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  • #598670
    brotherofurs
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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,

    OR

    #2-.. a richman, poor man , a beggar man, a thief, a doctor, a lawyer,A MERCHANT, A CHIEF

    which one?? *just wondering* 🙂

    #1011889
    brotherofurs
    Participant

    *oops mods can u plz change the title to a tinker a TAILOR instead 0of sailor twice? thanks!

    #1011890
    mustangrider
    Member

    i’ve heard it both ways 🙂

    i guess no one really knows!

    #1011891
    mommamia22
    Participant

    Isn’t it “… An Indian chief”?

    #1011892
    Queen Bee
    Member

    The first. Unless things changed from when I was a kid.

    #1011893
    rebbi1
    Participant

    mommamia22 – you are correct it is Indian Chief. I googled it originally written in 1926 with those words.

    #1011894
    brotherofurs
    Participant

    really?? 😀 i never heard that one .. and i knew emergency didnt really make sense 🙂 but it makes jump rope so much more fun

    #1011895
    brotherofurs
    Participant

    o thanks mods!

    #1011896
    amazingirl97
    Participant

    It’s a merchant, a chief or a merchant at sea, but i never heard of emergency.

    #1011897
    kylbdnr
    Member

    it’s a merchant a chief.

    I was a counselor in a camp and the campers always sang it wrong (emergency)

    #1011898

    Oh my goodness! You mean to tell me it’s NOT emergency??? Wow….that’s what we grew up singing…

    #1011899
    Bar Shattya
    Member

    Ohhhhhh, I thought it was a lamb a sieve

    #1011900
    Health
    Participant

    See my post in -“What do you do?”

    Over there I posted the original rhyme, which is none of the above!

    #1011901
    Health
    Participant

    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.”

    #1011902
    bpt
    Participant

    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.)

    #1011903
    adorable
    Participant

    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

    #1011904
    HLM
    Member

    haha… i always thought it was emergency, but that doesnt make any sense!

    #1011905
    amazingirl97
    Participant

    It’s not emergency its a merchant a chief i dont know where emergency came from

    #1011907
    bpt
    Participant

    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?

    #1011908

    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?

    #1011909
    brotherofurs
    Participant

    never heard of the strawberry shortcake song but what about “Lemon on lime gotta be on time when the school bell rings at..”

    Anyone now that one?? thats what i used to sing a lot

    #1011910
    golden mom
    Member

    How about j j cholov yisroel….

    And 2 on tiMe don’t be late….

    Now I’m showing my age…

    #1011911
    kapusta
    Participant

    Emergency.

    golden mom, I was just thinking about jj cholov yisrael…

    (do you get a welcome btw?)

    *kapusta*

    #1011912

    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?

    #1011913
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    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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