One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

DESCRIPTION: "One, two, buckle my shoe; Three, four, (open/shut) the door; Five, six, pick up sticks; Seven, eight, lay them straight...." And so forth, to ten or twenty or even beyond; there is naturally increasing variation as the numbers grow larger
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1805 (Songs for the Nursery, according to Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND IN: US(MA,MW,So,SW) Ireland
REFERENCES (13 citations):
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 385, "One, two, Buckle my shoe" (1 text, plus excerpts from Bolton's text that goes all the way to thirty)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #615, p. 246, "(One, two, buckly my shoe)"
Henry-SongsSungInTheSouthernAppalachians, pp. 239-240, (no title) (1 text)
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 118, "(One, two, buckle my shoe)"; p. 224, "One-Two" (2 texts)
Dolby-OrangesAndLemons, p. 22, "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" (1 text)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 55, "Buckle My Shoe"; p. 73, "Boys a-Plenty" (2 texts)
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 55, "One, Two, Buckle my Shoe" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #425, "One, two, buckle your (my) shoe" (1 text)
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 62, "One, two, buckle my shoe" (1 text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 37, "(One, two, buckle my shoe)" (1 text)
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, p. 71, "(One, two, come buckle my shoe)" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, Vance Randolph, "Jump Rope Rhymes From Arkansas" Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer 1953), p. 81, "(One, two, buckle your shoe)" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Tristram P. Coffin and Hennig Cohen, _Folklore in America: Tales, Songs, Superstitions, Proverbs, Riddles, Games, Folk Drama and Folk Festivals_, Doubleday, 1966, p. 187, "A Ball-Bouncing Game" (1 text)
Roud #11284
File: BGMG615

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