What Goes Up Must Come Down

DESCRIPTION: Game played after throwing some object in the air: "What goes up must come down, Either on heads or on the ground, Mary ate jam, Mary ate jelly, Mary soon had a pain in the belly."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (MidwestFolklore)
KEYWORDS: game nonballad food
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties," Volume 1, Number 4 (WInter 1951), p. 256, "(What goes up must come down)" (1 text)
File: MWF1256

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