Let's see ... there was a counting chant that we used in jump-roping:
Cinderella, dressed in yella went upstairs to kiss her fella made a mistake, kissed a snake how many doctors did it take was it 1, 2, 3 ... etc.
This was another hand-slap thing where we stood in a group of four and alternated between clapping hands with the person opposite and the two people to the side:
Shake, shake, shake to the bottom of the lake I don't wanna go to school no more, more, more Got the big fat teacher at the door, door, door see what I mean, jellybean wash your face with gasoline made a mistake, kissed a snake come out with a bellyache
There was a variant of this that started "shake, shake, shake to the rah, rah, rah", but I don't remember all the words. I know they were similar to the Jackson 5 song "Rockin' Robin" but I can't remember them.
I do remember that I knew others, but I'm blanking on what they were. But for what it's worth, I did know a different version of one of the counting ditties:
Eeenie meenie minie moe catch a tiger by his toe if he hollers make him pay 50 dollars every day my mother told me to pick the very best one and so I picked the very best one and you are not it
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Date: 2005-03-14 09:35 am (UTC)Cinderella, dressed in yella
went upstairs to kiss her fella
made a mistake, kissed a snake
how many doctors did it take
was it 1, 2, 3 ... etc.
This was another hand-slap thing where we stood in a group of four and alternated between clapping hands with the person opposite and the two people to the side:
Shake, shake, shake to the bottom of the lake
I don't wanna go to school no more, more, more
Got the big fat teacher at the door, door, door
see what I mean, jellybean
wash your face with gasoline
made a mistake, kissed a snake
come out with a bellyache
There was a variant of this that started "shake, shake, shake to the rah, rah, rah", but I don't remember all the words. I know they were similar to the Jackson 5 song "Rockin' Robin" but I can't remember them.
I do remember that I knew others, but I'm blanking on what they were. But for what it's worth, I did know a different version of one of the counting ditties:
Eeenie meenie minie moe
catch a tiger by his toe
if he hollers make him pay
50 dollars every day
my mother told me to pick the very best one
and so I picked the very best one
and you are not it