Eena meena mina mo, Where do all the Frenchmen go? To the East and to the West, To the bonny birdie's nest Apples in the garden, fishes in the sea, if you want a pretty girl please choose me! The most common English form seems to be Eena, Meena, Mona, My, Barcelona, Bona, stry, Air, ware, frum, dy, Aracy, baraca, we, wo, wackīut there is a well-entrenched version, collected from Durham. He also found a similar rhyme in German: Ene, tene, mone, mei, Pastor, lone, bone, strei, Ene, fune, herke, berke, Wer? Wie? Wo? Was? The rhyme seems to have been unknown in England among collectors until the late nineteenth century, although it was found by Henry Bolton in the US, Ireland and Scotland in the 1880s. The first American record of a similar rhyme is from about 1815, when children in New York are said to have repeated the rhyme: Hana, man, mona, mike Barcelona, bona, strike Hare, ware, frown, vanac Harrico, warico, we wo, wac. Occasionally the line copies ' Ip dip': Not because you're dirty, Not because you're clean, Just because you kissed a boy/girl behind the magazine. Sometimes additional lines are added at the end of the rhyme to draw out or manipulate the selection process or make it seem less predetermined, such as: My mother told me/says to pick the very best one, And that is Y-O-U (alternative: And you are it! or "You dirty, dirty, dish rag, YOU!"
There are many common variations, such as replacing tiger with "piggy", "tinker", "tigger", "chicken", "monkey", "baby", "spider", or a two-syllable name and changing the verb in the third line to "screams", "wiggles", "squeals" or another verb. If he hollers, let him go, Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. A common modern version is: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, Catch a tiger by the toe.
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