Skip Rope Games

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When you were jumping rope in the schoolyard or playground as a child, you probably didn’t know that rope games have roots in ancient rituals and have thrived in variation throughout the world. Here are thirty-three American games ranging from counting songs to rhyming songs to miming songs, complete with diagrams, instructions and lyrics.

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101	Here Comes Teacher	n/a	0:31
102	Blue Bells, Cockle Shells	n/a	0:58
103	Mabel, Mabel	n/a	0:20
104	Rock-A-Bye Baby	n/a	0:19
105	My Mother and Your Mother	n/a	0:28
106	Over in the Meadow	n/a	0:36
107	Fisherman	n/a	0:17
108	Cinderella	n/a	0:24
109	Grades	n/a	0:25
110	Sally Ate a Pickle	n/a	0:19
111	Mother Sent Me to the Store	n/a	0:28
112	Apples, Peaches, Creamery Butter	n/a	0:33
113	Bubble Gum	n/a	0:16
114	All Good Children Go to Heaven	n/a	0:26
115	Peel That Orange	n/a	0:25
116	Bow-Legged Dutchman	n/a	0:30
201	Twenty-Four Robbers	n/a	1:00
202	Imitation	n/a	0:18
203	Benjamin Franklin	n/a	0:21
204	Fudge	n/a	0:29
205	Gypsy, Gypsy	n/a	0:54
206	Mother, Mother, I Am Ill	n/a	0:30
207	Arithmetic Lesson	n/a	0:51
208	Donald Duck	n/a	0:27
209	Skip to My Lou	n/a	1:02
210	The Clock	n/a	0:22
211	Teddy Bear	n/a	0:30
212	Ring the Dishrag	n/a	0:15
213	Sally Over the Water	n/a	0:35
214	Irish	n/a	0:12
215	Eggbeater	n/a	0:18
216	Grace, Grace	n/a	0:29

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