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Thread #4300   Message #2192658
Posted By: Azizi
13-Nov-07 - 09:25 AM
Thread Name: Children's Street Songs
Subject: RE: Children's Street Songs
Guest Jasmine, I've heard and read a number of versions of the rhyme you posted. I'm not sure if I've posted these before, but in any event, here's some examples from my website: Cocojams

APPLES ON A STICK {Version #1}
Apples on a the stick
make me sick.
Make my heart go
Two forty six
Not because I'm dirty
Not because I'm clean
Not because I kissed a boy
Behind a magazine.
-multiple sources, including girls ages 7-10 years; Millview Acres Housing Development (Clairton, PA) 2002; collected by Azizi Powell, 2002; www.cocojams.com

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APPLES ON A STICK {Version #2}
Apple on a stick makes me sick makes my heart beat 2-46 not because you're dirty not because you're clean not because you kissed the boy behind the magazine hey girls you wanna have some fun cause here come a lady with a big fat bum she can wibble she can wobble she can even do the splits but i bet ya i bet ya she can't do this close your eyes and count to ten if you muck it up you're a big fat hen. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 (if you didn't muck up) we didn't muck it up so that's the end. we're best friends. (if you did muck up) we mucked up and that's the end so start again cause we're not best friends.
-Allie; 2/15/2007 ; www.cocojams.com

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In some examples, "makes my heart go 246" or "makes my heart beat"
2-4-6 is also given as "makes my tummy go"

Also, Jasmine, instead of your line "with a finger up his bum", I've seen the line "here comes a lady with a big fat bum" or "here comes a boy with his pants undone".

Here's one ending that I've seen for this jump rope rhyme:

A lady on one foot one foot one foot a lady on two foot two foot two foot a lady on three foot three foot three foot a lady on four foot four foot four foot a lady on five foot five foot five foot a lady on six foot six foot six foot a lady no foot no foot no foot.
-De'Azia, age 8, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 3/24/2006 www.cocojams.com


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I remember doing that "Lady With One Foot" rhyme from my childhood in New Jersey {USA} in the 1950s.