Bake a Pudding, Bake a Pie

DESCRIPTION: Skipping game. "Bake a pudding, bake a pie, Did you ever tell a lie? Yes you did, I know you did, You broke your mother's teapot lid. O-U-T spells out, And out you must go, Right in the middle Of the deep blue sea."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (Withers-EenieMeenieMinieMo)
KEYWORDS: playparty food lie
FOUND IN: New Zealand
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren, p. 104, "(Bake a pudding)" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #30, "Bake a pudding" (1 text)
Withers-EenieMeenieMinieMo, p. 33, "(As I went up the apple tree)" (1 text, consisting of the first two lines of "As I Climbed Up the Apple Tree" followed by the first six lines of "Bake a Pudding, Bake a Pie")
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "One Two Three Four, Mary at the Cottage Door" ("O-U-T spells out" lyric) and references there
File: SuSm104C

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