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First published in 1948, "A Rocket in My Pocket" remains one of the definitive volumes of contemporary folklore. Collected over a ten-year period by the late Carl Withers, the over 400 verses included are the stuff of childhood itself - created by children and passed along for generations. Here are street songs and playground chants; rhymes for bouncing balls, skipping rope, and counting off; link rhymes and spelling rhymes; tongue twisters and tall tales; jingles, riddles, superstitions, banter, and other verbal nonsense. The collection represents children at their most inventive, capturing the true spirit of the folklore of modern American youth and offering a new generation of youngsters poetry just for the fun of it.