Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Round and Fat

DESCRIPTION: Clapping song/game. "Pumpkin pumpkin round and fat, Turn into a jack-o’lantern, Just like THAT!" (Jump and make a jack-o-lantern face.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 2023 (Derek Piotr archive)
KEYWORDS: food | game pumpkin jack-o-lantern
FOUND IN: US(NE)
RECORDINGS:
Patricia Campbell, "Pumpkin, Pumpkin" (Piotr-Archive #500, recorded 02/23/2023)
NOTES [38 words]: Every version of this that I've found online has exactly the same text, and the few with tunes were all identical except for time signature. Presumably there is a recent common original. But I have not found any authorship claim.
Last updated in version 6.7
File: DPio500

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