The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #115045   Message #2460160
Posted By: Azizi
08-Oct-08 - 09:57 AM
Thread Name: Not Last Night But The Night Before-rhyme
Subject: RE: Not Last Night ButThe Night Before-rhyme
Clarification:

I wrote "post 1980s {?}" because it appears that the racialized versions of "I Love Coffee I Love Tea" are from the 1980s on. They might even be from the 1990s on. As one small sample, my daughter doesn't remember her or her friends using any racial referents in this version of "I Love Coffee I Love Tea" that they did handclaps to in the mid to late 1980s.

Also, it should be noted that "standard" versions of "I Love Coffee I Love Tea" are usually categorized in books and on the Internet as jump rope rhymes.

As a matter of fact, the pattern for the performance activity of many children's rhymes is from jump rope rhyme to handclap rhyme and not vice versa.