ID: 364
Date: 1920 - 2006
Title: All in together girls
Gender: Female 
Classification: Skipping 
Rhyme: 

All in together, girls,
This fine weather, girls.
When it's your birthday, 
Please jump out.
(Please run in.)
Jan, Feb..December.

(Northland, 1960s; Auckland, 1960s; Rotorua, 1990s; Auckland, 1990s; Kaitaia, 1990s; Whakatane, 2000: Christchurch, 2006)

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All, all, all in together, 
When it is your birthday,
Please jump out, 
Jan..Dec.

(Auckland, 2004)

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All in together, girls,
Just like the weather, girls.
Please jump in 
When your birthday calls.
Jan, Feb..

(NZ, 1980s)

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All, all, all in together,
When is your birthday, 
Please jump out.
Jan, Feb..

(Kamo, 2000; Auckland, 2004)

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All in together, girls,
Never mind the weather, girls.
There's a lad around the corner.
Got his eye on Alice Horner.

(NZ ex UK, 1940s)

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All in together,
Never mind the weather.
I spy Jack, peeping through a crack.
1,2,3 busy, busy bee.
19,20, leave the rope empty.

(Christchurch, 2001)

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All in together,
This fine weather,
Trip stays out,
And the last pepper.
1,2,3, busy, busy bee,
19, 20,  leave the rope empty.

(1920-1950 (Sutton-Smith, 1959:75))

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All in together,
This fine weather,
I saw a peacock,
Sitting on the window.
Fish, bang, fire, out.

(1920-1950 (Sutton-Smith, 1959:75))

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Background Info: Group skipping rhyme.
Combining jump in and out versions - speed up rope for months of the year. The last player left in must endure 'Pepper' by herself. (Sutton Smith, 1959:75)

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Ethel Beed recalls from her Sydney childhood, 1911- 1914, the group skipping game:

All in together, this cold weather,
I saw Peter, hanging out the window,
Bush(?) bang, fire.

On the word 'fire', all skippers had to leave the rope with the skipper who stops the rope turning having to take an end. 
("Play and Folklore", Issue 5, 1983:12)

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Variations: Turner, 1978:11:

All in together girls,
This fine weather girls,
I saw a nanny goat,
Putting on a petticoat,
Push, bang, fire.

(Sydney, 1956)

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Opie, 1997:282-286, records versions of this popular calling-in game involving large numbers running in and out of the turning rope. Those that trip or are last out take turns as rope-turners. 

All in together, girls,
Never mind the weather, girls,
When I count twenty,
The rope must be empty.
Five, ten, fifteen, twenty.

All in together,
All sorts of weather,
I saw a pig's tail,
Hanging out the window.
Shoot, bang, fire!

(Surrey, c. 1895)

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Keywords: calendar 
Location: Various NZ 
Group size: 3 
Incidence: 15