Thanks very much Purple Foxx and JC!

I appreciate your comments. I will search for the resources you mentioned, and I'm certain that this information will be helpful to others too.

The Opies are the only resource mentioned above that I am familiar with. I appreciate their work, but I believe we have to carry it further. I believe those interested in the preservation, analysis, and socio-educational {if that is a term} use of children's rhymes must use collection strategies such as JC mentioned that try to get around children's self-censorship. IMO, collectors must also recognize their own tendency to disregard those children's rhymes that they don't like or they aren't interested in.

My primary area of interest [now] is contemporary {1950-to date] English language children's rhymes [other than nursery rhymes] that mention violence or have performance activity that includes hitting, pinching, slapping [other than handclaps], etc. I am also interested in English language children's 'street' rhymes that mention race/ethnicity, and romance. In addition to these rhymes, I collect other taunts and comebacks, and rhymes I categorize "just for fun". Since I've been collecting children's rhymes since 1996, mostly through adult recollections on the Internet I've read a number of 'nasty' children's rhymes and children's rhymes with profanity. While those rhymes are usually not in my areas of interests, I don't act like they don't exist.

For those who are interested, Besides numerous Mudcat threads on children's rhymes and my website www.cocojams.com, here's a listing of some Internet resources on rhymes that I have found interesting:

http://blog.oftheoctopuses.com/000518.php

[a large collection of children's rhymes sometimes with commentary from what appears to be pre-teen, teen, and adult contributors]

http://www.milkmilklemonade.com/ [a small selection of bawldy children's rhymes from what seems to be adult recollections]

http://www.streetplay.com/discus/ [a collection of rhymes that appears to have mostly been made in 2000 or so from mostly adult recollection]

In addition, http://www.jonbanjo.com/forum/forumlist.php {The Annexe} had a thread on children's rhymes. My computer skills being what they are, I can't seem to find that thread on The Annexe, but I bet it's still there. I remember that the original thread was lost in some technical glitch, but I started another thread on that site that had a number of examples and commentary about adult recollections of English language childrens' rhymes from England, Wales, Australia, and the USA.

I hope that this list helps others.

BTW, JC-since you are a guest, I can't contact you directly about this subject. Please consider joining Mudcat! And/or, please contact me through my website mentioned above. Thanks.