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Thread #76264 Message #1349465
Posted By: masato sakurai
06-Dec-04 - 09:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: There came two Spaniards just from Spain
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'There came two Spaniards just from Spai
According to Roger D. Abrahams' Jump-Rope Rhymes: A Dictionary (University of Texas Press, 1969, p. 190), this rhyme was collected by Norman Douglas in his London Street Games (1916). There's a variant "There came six Jews from Juda Spain" in Patricia Evans' Rimbles (1961) [from California].