How Old Will You Be When You Marry?

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope rhyme for telling fortunes: "How old will you be when you marry? 11, 12, 13, 14, 15...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1980 (Solomon-ZickaryZan)
KEYWORDS: marriage questions jumprope
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 47, "(How old will you be when you marry?)" (1 text, under "Telling Fortunes")
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "What Kind of Evening Gown Will You Marry In?" and references there
NOTES [38 words]: This is one of a sequence of fortune-telling jump rope rhymes that begin with "What Kind of Evening Gown..."; see that entry for the full sequence. All of them are filed as separate entries because they can also circulate separately.
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File: ZiZa047B

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