Plainy Clappy (Plainy Marmalade, Plainy Packet of Rinso)

DESCRIPTION: "Plainy, clappy, rolley, to-backy, Hippy, tippy...." Or "Plainy marmalade (x2), One of the nurses Lost her purses, Plainy marmalade." Or "Plainy packet of Rinso, Over packet of Rinso, Downy packet of Rinso, Dashy packet..., Right leg packet...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1955 (MidwestFolklore)
KEYWORDS: nonballad food
FOUND IN: Ireland Australia
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Brady-AllInAllIn, pp. 62, "(Plainy, clappy, rolley, to-backy)"; p. 64, "(Plainy marmalade)"; "(Plainy packet of Rinso)" (3 texts)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 31, "(Plainy, clappy, roly-poly)" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, Dorothy Howard, "Ball Bouncing Customs and Rhymes in Australia," Volume 9, Number 2 (Summer 1959) p. 86, "Plainsies, Clapsies" (1 text)
Roud #19541
NOTES [39 words]: The texts of this are all very different, but all seem to be one-shots. Roud lumps them, and while I'm not sure I agree, I'm not sure they're worth splitting. The key word is "Plainy," found at the start of most if not all versions. - RBW
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