Down the Mississippi Where the Boats Go Push

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope game, used to "push" one jumper out and another in. "Down the Mississippi Where the boats go push." Also a ball-bouncing rhyme
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (Ainsworth-JumpRopeVerses)
KEYWORDS: jumprope ship | push Mississippi
FOUND IN: US(MA,MW) Ireland
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 83, "(Down in Nelson's Pillar Where the boat goes push)" (1 text)
Ainsworth-JumpRopeVerses, #99, "(Down the Mississippi)" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #120, "Down the Mississippi" (1 text)
Roud #19314
File: AJRV099

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