Johnny on the Ocean

DESCRIPTION: Singing game. "Johnny on the ocean, Johnny on the sea, Johnny broke a milk bottle, And blamed it on me, I told Ma, Ma told Pa, Johnny got a whipping, Ha, ha, ha, How many whippings d he get?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (Dorson)
KEYWORDS: playparty punishment mother father sea jumprope | counting
FOUND IN: US(MA,MW,NE,Ro,SE,So,SW)
REFERENCES (10 citations):
McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks, p. 100, "(Johnny over the ocean)" (1 text)
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 224, "Johnny over the Ocean" (1 text)
Carey-MarylandFolkloreAndFolklife, pp. 77-78, "(no title)" (1 text)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 102, "Bobby" (1 text)
Ainsworth-JumpRopeVerses, #7, "(Johnie over the ocean)"; #20, "(Down by the ocean)"; #36, "(Cross the river, cross the sea)"; #47, "Johnny on the ocean)"; #60, "(Johnnny over the ocean)"; #87, "(Johnny over the ocean)"; #106, "(Down by the river, Down by the sea)"; #122, "(Down by the river, Down by the sea)"; #138, "(Down by the river, Down by the sea)" (8 texts)
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 126, "My brother (sister) broke a bottle" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #291, "Johnny on (over) the ocean" (1 text)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, (Joan McCaskill, collector), "Rope-Skipping Games", Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jun 1948), p. 10, "(Johnnie on the ocean)" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, Vance Randolph, "Jump Rope Rhymes From Arkansas" Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer 1953), p. 79, "(Johnny on the ocean, Johnny on the sea)"; "(Johnny on the ocean, Johnny on the sea)" (2 texts); p. 79, "(Minnie Moocher and a ha ha ha)" (1 text, which looks like a mix between "Minnie Moocher (Minny and a Minny and a Ha, Ha, Ha)" and "Johnny on the Ocean")
ADDITIONAL: Richard M. Dorson, _Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States_, University of Chicago Press, 1964, p. 385, "(no title)" (1 short text)
Roud #19067
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Charlie over the Ocean" (lyrics)
File: DoDW385

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