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Thread #20909 Message #4234909
Posted By: Lighter
25-Jan-26 - 10:17 AM
Thread Name: Children's rhymes and playground songs
Subject: RE: Children's rhymes and playground songs
From Mudcat collection of jump-rope rhymes:
On the mountain stands a lady. Who she is, I don't know. All she wants is gold and silver. All she wants is ice cream cones. So jump in, my darling. So jump out, my baby.
There's a scene in the 1949 film noir "Mr. Soft Touch" in which three little girls are playing jump rope. They sing the following:
On the [inaudible, possibly followed by "there"] stands a lady, Who she is, I do not know. All she wants is gold and silver, All she wears is a crown of snow.
I don't find anything else similar on line.
"Ice cream cone" is clearly (to me, anyway) a rationalization of "crown of snow," a phrase often applied to snow-capped peaks.
A "lady" wearing only a "crown of snow" is quite an image.