It brings back my childhood. Here are a few that I remember. These chants were taught to me by the older kids. The girls would sing songs like these when they jumped rope or played hop-skotch. One for the money, Two for the show Three to get ready, And four to GO! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. All good children go to heaven, Some fly east, Some fly west, Some fly over the cuckoo's nest. One, two buckle my shoe, three, four,close the door, five, six, pick up sticks, seven, eight, close the gate, nine, ten , do it again. Three, six, nine The goose drank wine The monkey chewed tobacco on the street car line The line broke, the monkey got choked And they all went to heaven in a little row boat. My favorite... It's raining it's pouring, the old man is snoring. He went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in the morning!

Well, I like your idea! I remember some of them, such as: Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, hand in hand with one another. And one more: I have two eyes and I can see, I have two ears and I can hear, I have a mouth and I can talk, I have two legs and I can walk

This chant will pick one person in a group (circle): Eeny, meeny, miney, moe, Catch a tiger by his toe, If he hollers let him go, Out goes y, o, u ["you"]! In another chant, children will form a circle, dance and fall down at the end of the chant: "Ring around the roses, Pocket full of posies, Ashes, ashes We all fall down!" The origin of this is quite dark - it comes from the plague that hit England in the 1700's. The roses refer to the rash that would form in a circle on the victims chest. Posies are the masks that the doctors wore to treat the sick ashes and falling down refer to death. I'm sure almost no children and very few adults know the real origin of this chant.

More on fdmaxey's chants. For eeny meeny: "Another possibility is that the British occupiers of India brought a doggerel version of an Indian children's rhyme used in the game of carambola: "ubi eni mana bou, baji neki baji thou, elim tilim latim gou." (From Kamakhya, a socio-cultural study, by Nihar Ranjan Mishra. New Delhi:D.K. Printworld, 2004, p.157)" For ring around the rosy: I had always heard that the posies in the pocket were flowers, whose fragrance was thought to counter the "bad air" of the plague. I don't believe it was a facemask. (As an aside, the word "malaria" means "bad air").

I remember: Red, white and blue The boys love you They'll feed you to the monkeys Who look just like you!