[Darnright]

>I've always heard it as, "catch a monkey by the toe." Give the gals a banana.

Ah, finally the version I grew up with, although I had heard the "n" version used by bratty boys when I was a kid.

[F.J. Mitchell]

I'll confess to having heard that version too. I recall marching to a version of it in Basic training: eenie meenie moe, we're going back to kokomo, Sound off!.......