Red, White and Blue, My Mother Caught the Flu

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Red, white, and blue, My mother caught the flu. My father lost his walking stick, And I blame you!" Or "...and blue, Your father is a Jew. Your mother is a Japanese/Chinaman, And so are you!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1965 (Ritchie)
KEYWORDS: jumprope colors mother father disease Jew | flu walking stick
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #486, "Red, white and blue"; #488, "Red, white, and blue" (2 texts)
Roud #19441
NOTES [46 words]: Steve Roud lumps this with "Red, White, and Blue (III)," which is also a jump-rope rhyme starting "Red, white, and blue," but the stanza form is different, so I keep them separate. I have lumped two items that Abrahams splits, because the two do have the same stanza form.- RBW
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File: AJRR486

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