Vote, Vote, Vote

DESCRIPTION: Sometimes a jump-rope rhyme. "Vote, vote, vote for (someone); She'll kick (someone) out the door." The other candidate may be called a dope, or worthy of a punch, "So we don't want (someone) any more."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (Ainsworth-JumpRopeVerses)
KEYWORDS: jumprope political | vote
FOUND IN: US(MW,Ro,SW) Ireland
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Ainsworth-JumpRopeVerses, #85, "(Vote, vote, vote for Karen)"; #91, "(Vote, vote for Mary)"; #126, "(Rah, rah, rah! for Belinda)"; #132, "(Vote, vote, vote for Mary)" (4 texts)
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 80, "(Vote, vote, vote)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 22, "(Vote, vote, vote for (Margaret Beatty))" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #585, "Vote, vote, vote for ..." (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #36, "(Vote, vote, vote for (Billy Martin)" (1 text)
Roud #19059
NOTES [95 words]: The pattern of this seems to be pretty standardized: Vote, vote, vote for (X), Send (Y) out the door, (two rhymed lines that might be about anything), because we don't need (Y) any more. But, in addition to the names, the details of the lines -- especially lines 3 and 4 -- vary dramatically. A few versions seem to be overtly political (apparently there was one about British party leader Neil Kinnock!), but often it's just a way to change the jumper in a jump-rope game: They "elect" a new jumper and send out the old jumper whom they "don't want/need any more." - RBW
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