Relieve-Ee-O

DESCRIPTION: Team game ending with "All in ! All in! The game is broken up" or lets players rejoin their teams when the leader shouts "Relieve-Ee-O." A game may start, "Down in the alley-o, Where we play relieve-ee-o. Up comes her mother-o...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1975 (Brady-AllInAllIn)
KEYWORDS: game mother | washing
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brady-AllInAllIn, pp. 146-147, "Relieve-ee-o" (1 partial text, 1 tune); p. 169, "Down in the alley-o" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #38157
File: BAAI146

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