Dancing Dolly Had No Sense

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme. "Dancing Dolly has no sense, She bought some eggs/a fiddle for fourteen pence/59 cents, The eggs went bad, the dolly went mad, A, B, C, D, E...." Or, "The only tune that she could play, Was, Sally, get out of the donkey's way."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Douglas, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: playparty food money jumprope dancing music fiddle | doll
FOUND IN: New Zealand US(So) Ireland
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren, p. 108, "(Dancing Dolly)" (2 texts)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 64, "Dancing Dolly" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #95, "Dancing Dolly had no sense" (1 text)
Brady-AllInAllIn. p. 51, "(When I was young)" (1 text, 1 tune); p. 64, "Dolly, Dolly had no sense" (1 text)
Roud #18997 and 19306
File: SuSm108D

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