Hmmm. Well that last rhyme I posted didn't have a version of "eenie meenie" or "kiss a girl behind the magazine". Sorry 'bout that.

Lemme try again with three other examples that I don't think I posted here yet.

First, here's the version of the eenie meenie rhyme I recited as a child in Atlantic City, New Jersey {1950s}

Eenie Meenie
Thumableenie
Oosh Ah Umbaleenie
Ahsie Mashie
Kokalaashie
I love you.

-snip-

Here's an example of an eenie meenie rhyme that I collected from an African American woman who lives in Pittsburgh:

Eenie Meenie Justaleanie
Eenie Meanie Justa Leanie
Ooca Acla Trackalacka, I love you.
Take a peach, Take a plum
Take a piece of bubble gum.
Teacher, Teacher, Dummy Dum
Gimme back my bubble gum.
Saw you with your boyfriend last night.
How do you know?
I was peekin' through the keyhold.
NOSY
Wash them dishes
LAZY
Jump out the window
CRAZY
Peaches on the tree, Bananas on the floor
Jump back baby. I Don't Love You No More!
- Donetta A. {Pittsburgh, PA 1984} http://www.cocojams.com/handclap_rhymes_example_0104.htm

-anip-

Also here's another rhyme that I think can be claimed by the 'eenie meenie miney mo' family, at least as a distant cousin:

itsy bitsy teeny witsy ew oh to0-ba-leeny outsy whatsy sellahawts say the magic words.. i have a stick of chewing gum and if you want the other half.. this is what you say.. amen. amen. amen-deyago sedeyago hookes pookes sallamoskes sis.. sis .. sis coom ba.. everybody eerybody RA-RA-RA.. BOO-BOO-BOO.. sitting on a trash can banging on a tin can i can you can nobody else can sitting on a bench.. nothnig to do.. along comes a little baby goochy gochy goo..

i learned this as when i was litte.
posted by brrittannee at March 25, 2005 http://blog.oftheoctopuses.com/000518.php