Cinderella Dressed in Yellow

DESCRIPTION: "Cinderella, dressed in yellow, Went downtown to see her fellow. How many kisses did the get?" "Made a mistake, And kissed a snake, How many doctors did it take?" "Dressed in red, Went downtown to buy some thread.... A fellow... shot her dead"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1958 (Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore)
KEYWORDS: courting colors clothes poison death jumprope | Cinderella counting
FOUND IN: US(MA.MW,Ro,SE,So,SW) Ireland
REFERENCES (13 citations):
Carey-MarylandFolkloreAndFolklife, pp. 79, "(no title)" (1 text)
Byington/Goldstein-TwoPennyBallads, p. 116, "(no title; filed under "Rope Jumping") (1 short text)
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 224, "Cinderella" (1 text)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 44, "(Cinderella, dressed in yellow)" (1 text, filed under "Jump Rope Rhymes"); pp. 60-61, "Cinderella," "Dressed in Green," "My Little Sister, "Dressed in Black"; p. 64, "Dressed in Brown"; "Powder Her Nose" (6 texts, listed as separate and with different endings but likely used together)
Ainsworth-JumpRopeVerses, #24, "(Cinderella, dressed in yellow)"; #34, "(Cinderella, dressed in yellow)";#53, "(Cinderella, dressed in yellow)"; #56, "(Cinderella, dressed in yellow)"; #109, "(Cinderella, dressed in yellow)"; #120, "(Cinderella, dressed in yellow)"; #128, "(Cinderella, dressed in yellow)" (7 texts)
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 127, "Cinderella, dressed in yellow" (1 text)
Withers-EenieMeenieMinieMo, p. 37, "(Jean, Jean, dressed in green)" (1 text, perhaps this)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #80, "Cinderella, dressed in yellow" (1 text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 25, "(Cinderella)" (1 text)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, (Joan McCaskill, collector), "Rope-Skipping Games", Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jun 1948), p. 10, "(Cinderella, dressed in yellow)" (1 text)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Teri John, "A Collection of Jump Rope Rhymes," Vol. XXI, No. 1 (Apr 1973), p. 15, "(Cinderella, dressed in yellow)" (2 texts)
MidwestFolklore, Vance Randolph, "Jump Rope Rhymes From Arkansas" Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer 1953), p. 78, "(Ella, Ella, dressed in yellow)"; "(Cinderella, dressed in yellow)" (2 texts)
LibraryThingCampSongsThread, post 12, "(Cinderella Dressed in Yella)" (1 mention, from user Crypto-Willobie, posted August 28, 2021)
Roud #18410
NOTES [18 words]: Based on the list in Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, this is one of the most popular jump-rope rhymes there is. - RBW
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