counting rhyme

Over in the Meadow is a popular counting rhyme of currently unknown and disputed origin.

Since many similar counting rhymes existed earlier, it is difficult to ascertain this rhyme's exact origin.

Counting rhymes and other songs for counting in traditional music from county of Nice, France.

(Ages 3 to 7) The illustrations for this collection of counting rhymes have a well-bred, 1920's kind of charm.

Nonsense Counting Rhymes (1999)

Counting Rhymes (London: Black, 1974).

Which Kirkus Reviews called 'a thoroughly adorable counting rhyme', was published by 1992, and is Coats's first book.

A Collection Of Counting Rhymes (Grey Johnson And Friends)

Counting Rhymes, Little Simon (New York, NY), 1984.

(All ages) ONE CROW A Counting Rhyme.

According to Henry Bolton, collector of counting rhymes in the 1880s, the rhyme was used in Wrentham, Massachusetts as early as 1780.

In the episode, Homer accidentally saves the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant from meltdown by arbitrarily choosing the emergency override button via a counting rhyme.

The track's title and chorus lyrics deal with a famous children's counting rhyme in English speaking countries (Eeny Meeny Miny Moe).

In Finnegans Wake, James Joyce quotes the counting rhyme onus, yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp.

The rhyme can also be seen as a counting rhyme, although the number of each toe (from 1 for the big toe to 5 for the little toe) is never stated.

The booklet features a collage of several polaroid photos of the band members and words composing the children's counting rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe".

"One Crow: A Counting Rhyme," written by Jim Aylesworth and illustrated by Ruth Young, takes children to the familiar world of the farm, replete with puppies and kittens, cows and horses.

Based on a famous children's counting rhyme, the song is primarily about confidence, secret, and confession and uses the lexical field of psychoanalysis; however, the many puns and double entendres can also provide another meaning explicitly referring to sexuality.

The music's intensification of these superior counting rhymes, conundra and wordplay would be exhilarating for a Hungarian audience, but Mr. Ligeti is aware that most people will be completely in the dark, and uses that to add to the humor.

Büchner's play is blunt and lyrical by turns, spinning out its infernal carnival of a tale in short Shakespearean scenes almost all of which are punctuated with music: period folk songs, ditties, taproom lieder, children's counting rhymes and more, which lighten the gloomy atmosphere.

The five little monkeys can also be a counting rhyme in which the original five jumping monkeys are replaced by four in the second verse, then three, then two, then one - until no little monkeys are left (that's what you get for jumping on the bed!)

The "unborn" protagonists, who take turns recounting the anecdote pieces as first-person narratives, are original creations of Nicolăescu-Plopşor, their names being nonsensical counting rhymes for the word loc ("place", as in stai pe loc, "stand your ground" or "you're it").