There Was an Old Woman and Her Name Was Pat

DESCRIPTION: Rope-skipping game. "There was an old woman And her name was Pat, And when she died, she died like that. They put her in a coffin, And she fell through the bottom, Just like that. They put her in a bed, And she bumped her head, Just like that"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1972 (Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren)
KEYWORDS: playparty death
FOUND IN: New Zealand
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren, p. 106, "(There was an old woman)" (1 texts)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #275, "I went upstairs to make my bed" (1 text, which doesn't look much like the Sutton-Smith words, but Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes lumps them); #558, "There was an old woman And her name was Pat" (1 text)
File: SuSm106A

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