childhood rhymes

[Sam Clements]

A quick search of Newspaper archive cites "one, two-three O'Leary" from 1919 in print.  Didn't look much harder to find anything before.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Geoffrey S. Nathan 
  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
  Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 10:29 PM
  Subject: Re: childhood rhymes


  At 04:22 PM 7/31/2004, Wilson Gray wrote:

    Speaking of girls' games, is anyone else familiar with "One, Two,
    Three, O'Leary" 

    Margaret Winters reports that she learned the 'One, two three O'Leary' version from her mother, which antedates it to the early twenties.  She notes that in NYC people used 'spaldeens', as tennis balls were reserved for the rich kids (like Wilson ;-) )

    Geoff