Hewery, Hiery, Hackery, Heaven

DESCRIPTION: Counting-out rhyme: ""Hewery, hiery, hackey, heaven [or other nonsense words], Hack a bone, crack a bone, ten or eleven, Baked, stewed, fried in the sun, Twiddlelem, twiddlelelm, twenty-one."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1975 (Deane/Shaw)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 119, "Meena, deena, deena, duss" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Tony Deane and Tony Shaw _The Folklore of Cornwall_, B. T. Batsford, 1975, p. 52, "(Hewery, hiery, hackery, heaven)" (1 short text)
File: DeSh052A

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