One, Two, Three, Four, Five

DESCRIPTION: "One, two, three, four, five, Once I caught a (fish/hare/mouse) alive, Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Then I let it go again. Why did you let it go? Because it big my finger so. Which finger did it bite? The little finger on the right."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1765 (Mother Goose's Melody, according to the Opies)
KEYWORDS: hunting animal fishing injury
FOUND IN: Britain(England) US(So) Ireland
REFERENCES (9 citations):
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 388, "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" (2 texts)
Dolby-OrangesAndLemons, p. 23, "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #626, p. 249, "(One, Two, Three)"
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 69, "Let Him Go Again" (1 text)
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 55, "I Caught a Hare"; p. 119, "One, two, three, four, five"; p. 129, "One, two, three, four, five" (3 texts)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #428, "One, two, three, four, five" (1 text)
Withers-EenieMeenieMinieMo, p. 9, "(One, two, three, four, five)"; p. 11, "(One, two, three, four, five)" (1 texts, the first one a mouse version, the second a fish version)
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 80, "One two three four five" (1 text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 37, "(One, two, three, four, five)" (1 text)
Roud #13530
File: OO2388

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