Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow Never Comes

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, Never comes, Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow Always runs."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Southern Folklore Quarterly, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope | tomorrow
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #566, "Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow" (1 text)
NOTES [37 words]: "The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam to-day" -- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, chapter V, "Wool and Water (spoken by the White Queen, about a fifth of the way through the chapter). - RBW
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File: AJRR566

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