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Twenty-one, change the gun; Twenty-two, the partridge flew; Twenty-three, she lit on a tree; Twenty-four, she lit down lower…. Twenty-nine, the game is mine; Thirty, make a kerchy. Some of the final lines Bolton's informant could no longer remember. [3] In the UK the rhyme was first recorded in Songs for the Nursery, published in London in ...
/ One is one, and all alone, and that is Greta Garbo". The song was very popular at holiday camps up until about the 1970s, where campers would perform actions whilst enthusiastically singing along to each verse. In this version the lyrics to verse 2 were completely changed to "two, two, the same to you; how's your father? he's alright".
"One, Two, Three, Four, Five" is one of many counting-out rhymes. It was first recorded in Mother Goose's Melody around 1765. Like most versions until the late 19th century, it had only the first stanza and dealt with a hare, not a fish: One, two, three, four and five, I caught a hare alive; Six, seven, eight, nine and ten, I let him go again. [1]
The lyrics also show a trend toward those more commonly associated with "Children, Go Where I Send Thee." For instance, the line "Two, two, the lily-white boys clothed all in green" in Grainger's recording has become "One was the little white babe all dressed in blue" in the Bellwood Prison Camp recording. [7] [2]
The phrase was also used as the title and in the main hook, with altered lyrics, for the song "One for the Money" by American rock band Escape the Fate. The phrase has also been used by Argentinian rapper Dillom in his song "PELOTUDA" from the album Post mortem. [5] The phrase was also used in the song "Give it to Me" by Agust D. [6]
"One for Sorrow" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition , the number of magpies seen tells if one will have bad or good luck. Lyrics
"1234" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Feist from her third studio album, The Reminder (2007). The song was co-written by Feist and Sally Seltmann, an Australian singer-songwriter who also recorded under the stage name New Buffalo. [1]
The song's lyrics express a carpe diem sentiment, with the singer noting that the inchworm of the title has a "business-like mind", and is blind to the beauty of the flowers it encounters: Two and two are four Four and four are eight That's all you have on your business-like mind Two and two are four Four and four are eight How can you be so blind?