Be You Dark or Be You Fair

DESCRIPTION: "Be you dark or be you fair, What is the color of your hair?" (color names follow, e.g. black, brown, yellow, red, then perhaps R-E-D, and you are IT)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1982 (Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes)
KEYWORDS: colors hair | counting-out
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 122, "Be you dark or be you fair" (1 text)
NOTES [18 words]: I'm quite sure I've heard this before, even though I can't say where, so I'm indexing it just in case. - RBW
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File: DCCR122

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