Possibly related: a snippet from Louisville, Kentucky's Courier-Journal, December 8th, 1939, Section 3, p. 1 (link):

From L. B. C. at Bowling Green, who revived the old "Chicken In the Bread Tray" series, comes another old-timer of unknown origin. "I have never seen this in print," she writes, "but an old white nursemaid at Lexington used to recite it to the children in a sing-song monotone as she patted her foot:

The old woman licked the ladle,
From the kitchen to the table,
Up the chimney, down the gutter.
Piece o' bread and pound o' butter,
Sift'd the meal, give her the husk,
Boil'd the meat, give her the bone,
Broke her leg and sent her home.
Jubber this and jubber that,
Jubber all 'round the kettle and vat.