One Fine Day (II)

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "One fine day in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight, Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other, Two deaf policemen heard the noise... Ask the blind man, he saw it too."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (Ainsworth-JumpRopeVerses)
KEYWORDS: nonsense jumprope death police fight
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Ainsworth-JumpRopeVerses, #38, "(One bright morning in the middle of the night)" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #415, "One bright morning in the middle of the night" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #15, "(One fine day in the middle of the night)" (1 fragment)
Roud #19293
File: AJRV038

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