Apples, Peaches, Creamery Butter

DESCRIPTION: "Apples, peaches, creamery butter, Tell be the name of your true lover. A, B, C, D...." (continue until a jumper misses, then name a boy and a girl, and start to ask questions such as "How many children are you going to have)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1948 (McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks)
KEYWORDS: nonballad playparty courting food
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks, p. 108, "(Apples, Peaches, Creamery Butter)" (2 texts)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 52, "Creamery Butter" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #456, "Peaches, plums, pumpkin butter"; "Pommelty, pommelty, apple butter" (2 text)
MidwestFolklore, Vance Randolph, "Jump Rope Rhymes From Arkansas" Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer 1953), p. 82, "(Pummelty, pommelty, apple butter)"; p. 84, "(Peaches, plums, pumpkin butter)" (2 texts)
File: McIn108B

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