ID: 1016
Date: 1960s-2006
Title: I'm a pretty Dutch girl
Gender: Female 
Classification: Clapping 
Rhyme: 

I'm a pretty little Dutch girl,
As pretty as can be,
And all the boys in Amsterdam,
Go crazy over me, me, me.
My boyfriend's name is Tony,
He comes from the land of Paloney, 
With freckles  on his lips,
And freckles on his nose,
So this is how the story, goes, goes, goes.
One night he gave me kisses, 
One night he gave me hugs.
One night he gave me twenty five kisses 
And pushed me down the stairs, stairs, stairs.

(NZ, 1970s)

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I'm a pretty little Dutch girl,
As pretty as can be,
And all the boys in my backyard, (baseball team)
Go crazy over me.
My boyfriend's name is Blackey, (Fatty)
He comes from Cincinatti, (Allabatty)
With a pimple on his nose, and ten black toes.
One day when I was walking, I saw my boyfriend talking,
To a pretty little girl with a golden curl.
This is what he said to her,
I L - O - V - E , love you,
I K - I - S - S , kiss you.
In the D - A - R - K dark.

(Whangarei, 1970s; Auckland, 1990s)

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I'm a pretty little Dutch girl,
As pretty as can be,
And all the boys in the bakery,
Are crazy over me, me, me.

(Putaruru, 1970s)

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I'm a pretty little Dutch girl,
As pretty as can be,
And all the boys in the baseball team,
Go crazy over me, me, me.
My boyfriend's name is Tony,
He comes from the land of Poloney,
With freckles on his nose,
And rings around his toes,
And that's the way my story goes, goes, goes.
One night he gave me coffee, 
One night he gave me tea, 
One night he gave me 25cents 
And kicked me down the stairs, stairs, stairs.
I gave him back his coffee,
I gave him back his tea.
I gave him back his 25cents, 
And that's the way my story ends, ends, ends.

(Rotorua, 1960s)

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My boyfriend's name is Jackie,
He comes from Taranaki,
With a pimple on his nose,
And big, long toes,
And this is how my story goes.
One day when I was walking,
I saw my boyfriend talking,
To a pretty young girl,
With strawberry curls.
And this is what he told her,
I love you so sincerely,
I love you with all my heart,
So jump in the lake and swallow a snake,
And come out with a belly ache.

(Auckland, 2000)

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I'm a pretty little Dutch girl,
As pretty as can be,
And all the boys on the baseball team,
Go crazy over me, me, me.
My Daddy's name is Tony,
He owns a baloney,
With thirty five toes and a horse up his nose.
My boyfriend gave me apples,
My boyfriend gave me pears,
My boyfriend gave me thirty five cents 
And threw me down the stairs.
I gave him back his apples,
I gave him back his pears,
I gave him back his thirty five cents,
And stole his underwear.

(Christchurch, 2000)

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My boyfriend's name is Willy,
He comes from Pipanilly,
He's got a cherry as a nose,
And forty eight toes,
And this is how my story goes.
One day I was out walking,
And saw my boyfriend talking,
To a pretty young girl with a chocolate curl.
And this is what he said to her,
I L.O.V.E. love you,
I K. I. S. S. kiss you,
So I jumped in the lake,
And swallowed a snake,
And came back up with a belly.

(Timaru, 2006)

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Background Info: Discussion and tune to this rhyme in Opie, 1988:450-452. 

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Identified in New York, 1940, UK, 1959.
Other variations:
Fatty from Cincinnati; Sammy from Alabamy; Sambo from Alabamo; Randy from the land of candy. Schwartz, 1992:174

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Lowenstein, 1974:  24 records the version:

I'm a pretty little Dutch girl
As pretty as can be, be, be.
And all the boys around the place
Are crazy over me, me, me.
My mother sent me to the shop
And told me not to stay, stay, stay.
I met a boy from down the lane,
And stayed to Christmas day.
He offered me some peaches,
He offered me some pears,
He offered me some twenty five cents
To kiss him on the stairs.
I do not want your peaches,
I do not want your pears,
I do not want your twenty five cents,
To kiss you on the stairs.
My boyfriend's name is Tony,
He comes from the land of Baloney,
With two big toes and a pimple on his nose.
And this is how my story goes.
One day when I was walking
I heard my boyfriend talking,
To a pretty little girl with a funny little curl,
And this is what he said to her.
I love you very dearly
With all my heart sincerely.
I'll take you down to the big old tree,
And there we'll raise a family.

(Melbourne, 1967)

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Keywords: romance, NZ culture, 
Location: Various NZ, South Africa 
Group size: 4 
Incidence: 8