Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me

DESCRIPTION: Trick question rhyme: "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me Went down to the sea to bathe, Adam and Eve were drowned; which of the three was saved?" When the hearer answers "Pinch me," the speaker gives the hearer a pinch
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: injury wordplay
FOUND IN: Ireland US(MW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 51, "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me Tight" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties," Volume 1, Number 4 (WInter 1951), p. 249, "(Adam and Eve and Pinch-me)" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #86, "(Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me)" (1 text)
Roud #20454
File: KSUC051A

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