What's Your Name? (I)

DESCRIPTION: "What's your name? Puddin' shane. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same." "What's your name? Puddin' pie. Ask me again and I'll make you cry." "What's...? Tom Brown. Ask me again and I'll knock you down.""What's...? Butter and tame."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1970 (Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore)
KEYWORDS: wordplay nonballad food
FOUND IN: US(MW,So) Britain Ireland
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 120, "(What's Your Name)" ("Smart-Aleck" Rhymes) (1 text)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 79, "John Brown"; p. 82, "Buster Brown,""Puddin-n-tane," "Santa Claus"; p. 53, "Hickory Ben Double" (5 texts)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #596, "What's your name?" (1 text)
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 7, "What's your name?" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties," Volume 1, Number 4 (WInter 1951), p. 256, "(What's Your Name?)" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #66, "(What's your name)" (1 text); cf. #106, "(What's Your Name)"
Ewan MacColl, _Journeyman: An Autobiography_, re-edited and with an introduction by Peggy Seeger, 1990; revised edition, Manchester University Press, 2009, p. 87, "(no title, but the character is named Baldy Bane)" (1 fragment)
Roud #19070
NOTES [87 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]. - RBW
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