Up the Ladder, Down the Wall

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Up the ladder, down the wall, A penny load will serve us all, A bit for you, a bit for me, A bit for all the family." "You buy butter and I'll buy flour, And we'll have pudding in half an hour."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Douglas)
KEYWORDS: jumprope food commerce | butter flour pudding bread ladder
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond)) US(SE,SW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Ainsworth-JumpRopeVerses, #26, "(Up the ladder, down the ladder)"; #55, "(Up the ladder, Down the ladder)"; #114, "(Up the ladder, down the ladder)" (3 texts)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #581, "Up and down the ladder wall" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #75, "(Up the ladder and down the wall)" (1 text)
Roud #19617
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Bluebells, Cockleshells" ("You buy X and I'll buy Y" lyric)
cf. "Up the Ladder, Down the Spout" (first line)
NOTES [25 words]: Roud lumps this with "Up the Ladder, Down the Spout," but they don't seem to have anything in common except the first three words, so I've split them.
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File: AJRV026

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