Hello, Hello Sir

DESCRIPTION: "Hello, hello, sir! Meet me at the grocer. No, sir! Why, sir? Because I have a cold, sir. Where did you get the cold,.... At the north Pole.... What were you doing there... Catching polar bears. How many did you catch? One, two... ten. Old Dutch cleanser
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1947 (Yoffie, according to Coffin & Cohen)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad commerce jumprope
FOUND IN: US(SW) Ireland Australia
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 130, "Hello, hello, hello, sir" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #175, "Hello, sir, hello, sir"; #595, "What are you doing here, Sir?" (2 texts)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 22, "(A very good morning to you, sir)" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, Dorothy Howard, "Ball Bouncing Customs and Rhymes in Australia," Volume 9, Number 2 (Summer 1959) p. 83, "Hello, Hello, Hello, Sir" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Tristram P. Coffin and Hennig Cohen, _Folklore in America: Tales, Songs, Superstitions, Proverbs, Riddles, Games, Folk Drama and Folk Festivals_, Doubleday, 1966, p. 188, "A Ball-Bouncing and Rope-Jumping Song" (1 text)
Roud #19189
NOTES [44 words]: Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes splits his two texts, and I see his point, but the forms of this are so extremely diverse that it seems almost pointless to try to split -- we could create a dozen songs, all related, with no clear dividing line between versions. A mess. - RBW
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File: CoCo188

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