What's Your Name? (II)

DESCRIPTION: "What's your name, little girl? My name is Alaska. Alaska what, little girl? Alaska [=I'll ask-a] my mommy." "What's your name, little boy? ...Lemmy... Lemmy kiss you." "What's your name? ...Ida... Ida [=I don't] want to." And so with other name and jokes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1971 (NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal)
KEYWORDS: wordplay nonballad campsong
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Gloria Dickens, "Childhood Songs from North Carolina" Vol. XXI, No. 1 (Apr 1973), p. 4, "(What's your name, little girl)" (1 text)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 124, "What's your name little boy? My name is Lemme" (notes only)
Roud #21237
NOTES [105 words]: The two "What's Your Name" items use similar ideas -- so much so that I'd have lumped them if Roud didn't split them -- but the format is slightly different "What's Your Name (I)," Roud #19070, has the form
What's your name? (Something something); ask me again and I'll (something or other).
What's Your Name (II), Roud #21237, always seems to have "little girl" or "little boy" in the first line, and involves a pun:
What's your name, little girl? My name is Ida. Ida what, little girl? Ida want to [=I don't want to].
Roud lumps this with the "Drunkard's Catechism," which is similar in form but perhaps different in intent. - RBW
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File: NCF211WN

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