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i All around the kitchen, cocky doodle doodle doo3 (2)
2 Now, stop right still, cocky doodle doodle doo,
Put your hand on your hip, cocky doodle doodle doo, Let your right foot * slip, cocky doodle doodle doo, Then do it like this, cocky doodle doodle doo. (2)
3 All around the kitchen, cocky doodle doodle doo3 (2)
4 Now, stop right still, cocky doodle doodle doo,
Put your hand on your hip, cocky doodle doodle doo, Let your right foot * slip, cocky doodle doodle doo, Then do it like this, cocky doodle doodle doo.
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KITTY, KITTY CASKET
/#. No. 8 8. See previous song. See Ne, p. 168.
"Kitty, Kitty Casket" is a drop-the-handkerchief play song which seems to combine parts of two ring-games, "Itisket Itasket" and "Lost My Handkerchief." In east Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi we have heard Negro school children sing:
Lost my handkerchief yesterday,
I found it todayy I found it today,
It was all full oy mud and I tossed it away ;
/ tossed it away, any I tossed it away.
"Tossed it away" is the signal for the player with the handkerchief to drop it behind a child in the ring. "Throwed" and "dashed" are preferred by some children. An east Texas group sings,
It was all muddied uf and I dashed it away.
Dish-ma, dash-ma, dish-ma, dash-ma, dish-ma, dash-ma, etc,
the chant continuing until the chase is well under way.
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