April Fool is Gone and Past
DESCRIPTION: Fullest version: "April Fool's Day is past, And you're the April Fool at last, Four farthings make a penny, And you're a bigger fool than any." This version is said after noon; before noon, it's "Fool, fool, April fool, You learn nought going to school"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad money
FOUND IN: New Zealand US(MW) Ireland
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren, p. 62, "(April Fool's Day is past)" (1 text)
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore,, p. 122, "(April fool is coming on)" "(April fool is past)" (2 short texts)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #358, p. 186,, and note 26 "(Fool, fool, April fool)" and "(April-fool time's past and gone)"
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 19, "(April fool is gone past)" (1 text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 42, "(April Fool is dead and gone)" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties," Volume 1, Number 4 (WInter 1951), p. 258, "(April-fool is comin')/(April-fool is past)" (2 fragments, which may or may not be separate)
ADDITIONAL: Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #147-148, "(Fool, fool, April fool)," "(April fool's gone past)" (2 texts)
Roud #20438
File: SuSm062
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