My Father Has a Horse to Shoe

DESCRIPTION: Jump-rope or counting-out rhyme. "My father has a horse to shoe, How many nails do you think will do? One, two, three...." (Or the players may race to pick numbers less than the number of players; the last to choose a number is it.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1947 (Botkin, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: father horse jumprope | horseshoe shoe nail counting
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Withers-EenieMeenieMinieMo, p. 35, "(My father has a horse to shoe)" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #367, "My Father Has a Horse to Shoe" (1 text)
File: AJRR367

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