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The popularity of particular counting-out rhyme wordings has varied over the years. In 1969 Iona and Peter Opie found "One potato, two potato" to be "in constant use" both in the UK and the USA during the 20th century [6] but by 2010, although still very well known, Steve Roud found that it was no longer British children's first choice for counting out.
One Potato, Two Potato 'One Potato, Two Potatoes' Unknown Poor Mary 'Poor Jenny' or 'Poor Sally' England Star Light, Star Bright: United States Ten in the Bed 'There were ten in the Bed', '10 in the Bed', 'There were 10 in the bed' Unknown Origin unknown, there is a picture book dating to 1988 which uses similar lyrics. Ten Green Bottles
Pages in category "Traditional children's songs" The following 198 pages are in this category, out of 198 total. ... One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) One potato, two ...
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The French rhyme Une balle en or, tu sors: "A ball made of gold, you're out" Counting out game played by Igbo children from Nigeria (These rhymes may have many local or regional variants.) Eeny, meeny, miny, moe; 10 Little Indians; Five Little Ducks; Ip dip; One, Two, Three, Four, Five; Tinker, Tailor (traditionally played in England) Yan Tan ...
Singing games began to be recorded and studied seriously in the nineteenth century as part of the wider folklore movement. Joseph Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Robert Chambers’s Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1826), James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842) and Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales (1849), and G. F. Northal's English Folk Rhymes ...
Although Tommy Thumb's Song Book is an older collection, no copies of its first printing have survived. The only other printed copies of nursery rhymes that predate the Pretty Song-Book are in the form of quotations and allusions, such as the half-dozen or so that appear in Henry Carey's 1725 satire on Ambrose Philips, Namby Pamby. [5]