Occasionally the line copies 'Ip dip': Not because you're dirty, Not because you're clean, Just because you kissed a boy and girl behind the magazine. Or alternatively: O-U-T spells out, you are not it. Sometimes additional lines are added at the end of the rhyme to draw out or manipulate the selection process or make it seem less predetermined, such as: My mother told me/says to pick the very best one, and that is Y-O-U and changing the verb in the third line to 'screams', 'wiggles', 'squeals' or another verb. There are many common variations, such as replacing tiger with 'piggy', 'tinker', 'tigger', a two-syllable name, etc. If he hollers, let it go, Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Since many similar counting rhymes existed earlier, it is difficult to ascertain this rhyme's exact original.Ī common modern version is: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, Catch a tiger by the toe. The rhyme has existed in various forms since well before 1820 and is common in many languages with similar-sounding nonsense syllables. It is one of a large group of similar rhymes in which the child who is pointed to by the chanter on the last syllable is either 'chosen' or 'counted out'. ' Eeny, meeny, miny, moe' - which can be spelled a number of ways - is a children's counting rhyme, used to select a person in games such as tag, or for selecting various other things. I'm not tryin' to rewind, wind, wind, wind, wind, wind (oh yeah) If she holla (if, if, if she holla) let her goĬant make up your mind, mind, mind, mind, mind Shawty is an eenie meenie miney mo lover' Shawty yeah is an eenie meenie miney mo lover' I wish our hearts could come together as one Not tryin' to rewind, wind, wind, wind, wind, wind Please don't waste my time, time, time, time, time Can't make up your mind, mind, mind, mind, mind
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