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Thread #115155   Message #2462340
Posted By: Azizi
10-Oct-08 - 02:42 PM
Thread Name: Songs About Money
Subject: RE: Songs About Money
Here's a jump rope rhyme"


(Start swinging rope back and forth without doing a full turn) Blue Bells Taco Shells eevy ivy ooover (now regular jump rope) i went down town to see james (or charlie) brown he gave me a nickle to buy me a pickle the pickle was sour he gave me a flower the flower was dead and this is what he said, he said: johnney jump on one foot one foot one foot, johnney jump on two feet, two feet, two feet, johnney jump on three feet, three feet, three feet, johnney jump on four feet four feet four feet johnney jump on FIVE FEET! (try to touch all hands and butt to the ground in one jump. everybody messed up here)
-Talia G.; 12/5/2006; http://www.cocojams.com/handclap_rhymes.htm

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Does anyone remember any other "nickel to buy a pickle" rhymes?
If so, I'd appreciate it if you would post them here or pm me since I'm very interested in collecting versions of that "family" of children's rhymes.