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To: hole_n_one

1-2
buckle my shoe.
3-4
Shut the door.
5-6
pick up sticks.
7-8
lay them straight.
9-10
a big fat hen.


1-2-3-4-5-6-7
All good children go to heaven.

(I used to be friends with a woman who did academic work on counting jingles and jump rope songs. It scrambled something in my head, perhaps.)


3 posted on 04/03/2006 8:25:34 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Hey, you can't say that rhyme in school anymore; most children's book print it as "9-10, a great kind hen".
Don't get me started on the Heaven reference. :-)


5 posted on 04/03/2006 10:14:45 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Going armed to the terror of the public.)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Geez. I've not heard that little ditty for many, many years. Used to say it often.


7 posted on 04/04/2006 2:58:31 PM PDT by miele man
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