Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Lyrics
' Eeny, meeny, miny, moe' — which can be spelled a number of ways — is a children's, used to select a person in games such as, or for selecting various other things. It is one of a large group of similar rhymes in which the child who is pointed to by the chanter on the last syllable is either 'chosen' or 'counted out'. The rhyme has existed in various forms since well before 1820 and is common in many languages with similar-sounding nonsense syllables. Since many similar counting rhymes existed earlier, it is difficult to ascertain this rhyme's exact original. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 1952), p. • Donna Wood (1971). Alfred Music Publishing.
'Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe' is a children's counting rhyme and can be spelled in many different ways. The song is an example of a 'Counting-out rhyme' and is used as a method of selecting someone amongst a group to be 'it'.
Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. Bauer, (PDF).
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Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Lyrics
Transaction Publishers. Opie, Children's Games in Street and Playground (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969), p.
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