Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue

DESCRIPTION: "Columbus sailed/crossed the ocean blue In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Three ships came sailing in with him, too, Just so say the 'it' is you."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes)
KEYWORDS: sea travel ship | Columbus counting-out
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 116, "Columbus crossed the ocean blue" (1 text)
Roud #19309
NOTES [22 words]: This doesn't seem to have been collected much, but I heard it when young (though I don't remember it as a counting-out rhyme). - RBW
Last updated in version 6.4
File: DCCR116B

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