Paddy on the Railway (I)

DESCRIPTION: "Paddy on the railway, Picking up stones; Along came an engine And broke Paddy's bones." "O, said Paddy, That's not fair. O, said the engineman, You shouldna have been there."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (Opie)
KEYWORDS: train injury jumprope
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland) New Zealand Ireland
REFERENCES (10 citations):
Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren, "(Paddy on the railway)" (1 text); p. 109, "(Polly on the railway)" (1 text)
Montgomerie/Montgomerie-ScottishNurseryRhymes 151, "(Paddy on the railway)" (1 text)
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 129, "Sitting on the railroad, picking up stones" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #460, "Piggy on the railway, picking up stones" (1 text)
Brady-AllInAllIn, pp. 11-12, "Paddy on the Railway" (1 text plus an extra verse, 1 tune)
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 79, "Piggy on the railway" (1 text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 22, "(Paddy on the railroad)" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Iona and Peter Opie, _Children's Games in Street and Playground_, oxford, 1969, 1984, p. 37, "(Paddy on the Railway)"
Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #46, "(Piggy on the Railway)" (1 text)
J. C. Reid, _A Book of New Zealand_ (Collins National Anthologies), Collins, 1964, p. 333, "Children's Games" ("Paddy on the Railway") (1 text)
Roud #13611
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Teddy on the Railway
NOTES [26 words]: The Opies in Children's Games classify this among the counting rhymes. It doesn't sound like it to me, but certainly it is primarily a children's rhyme. - RBW
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File: MSNR151

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