Just Like Me

DESCRIPTION: "I went up one pair of stairs. Just like me. There was a monkey. Just like me. I one'd it. I two'd it. I three'd it...." And so on, to "I ate [eight, eighted] it." Or "I went into the house, Just like me, I went upstairs, just..." ending with the monkey
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1844 (Halliwell)
KEYWORDS: animal food playparty nonballad
FOUND IN: US(MA) Ireland
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 51, "I went into the house, -- Just like me" (1 text)
Newell-GamesAndSongsOfAmericanChildren, #86, "Catches" (3 texts, but only the first is this)
Byington/Goldstein-TwoPennyBallads, p. 106, "Just Like Me" (1 text)
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 170, "just Like Me"; "The Old Dead Horse" (2 texts)
ADDITIONAL: Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #87, "(I Went Up One Pair of Stairs)" (1 text)
Roud #20098
NOTES [52 words]: Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes's second text is about a dead horse, not stairs: "I saw an old dead horse. I one it; I saw an old dead horse. I two it...." But the gimmick is the same; I'm sure it belongs here. In fact, it almost looks as if Delamar's two texts are separated portions of the same rhyme. - RBW
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