Adam and Eve and Pinch Me Tight

[Margaret Lee]

My children and their friends learned this as a jump rope chant:

"Engine, engine number nine,
Going down Chicago line
If the train should jump the track,
Do you want your money back?"

Then it would continue with the jumper jumping to "Yes, no, maybe so" (to answer  the question, which is the answer that the jumper finally missed on).

"Engine number nine,
Stick your head in turpentine.
Turpentine make it shine
Engine number nine."

...etc., etc.


--Ben Zimmer


Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote:


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