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Children's singing game, Cat Island, June 1935.
 Children play a singing game on Cat Island in 1935

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Ella McBrise and a group of girls from Liberty High School singing "Itisket-Itasket" in 1939

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Singing Games
Singing games are often played by standing in a circle while singing the song, so they became known as ring games. In "Itiskit-Itasket" a handkerchief is dropped at a certain point and then a chase begins.

This particular recording of Itiskit-Itasket came from a group of African American girls playing in a schoolyard in Newton County, Texas, in 1939. Do you remember this song? Do you know different words to the song?

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CREDIT: Lomax, Alan, photographer."Children's Singing Game, Cat Island." June 1935. Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip, Library of Congress.
AUDIO CREDIT: McBrise, Ella and Group of Girls from Liberty High School. "Itisket-Itasket." 5/16/1939. Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip, Library of Congress.