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The Butcher's Shop

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Performer: Children
Place Collected: Coates
Date collected: 1911 (10 Apr)
Collector: Sharp, Cecil
Roud Number: 12979

This singing game often merged with other singing games with borrowed verses. It has been collected occasionally as Hippity Hop to the Barber’s Shop or Green Grow the Rashes and was performed until recently in many a playground.

Notes by Gwilym Davies 6 May 2015