Red-headed Sapsucker

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme or taunt. "Red-headed sapsucker, Sitting on a vine, Wants a chew of 'bacca But he won't get mine."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1948 (Journal of American Folklore, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope bird drugs
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #480, "Red-headed sapsucker" (1 text)
NOTES [36 words]: it should be noted that there is no such bird as a "red-headed sapsucker." There are red-breasted sapsuckers, and red-headed woodpeckers (sapsuckers belong to the woodpecker family), but no combination of the two. - RBW
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File: AJRR480

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