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Big Daddy

Something my grand-dad used to say was:

   Once upon a time a goose drank wine and a 
   monkey chewed tobacco on the street car line.

Thanks to the net, I now know that it was a jump-rope rhyme from around 1900. Big Daddy was born in 1911.

Dave Johnson in General • 🕒 02:56PM Jul 23, 2002

Tags: family

Comments:

This rhyme has been in my head for days, I forgot the last part of the rhyme and it was driving me crazy. I remember jumping rope to it (60 years ago) but we said, "they all went to heaven in a little row boat". That was really a fun time. Thanks for the last part of the rhyme.

Posted by Ora Brown on February 14, 2010 at 12:17 PM EST #

The streetcar broke, the monkey got choked and they all went to Heaven in a little row boat

Posted by Renae Walmsley on June 02, 2010 at 03:58 PM EDT #