Hi there

I just dropped in to look up a jump rope rhyme for my daughter, and spotted this...

I was in Southeastern Massachusetts when I learned this rhyme on the playground sometime in the mid 1960s. The way I learned it was close to the way Joe Offer had it:

Three, six, nine, the goose drank wine
The monkey threw tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat (clap, clap)

with the second part more or less as LadyJean had it, but no lisping please:

My mother told me
If I was goodie
That she would buy me
A rubber dollie.
My auntie told her
I kissed a soldier
Now she won't buy me
A rubber dollie!


The reggae group UB40 makes reference to this rhyme in the "Tribute" section of "Red, Red Wine". It includes "The line broke, the monkey got choked" but then continues with the very un-60s "Burn bad ganja on his little rowing boat"!

mamabear