Azizi-
Thanks for posting that. I was looking for that because I wanted to teach it to some kids I look after who can't seem to count long enough for the others to hide. I'd asked other people for the lyrics and they just looked at me like, "Huh?" I was beginning to think I imagined playing the game like that.

Oh, I didn't grow up in Georgia. I grew up near San Francisco, CA. Our version was slightly different.

I'm posting it just to add a bit more to the discussion:


Honey, honey, you'd be all, but I can't see y'all. Is all hid? "No-o-o!" Is all hid? "No-o-o!"
Went to the river but we couldn't get across
We'd paid five dollars for an ol' dead horse.
It's back was broke and it's knee was cracked,
And God all mighty how the horse did rack.
Is all hid?"No-o-o!" Is all hid?"No-o-o!"
I went down the road, The road was muddy. Stubbed my toe And made it bloody.
Is all hid?"No-o-o!" Is all hid?"No-o-o!"
Me and my wife and a bobtailed dog, Crossed that river on a hick'ry log. She fell in, and I fell off, that left nobody but the bobtailed dog.
Is all hid?"No-o-o!" Is all hid?"No-o-o!"

[Tune changes:]
Well, I ain't been to 'Frisco, I aint been to school, I aint been to college but I aint no fool. To the left to the right to the sa-sa-side.

Is all hid? Nooo. Is All hid... Nooo.

One, two, don't know what to do. Three, four I'm coming out the door, Five Six Hide or be in a fix Seven Eight It's getting really late Nine ten Too bad 'cause I'm a coming


When playing as a kid we usually only got a few verses in before everyone would stop responding. Occasionally someone who not from our neighborhood wouldn't realize that silence meant everyone was hidden so they'd keep singing until some impatient kid would shout "YES, ALREADY! SHUT UP!" Also, the San Francisco lyric and the school lyric were both kind of ironic additions considering at the time we were all going to school in what was then the 415 area code, and everyone had been to the city.