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“Chicken In The Car”
Rhyme
“Chicken in the car
And the car can’t go.
That’s how you spell Chicago.”
This jingle (short rhyming song) is from my
childhood memories of Atlantic City, New Jersey in the mid 1950s and 1960s.
I don’t remember doing any handclapping or jumping movements while
chanting this. It was something fun
to sing or chant. Another spelling
jingle that we used to trick people with was “Mississippi”.
We would ask kids if they knew how to spell “Mississippi”.
They would start spelling M.I.S.S. I.P. P. I.
And we would crack up laughing and ask them what did they say and at some
point they would realize that they said that they went to the “bathroom”.
Get it? “I. P. P.”
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