Cry, Baby, Cry

DESCRIPTION: "Cry, baby, cry, (Stick/put) your finger [or "a needle"] in your eye, And tell your mother It wasn't I/eye."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1955 (List-SingingAboutIt-FolkSongsInSouthernIndiana)
KEYWORDS: playparty injury
FOUND IN: Britain US(MW,So) New Zealand Ireland
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren, p. 132, (Cry, baby cry)" (1 text)
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 50, "Cry, baby, cry" (1 text)
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 119, "(Cry, baby, cry)" (1 text)
List-SingingAboutIt-FolkSongsInSouthernIndiana, pp. 84-85, "Crybaby, Crybaby" (2 short texts, 2 tunes)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 83, "Cry, Baby, Cry" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #55, "(Cry, baby, cry)" (1 text)
Roud #16327
File: SuSm132A

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