Donald Duck

DESCRIPTION: "Donald Duck is a one-legged, one-legged, one-legged duck" (sung while hopping on one foot). Then "...is a two.legged duck" (while hopping on two feet), then "three-legged" (add a hand), then four, concluding "Donald Duck is a duck"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1947 (McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad bird jumprope | Donald Duck leg foot counting
FOUND IN: US(MW,Ro,So)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks, p. 104, "(Donald Duck is a one-legged, one-legged, one-legged duck") (1 text)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 56, "Donald Duck" (1 text)
Ainsworth-JumpRopeVerses, #49, "(Donald Duck is a one-legged, one-legged, one-legged duck)"; #74, "(Donald Duck is a one-legged, one-legged, one-legged duck)"; #149, "(Little Orphan Annie goes one foot, one foot)" (3 texts)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #111, "Donald Duck is a one-legged, one-legged, one-legged duck"; #317, "Little Orphan Annie (teddy bear) goes one foot, one foot"; #329, "Little white rabbit, hop on one foot, one foot" (3 tests)
Roud #19311 and 19283
NOTES [44 words]: Roud splits the "Donald Duck" and "Little Orphan Annie" versions of this (the former is #19311, the latter #19283), but the form is so close that I think they have to be regarded as one. Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes has entries for both but cross-references them.. - RBW
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File: McIn104A

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