One, Two, Three, Tommy Hurt His Knee

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "One, two, three, Tommy hurt his knee, He couldn't slide, and so he cried, Out goes he."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Southern Folklore Quarterly, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope injury | knee
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Withers-EenieMeenieMinieMo, p. 7, "(One, two three, Tommy hurt his knee)" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #444, "One, two three" (1 text)
File: AJRR444

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