I Scream You Scream

DESCRIPTION: "I scream, you scream, We all scream for ice cream." Sometimes a jump-rope rhyme; sometimes a tongue-twister -- but probably most often a sales pitch
AUTHOR: Howard Johnson, Billy Moll, Robert King
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: food jumprope | ice cream scream
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 121, "I scream, you scream" (1 text)
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 120, "I scream, you scream" (1 short text)
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 96, "(I scream, you scream)" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #256, "I scream" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #102, "(I scream)" (1 text)
Roud #19370
NOTES [48 words]: This was apparently an actual popular song, performed, e.g., by Jimmy Durante. Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 369, estimates that this was #7 song in America in February 1928. - RBW
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