie; I Know Where I'm Going)." The verse "Stockings red and garters blue, Shoes laced up with silver" also exists independently (it, not the "One O'clock the gun went off" stanza, is Roud #21731). But as a whole it looks like an independent piece. - RBW
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File: AJRR423

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