Tommy, Tommy in the Tub

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Tommy, Tommy in the tub, Mother forgot to put in the plug, One heart, one soul, There goes Tommy down the hole."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1947 (Emirich and Korson, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope humorous disaster mother | tub plug
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #565, "Tommy, Tommy in the Tub" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Alice (The Bathtub Song)" (plot)
NOTES [44 words]: Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes seems to say this is the same as "Alice (The Bathtub Song)" and "One Two Three Four, Mary at the Cottage Door." I would say, rather, that it combines the the plot of the former with the fomat of the latter. So I have kept this separate. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.5
File: AJRR565

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