Up and Down Jamaica Town

DESCRIPTION: jump-rope rhyme. "Up and down Jamaica Town, A house made out of glass. I stepped into a lady's house And there she made me laugh."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Southern Follore Quarterly, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope home
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #580, "Up and down Jamaica Town" (1 text)
File: AJRR580

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