Adam and Eve and Pinch Me Tight

[Dan Goodman]

Date:    Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:55:35 -0500
From:    bapopik at AOL.COM
Subject: West Virginia Folklore (1950s),
          especially children's rhymes (Liar Liar, 1958)

WEST VIRGINIA FOLKLORE, Summer 1952, vol. II. no. 4
Pg. 13:
Finger Games

Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me-Tight
Went down to the river to see the fight.
Adam and Eve got home that night
And who was left to see the fight?

(When child answers "Pinch Me Tight" the other child pinches him.)

In 1921, Penguin published A. E. Coppard's story collection _Adam and
Eve and Pinch Me_, which included "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me".  The
story presumably appeared in a magazine some time earlier.

Looking it up, I also found Ruth Rendell's novel _Adam and Eve and Pinch
Me_, published in 2001.


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