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Thread #72705 Message #1400362
Posted By: masato sakurai
05-Feb-05 - 10:32 PM
Thread Name: Origins:Old Man 'Badiah Jumped in the Fire/Obadiah
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old man 'badiah/Jumped in the fire
Old Aunt Mariah, jumped in the fire Fire too hot, jumped in the pot Pot too black, jumped in the crack Crack too shallow, jumped in the tallow Tallow too soft, jumped in the loft Loft too high, jumped in the sky Sky too blue, jumped in canoe Canoe too rotten, jumped in the cotton Cotton so white she stayed there all night!
(2) As a jump-rope rhyme from Roger D. Abrahams, ed., Jump-Rope Rhymes: A Dictionary (University of Texas Press, 1969, pp. 10-11):
Anthy Maria jumped in the fire; The fire was too hot, she jumped in the pot; The pot was too black, she jumped in a crack; The pot was soon over, she jumped in some clover. Clover's too sweet; she kicked up her feet. Feet was soon over, she cried 1, 2, 3, jumped in a tree. The tree was so high she couldn't go higher. 'Long came a breeze, blew her away.