Brow-bender

DESCRIPTION: "Brow-bender, Eye-winker, Nose-dropper, Mouth-eater, Chin-chopper, Tickle, tickle." Mother's rhyme used to teach babies about body parts. Also used as a tickling rhyme. Reportedly it has developed pub and rugby versions
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1971 (Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore)
KEYWORDS: mother nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West)) US(MW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 121, "(Eye-winker, Tom tinker, Nose dropper....)" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties," Volume 1, Number 4 (WInter 1951), p. 252, "(Eye-winker)" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Tony Deane and Tony Shaw _The Folklore of Cornwall_, B. T. Batsford, 1975, p. 49, "(Brow-bender)" (1 short text)
File: SeSh049A

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