GIddy Giddy Gout

DESCRIPTION: Teasing game. "Giddy giddy gout, You're shirt's hanging out. Five miles in, And ten miles out." Or "Little Devil Doubt, If you don't give me money, I'll sweep you all out...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1972 (Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren)
KEYWORDS: playparty clothes
FOUND IN: New Zealand Ireland
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren, p. 125, "(Giddy giddy gout)" (1 text)
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 9, "Dicky, Dicky, Dout" (1 text)
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, pp. 17-18, "(Here come I, Little Devil Doubt)" (1 short text)
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties," Volume 1, Number 4 (WInter 1951), p. 256, "(Giddy, giddy, gout)" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #160, "(Dicky, Dicky Dout)" (1 text)
Roud #12747
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Here Come I, Beelzebub" (used in the same Mumming plays as some versions of this)
NOTES [33 words]: Roud includes a very large family in his #12747; I am by no means sure they are all one item. Probably it needs further investigation. Some are from mummers' performances, but this clearly isn't! - RBW
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File: SuSM125

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