Cinderella Dressed in Yellow – Jump Rope Rhyme with Recording
Marisa taught me this jump rope rhyme below (many of you might know some version of it)…
Listen to Cinderella Dressed in Yellow – MP3
Cinderella Dressed in Yellow
Jump Rope SongCinderella
Dressed in yellow
Went to kiss a prince,
By mistake,
Kissed a snake.
How many doctors
Did it take,
Was it,
One!
Two!
Three!
Four!
Five…
Game Instructions
Jump rope while reciting the rhyme. When you get to the counting part, you jump on each number. If you miss, you stop. Whatever number you’re on, that’s the number of doctors Cinderella needs!
Please feel free to let us know about the version of the Cinderella rhyme that you know or other jump rope rhymes in the comments below.
-Mama Lisa
Thanks to Marisa for contributing and reciting this rhyme, and for explaining how to play the jump rope game!
July 1st, 2008 at 12:42 am
We know it as “Cinderella dressed in yellow, went downstairs to kiss a fellow. Made a mistake, kissed a snake,” etc. Also, “Cinderella dressed in green, went downstairs to eat ice cream. Made a mistake, ate a snake,” etc. Or, “Cinderella dressed in pink, went downstairs to wash the sink. Made a mistake, washed a snake,” etc. You can make up rhymes for the colors Cinderella was dressed in.
My question is did anyone else jump to that terrible rhyme, “Fudge, fudge, call the judge,” about throwing the baby down the elevator? We never gave the lyrics a second thought.
December 8th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
I have a friend whose little grandaughter only recited “Cinderella kissed her fella”
I don’t remeber the kissing a snake part of this rhyme but perhaps you are correct. I thought Cinderella went to the ball and kissed her fella.
No, I don’t ever recall “Fudge, fudge, call the judge”. That is hardly polictically correct nowadays and most parents would have a fit and sue whoever taught their child that rhyme.
December 21st, 2008 at 6:44 pm
It goes:” Fudge, fudge, call the judge! Mama’s had a new born baby! Wrap it up in tissue paper, send it down the elevator. Twins, triplets, boy, girl”…and you repeat the twins etc. until you miss or run out…this was how we sang it in Ohio and Indiana. I think some of these different versions are dependant on region. Cinderella, by the way, went upstairs to “kiss her fella”…another interesting aside…kids yelled “Allie allie oxen free” or “allie allie in come free”, unless your dad was in the Army…then it was “allie allie infantry!”
April 29th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
this is how i learned the fudge fudge song its kind weird though:
fudge fudge call the judge mama’s having a baby daddy’s going crazy wrap it up in tissue paper throw it down the elevator first floor stop second floor spin around third floor touch the ground fourth floor get outta town i forgot the rest though
May 1st, 2009 at 2:04 am
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May 22nd, 2009 at 3:19 am
I learned it like this:
“Cinderella, dressed in yella*
Went upstairs t’ kissa** fella
Accident’lly kissed a snake
How many doctars*** will it take?”
*yellow, but you say it “yella” so that it will rhyme
**kiss a, but it was always pronounced “kissa”
***doctors, but it was always pronounced “doctars”
June 1st, 2009 at 10:04 am
I thought it was….
“Cinderella dressed in yellow,
went downstairs to kiss her fellow,
She made a mistake and kissed a snake,
How many doctors did it take?
One…Two…Three…etc.”
June 20th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I was thinking about the “fudge fudge” rhyme recently after seeing a childhood friend, so I googled it. Here are the lyrics from the Chicago suburbs in the late 1950s:
Fudge, fudge, call the judge
Mama’s got a new-born baby
It isn’t a girl
It isn’t a boy
It’s just an ordinary baby
Wrap it up in tissue paper
Send it down the elevator
First floor – miss! (deliberately miss)
Second floor – miss! (deliberately miss)
Third floor – kick it out the door (kick while jumping)
Mama don’t want her baby no more.
July 19th, 2009 at 5:13 am
Ok nowadays the mamas new born baby thing iz mamas havin a baby dad is goin crazy if its a boy ill give it a toy if its a twin ill wrap it up in toillet paper send it down a elevator
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:32 am
I remember it as
Fudge Fudge Call the judge
Mama’s got a new born baby
I’m not lying
It won’t stop crying
Wrap it up in tissue paper
Send it down the elevator
–First floor STOP (jumper stops the rope by landing on it)
–Second floor MISS (jumper misses by landing with one foot on each side of the rope)
–Third floor TURN AROUND (jumper spins while jumping)
–Fourth floor TOUCH THE GROUND (jumper touches the ground with fingertips between jumps)
–Fifth floor GET OUTTA TOWN! (jumper runs out and takes one end of the rope – without breaking the rhythm – so that girl gets a turn to jump, and so on, and so on, etc.)
I grew up in a small town in the late 60s and early 70s and it never occurred to any of us that this rhyme might be politically incorrect. The innocence of youth, I suppose…I can see now (as an adult) how the rhyme could be offensive, but we just never thought like that as kids. It was just a silly rhyme to sing while skipping rope.