Who Is Knocking at My Door?

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Who is knocking at my door? 'It is I," said the fly. 'One, two, three, four."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1963 (Southern Folklore Quarterly, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope bug
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #608, "Who is knocking at my door?" (1 text)
NOTES [53 words]: I wonder if the last line of this originally read "One, two, three, four, FIVE," to at least roughly rhyme with "fly." Either that, or another line has been lost. Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes thinks this might come from either "Who Killed Cock Robin" or "Bollochy Bill the Sailor," which often has the same first line. - RBW
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File: AJRR608

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