Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme: "Rock and roll is here to stay, Here to stay, here to stay, Rock and roll is here to stay, Now work out....."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Keystone Folklore Quarterly, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope music | rock and roll
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #493, "Rock-and-roll is here to stay" (1 text)
Roud #19963
NOTES [45 words]: After more than half a century, the thesis of this song -- that rock and roll is here to stay -- is clearly true. Ironically, the rhyme that makes the statement does not seem to have survived very well.
I suspect this was derived from "London Bridge Is Falling Down." - RBW
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File: AJRR493

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