A number of lines and verses from children's game song, choosing it, jump rope, and handclap rhymes are found in R&B music, Reggae, and other popular music.

Here's two examples of songs which have a children's rhyme as their source.

Bob-A-Needle
In 1964 Chubby Checker, who is best known for his Twist fame, recorded a R&B version of the African American children's game Bob-A-Needle.

See "Hey Bob-a- Needle": Chubby Checker

This game is included in Bessie Jones & Bess Lomax Hawes' book "Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs & Stories from the Afro-American Heritage {University of Georgia Press, 1972, pps. 163-164}
basong is see for words & comments about the game song.

See this Mudcat thread Origins: Bob-A-Needle

If your interested in doing so, you can also read my comments about this game on http://www.cocojams.com/games_children_play.htm .

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Green Sally Up

"Green Sally Up" was recorded by Moby in the Album "Play" under the name "Flowers". See http://www.lyricsdepot.com/moby/flower.html

The words to this African American children's game song from the Gullah tradition are also included in Bessie Jones & Bess Lomax Hawes' book "Step It Down". The song is also included on Disc 4 of Alan Lomax's Sounds of the South, A Musical Journey fromt the Georgia Sea Isles to the Mississippi Delta.{Atlantic 787496-2; 1993.

If interested, you can also read my comments about this game song on my Cocojams website.