Round and Round the Butcher Shop

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Round and round the butcher shop, Can't stay any longer, If I do my mother said, I'm the butcher's daughter."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope mother | butcher
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #498, "Round and round the butcher shop" (1 text)
NOTES [18 words]: Presumably an offshoot of "Pop Goes the Weasel," but Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes does not make this explicit. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.5
File: AJRR498

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