Roses Red, Roses White

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme, which may open with the line "B-L-E-S-S-I-N-G." "Roses red, roses white, Roses in my garden; I would not part With my sweetheart For twopence, ha'penny farthing."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1898 (Gomme, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: money flowers love colors jumprope separation | rose red white
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #496, "Roses red, roses white" (1 text)
Roud #1202
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Rose in June" (lyrics)
NOTES [39 words]: The basic lyric of this rhyme derives from "Rose in June," and Roud understandably lumps them. But this seems to exist on its own, as a jump-rope rhyme, so I have split them -- with the understanding that they are "really" one item. - RBW
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File: AJRR496

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