There Was a Little Nigger

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "There was a little nigger, Who never grew no bigger/Put him in a trigger, Sent him to the ten cent store. Fell out the window, Broke his little finger, And then he went home."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1941 (Journal of Genetic Psychology, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope injury
FOUND IN: US(MA) Britain(England)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, 555, "There was a little nigger" (1 text)
Roud #29320
NOTES [25 words]: Apologies for the title. I realize that people disapprove of bowdlerizing texts, but, shockingly, every scholar used the offensive first line as a title!
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File: AJRR555

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