Does anyone know if anyone has ever gathered American jump-rope rhymes and studied them? I have talked to some people my age from different areas and we often knew the same rhymes but had different words, and sometimes learned of completely new rhymes from each other.
It’d be interesting to study them and discover their origins and evolutions, and note any regional groups of similarities. It’s been done with nursery rhymes 
Do you remember any? I remember some, and it seems like lots had to do with having babies, or separating/differentiating boys from girls. And of course, counting how many jumps.
Aleatha, it turns out there has been some work done on jump-rope rhymes (although most of the papers I found in my cursory search were over 30 years old). If you are interested in looking, you can go over to JSTOR (using your handy-dandy BYU access) and search for jump rope rhymes.
There is some fun stuff in there. I do enjoy folk-lore studies (I briefly, for like a day, considered it for my graduate work).
-ARS.
I remember “Cinderella, Dressed in Yellow (or Yella)”!
It went like this:
Cinderella, dressed in yella
Went upstairs to kiss her fella
Made a mistake and kissed a snake
How many doctors did it take?
1. 2, …….