Tillie the Toiler, Never Late

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Tillie the Toiler, never late, She's always at the office at half past eight."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1966 (Edith Fowke collection, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope work
FOUND IN: Canada
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #563, "Tillie the toiler, never late" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Tillie the Toiler Sat on a Boiler" (subject of Tillie)
NOTES [51 words]: "Tillie the Toiler" was a comic strip character, originated in 1921 by Russ Westover; there was a (silent) film about her in 1927 and another in 1941. It appears she was an attractive office worker and part-time model who had a complex personal life. The strip ended in 1959, according to Wikipedia. - RBW
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File: AJRR563

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