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at the end of this jump rope song, does it go
#1- ..a richman, poor man , a beggar man, a thief, a doctor, a lawyer, EMERGENCY,
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#2-.. a richman, poor man , a beggar man, a thief, a doctor, a lawyer,A MERCHANT, A CHIEF
which one?? *just wondering* 🙂
i’ve heard it both ways 🙂
i guess no one really knows!
Isn’t it “… An Indian chief”?
The first. Unless things changed from when I was a kid.
mommamia22 – you are correct it is Indian Chief. I googled it originally written in 1926 with those words.
It’s a merchant, a chief or a merchant at sea, but i never heard of emergency.
it’s a merchant a chief.
I was a counselor in a camp and the campers always sang it wrong (emergency)
Oh my goodness! You mean to tell me it’s NOT emergency??? Wow….that’s what we grew up singing…
Ohhhhhh, I thought it was a lamb a sieve
See my post in -“What do you do?”
Over there I posted the original rhyme, which is none of the above!
From a literary blog:
“Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief;
Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief.
A variant of the last was “Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief.”
Its “emergency”. So says the kid’s in my bungalow colony assure me.
On the topic of jump rope, does anyone still use the “strawberry shortcake” song? That was THE song of choice when I was a kid (but then again, I lived on a block with goyim, so maybe I’m thinking of a different world.)
it is not emergency but I think all the kids just sing it that way but its not right- it makes no sense (not that anything else in the world makes sense but ok) I think its a merchant a chief
haha… i always thought it was emergency, but that doesnt make any sense!
It’s not emergency its a merchant a chief i dont know where emergency came from
Amazing.. you probably haven’t jumped rope in 5 years, Miss HS bound, soon-to-be Sem bound, only have time to study and get A++ on all subjects.
If the kids in my colony say its emergency, you can take that to the bank!
And does not anyone know (or care to comment on) the strawberry shortcake song? Or are you all that young, that you think its just a stationary charachter? (or that old, that you think its something you eat)
Oomis, where are you when I need your help?
Wolf? What about you? Surely you know what I’m talking about?
ok ok i’m really that old 🙂 “strawberry short cake, cream on top tell me the name of your sweet heart….” that the song you’re referring to?
How about j j cholov yisroel….
And 2 on tiMe don’t be late….
Now I’m showing my age…
Emergency.
golden mom, I was just thinking about jj cholov yisrael…
(do you get a welcome btw?)
Very random bump, but I didn’t want to start a new topic if we had one already…
Ok so who made up the jump rope song “JJ chalav Yisrael”- it couldn’t have just randomly appeared out of the blue… Someone must have started it!! I’m a 90s kid and that was THE jump rope chant- and everyone knew it, camp, shul, school- it was everywhere. So ‘fess up. Who started it?
It’s not a song. It’s a rhyme in which a girl counts seeds to find out who she’ll marry.
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