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Thread #98109   Message #1938632
Posted By: Azizi
16-Jan-07 - 03:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: One day when I was walking
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Am A Funny Dutch Girl
Here's a form of that children's rhyme as found in Roger D. Abrahams Peter Abrahams' "Jump Rope Rhymes: A Dictionary" {published in 1969 for the American Foklore Society by the University of Tennessee Press; Rhyme # 202 (pg. 69)

I AM A FUNNY DUTCH GIRL
I am a funny (pretty) Dutch girl,
As funny (pretty) as can be;
And all the boys around the block
Are crazy after me.
I have a boyfriend named Sammy
He comes from Alabamy
With rings on his nose
And pickles on his toes,
And that's the way my story goes.

-snip-

Category given: usually a hand clap rhyme

Sources given:

Musick HF 7 (1948), 11 {West Virginia}
Abrahmas, KFQ, 8 (1963), 8, {Pennsylvania, 1959), Two variants, one ends with "He gave me some peaches/He gave me some pears", etc.
Abrahams, SFQ, 27 {1963}, 200, 208, {Texas}, Seven variants: one begins "I am a funny bunny", one "My boyfriend's name is Sammy."
Witheres {1964}, 100 {Iowa{. Includes "My boyfriend's name is Michael./He rides on a motorcycle."