How Would You Like to Be Me?

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "How would you like to be me? Up in an apple tree? A lump of jelly in my belly. How would you like to be me?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1958 (Folkways 8501, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: jumprope food | tree jelly
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #200, "How would you like to be me?" (1 text)
File: JRR200

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