Up in a Loft A Long Way Off

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Up in a loft, A long way off, The donkey's got the whooping cough. The doctor said That he must take Salt, vinegar, mustard, pepper."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1968 (Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope animal doctor disease floatingverses | donkey
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #583, "Up in a Loft" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Down in the Meadow Not Far Off"
NOTES [68 words]: Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes lists his earliest version as from 1916, but I am far from convinced his versions are all one song, so I haven't listed that as the earliest date. It possibly should be lumped with "Down in the Meadow Not Far Off," which includes a lot of the same floating material.
For more on whooping cough, and its (non)-occurrence in animals, see the notes to "Old Cow Died of Whooping Cough." - RBW
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File: AJRR583

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