Milk, Milk, Lemonade
Mark A. Mandel
mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Thu Mar 11 01:09:36 UTC 2004
I can't figure out what was posted by Sam and what by Barry. My memory
-- childhood in 1950's -- is only of a rhyme, with no remembered
pointing or other reference:
What's your trade?
Lemonade.
Around the corner ice cream's made.
"Trade" isn't common now in the sense of 'business; line of work', and
I'd be surprised to hear it productively from a child or teenager. Was
it current even then? Or does it indicate a possible earlier origin for
this rhyme in various forms?
-- Mark A. Mandel
Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
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