1918 East Broadway

DESCRIPTION: Counting-out rhyme. "The people who live across the way, At 1918 East Broadway Every night They have a fight, And this is what they say:" The rest is from "Ickle Bickle Soda Cracker" or "My Mother and Your Mother (I)"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1980 (Solomon-ZickaryZan)
KEYWORDS: home food fight floatingverses | counting-out
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 73, "1918 East Broadway" (1 text)
Withers-EenieMeenieMinieMo, p. 26, "(My mother and your mother)" (1 text, in which the address is "two-fourteen East Broadway")
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Ickie Bickie Soda Cracker" (lyrcs)
cf. "My Mother and Your Mother (I)" (lyrics)
NOTES [34 words]: This appears to be a floating verse that sometimes joins "Ickie Bickie Soda Cracker" or "My Mother and Your Mother (I)." I'm filing it separately here, but be aware that it occurs in those songs as well.
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File: ZiZa073B

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