I stated a thread on it at the Straight Dope and got several variations. I've never met anyone before or since who knew it, until my friend this year who is also from the center part of CA had one that was similar. I remember Miss Mary Mack!! Any of you played "Chinese Jumprope"? I seem to remember a lot of these old things like the 10 little monkeys one and We'd dance in a circle with someone in the middle and they'd spin and point Raia, are those Hebrew words, or non-sense syllables that have the Hebrew form? If words, what do they mean? Ok, might have gotten that wrong, but it's one of my favourites.Ĭool, Synth, I have not heard that one before. I liked the rhymes kids used for jumping ropes or my favouriteĪnd turn around and turn around until you make a stop. I think it is a fascinating phenomenon, the things arising from the culture of children, spread far and wide and passed down to younger generations. I would be very interested in hearing some of the versions y'all might have known from childhood, or other local children's rhymes for that matter. I found some other variations here, but none like the one I knew: linkolla Apparently, though it has been used thus, it's origins are much older than that. Apparently recently there was a lawsuit because some feel this rhyme was originally a racial slur. I was doing a bit of googling and found some interesting historical info about this rhyme. We loved this version because it was all nonsense and so much fun to say. I know that children's rhymes are often regional in their variations, and I learned this one in North Carolina. I learned a variation of Eenie Meenie Miney Moe as a child and I have never met anyone else who has ever heard of it.
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