Black-currant, Red-currant (Boys' Names)

Black-currant--red-currant--raspberry tart: / Tell me the name of your sweetheart…

Black-currant--red-currant--raspberry tart:
Tell me the name of your sweetheart,

How to play

Then go through the alphabet, a skip with each letter. When you have found the sweetheart's name, go on to find out when you will be married, how many rings, how many brooches, what clothes, what carriage, how many kisses, what house and how many children, all in the same way.

Where this rhyme comes from

Printed: 1916
Where: London

We have copied these words exactly as they were printed in 1916, spelling and all. The book marks it as a skipping rhyme.

Douglas: "if this game were ever properly finished, it would take at least a month's hard skipping."

Source: Norman Douglas, London Street Games (London: The St. Catherine Press, 1916) (public domain).

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