I Won't Go to Macy's Any More

DESCRIPTION: "I won't/don't go to school/Granny's/Macy's any more, more, more, There's a big fat teacher/copper/policeman at the door, door, door" who takes me by the hair/collar and sits me in a chair/makes me pay a dollar...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1935 (Howard)
KEYWORDS: playparty hair police
FOUND IN: Britain(England(North,South)) US(MA,SE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame, p. 478, ("I'm not going to school any more, more, more") (2 texts)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #279, "I won't go to Macy's anymore, more, more" (1 text)
JournalOfAmericanFolklore, Dorothy Mills Howard, "The Rhythms of Ball-Bouncing and Ball-Bouncing Rhymes," Vol. LXII, No. 244 (Apr 1949), #6 p. 168 ("I won't go to Macy's any more, more, more") (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Mabel Hillery, Janie Hunter and her grandchildren, "I Want To Go To Mexico" (on JohnsIsland1)
NOTES [46 words]: Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame has "not going to school" as a clapping game and separates it on that basis from a ball-bounce "don't go to Grannie's" which derives from "I won't go to Macy's." Macy's, as Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame notes, is a famous department store in New York City. - BS
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