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A skipping rhyme (occasionally skipping-rope rhyme or jump-rope rhyme), is a rhyme chanted by children while skipping. Such rhymes have been recorded in all cultures where skipping is played. Examples of English-language rhymes have been found going back to at least the 17th century. Like most folklore, skipping rhymes tend to be found in many different variations. ==Rhymes from the 1940s == The following are rhymes from West Los Angeles, California. Two girls with a long rope stood about apart and turned the rope as other children took turns jumping. If one were not a good jumper, one would be an 'Ever-Laster,' that is, one would perpetually turn the rope. When it was a child's turn to jump, she would enter as the rope turned, and jump to the rhyme until she missed. Then she would become a rope-turner, and the next child in line would take her place. 1.:Charlie Chaplin went to France :To teach the ladies how to dance. :First the heel, then the toe, :Then the splits, and around you go! :Salute to the Captain, :Bow to the Queen, :And turn your back on the Nazi submarine! In the Charlie Chaplin rhyme, the child jumping had to follow directions as the rope was turning: touching the heel of one foot on the ground; touching the toe of the same foot on the ground; doing a (short) split of the feet, turning around, saluting, bowing, and jumping out from the turning rope on the last line. This rhyme, c. 1942, reflects children's awareness of World War II (The Queen to whom we bowed was the mother of the present Queen of England). An Australian version of the Charlie Chaplin Skipping Song, as sung at Salisbury Primary School in Brisbane, Australia in the mid 1950s, is as follows: :Charlie Chaplin went to France, :To teach the ladies how to dance, :First he did the Rumba, :Then he did the twist, :Then he did the Highland Fling, :And then he did the splits. There's also "Betty Grable went to France,/To teach the soldiers how to dance." (The rest is the same.) 2.:All in together, birds of a feather: :January, February, March, April, May, etc. (each child had to jump in during the month they were born). 3.:Ice cream soda, Delaware Punch, :Tell me the name of my honey-bunch. :A, B, C, etc. :. . . And don't forget the RED HOT PEPPERS (and the turners would turn the rope as fast as they could). In Dublin, Ireland, the visits of inspectors known as "Glimmer men" to private houses to enforce regulations to prevent the use of coal gas in restricted hours during the Emergency gave rise to: :Keep it boiling on the glimmer, if you don't you get no dinner. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skipping-rope rhyme」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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