Blondie and Dagwood

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Blondie and Dagwood went downtown, Blondie bought an evening gown, Dagwood bought a pair of shoes, And Cookie bought the Daily News, And this is what it said, 'Close your eyes and count to ten.'" May have Ma/Dad for Blondie and Dagwood
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (Ainsworth-JumpRopeVerses)
KEYWORDS: travel mother father clothes jumprope | Blondie Dagwood counting
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Ainsworth-JumpRopeVerses, #13, "(Blondie and Dagwood)" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #40, "Blondie and Dagwood"; #593, "-- Went for a ride" (2 text)
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 129, "Ma and Pa went to town" (1 text)
Roud #19212
NOTES [68 words]: A lot of different names seem to have been plugged into this; Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes mentions one with "Fred and Wilma [Flintstone]," implying that children are still modifying it into quite recent times.
I stuck Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes #593 here because it requires a name for the first word, and he doesn't give one, so there is no real way to file it independently, and Abrahams says they are linked.- RBW
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File: AJRV013

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