Apparently, the game was in the movie The Song of the South.
In Games and Songs of American Children, William Wells Newell describes seven versions of the game. Most of the versions are a fairly elaborate play that children act out.

-Joe Offer-

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I found one description of the game here:

One girl was the witch; she sat on the ground while the others had a base. They would go skipping and singing
"Chicken, chicken, McCraney Crow,
I went to the well to wash my toe,
When I came along back, my black-eyed chicken was gone,
What time is it Old Witch?"
She would say "one" and we'd go back to base and repeat. The witch counted until the number she had written down. When she said it, she would jump up and chase us. If one was touched, she had to be the witch.