Eenie meenie miney moe
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers let him go
Eenie meenie miney moe
My mother said to pick the very best one and you are not IT!
One potato, two potato, three potato four, five potato six potato seven potato, OR
(or what? we weren’t very bright kids)
olley olley oxenfree
London bridge is falling down (am I showing my age?) falling down, falling down
London Bridge id falling down, my fair lady
Build it up with wood and clay,
Wood and clay, wood and clay,
Build it up with wood and clay,
My fair lady.
I learned from wikipedia just now that there are more verses than that… who knew?
We used to actually have a game to London bridge where we two of us would stand facing each other holding hands and someone would stand in the middle and we’d knock them about from side to side for falling down, to get them to, well fall down. I forget what we did with “wood and clay” but it probably degraded to throwing grass and dirt at one another. We did that a lot when I was a kid.
Another strange one we did, we’d take dandelions and sing “mama had a baby and its’ head popped off” and we’d pop off the flower from the dandelion with our thumb so that the flower would fly up in the air as we sang “popped off”