When I was younger, my friends and I used to jump rope for every recess.
It was fun and we even got to where we could double dutch pretty good.
If I tried that now it would not look very good.
We used to do those rhymes that kids do with jumping rope. Teddy Bear and the list goes on.
Our favorite one was about Lizzie Borden.
I'm not sure who first started that one on the playground, but it was a favorite among my little circle of jump ropers.
“Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one."
OR
"Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks.
When her body hit the floor, she gave her father forty more.”
Back then we simply thought it was something someone made up, little did we know that it was about an actual person named Lizzie Borden! We had no idea that she actually killed her parents!
In August of 1892 Lizzie Borden killed her step mother, Abbey, first in the bedroom giving her 40 whacks on the head with an axe. Then she went downstairs and gave her dear ole Dad, Andrew, 40 more as he lay sleeping on the sofa.
She was arrested and tried for their murders, but was aquitted. The home where the murders took place is currently being used as a BnB and it's Haunted!
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