Did You Ever, Ever, Ever

DESCRIPTION: "Did you ever, ever, ever In your leaf, life, loaf, See the deevil, divil, dovol, Kiss his weef, wife, woaf? No I never, never, never In my leaf, life, loaf, Saw the deevil, divil, dovol, Kiss his weef, wife, woaf."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1880 (McCollum and Porter)
KEYWORDS: devil nonballad jumprope
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag, p. 329, "Did You Ever, Ever, Ever" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame 139, "Have You Ever Ever Ever?" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #102, "Did you ẽ-va, ī-va, ō-va" (1 text)
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, p. 67, "(Did you ever ever ever)" (1 fragment)
JournalOfAmericanFolklore, Catharine Ann McCollum and Kenneth Wiggins Porter, "Winter Evenings in Iowa, 1873-1880," Vol. LVI, No. 220 (Apr 1943), p. 103 ("Did you ever ever ever") (1 fragment)
Roud #4253 and 18989
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh, Mister Revel" (theme)
File: San329A

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