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Goldfish
My darling little goldfish
Hasn't any toes.
He swims around without a sound
And bumps his hungry nose.
He can't get out to play with me
Nor I get in to him.
Although
I say, "Come out and play."
He says,
"Come in and swim."
Lines 1, 2, & 3: right
hand makes wavy swimming motions.
Line 4: right hand bumps
own nose.
Line 5: right hand swims.
Line 6: left hand stand upright.
Line 7: left hand motions
to right hand.
Line 8: right hand motions
to left hand.
— Author
Unknown
— from Children's
Counting-Out Rhymes, Fingerplays, Jump-Rope and Bounce-Ball Chants and
Other Rhythms (McFarland Pub. 1983, 2006) by Gloria T. Delamar
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Mousie Brown
Up the candlestick he ran,
Little Mousie Brown,
To go and eat the tallow,
But he couldn't get back down.
"Grandma, Grandma,"
But his Grandma was in town,
So he doubled up into a ball,
And rolled right down.
Line 1: raise right arm and
let fingers of the left hand run to the top of the right hand.
Lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. & 7:
let left (Mousie) sit on top of right hand (candle).
Lines 8 & 9: make a fist
of left hand and bring it down the right arm in a tumbling motion.
— Old
Chinese Rhyme
— from Children's
Counting-Out Rhymes, Fingerplays, Jump-Rope and Bounce-Ball Chants and
Other Rhythms (McFarland Pub. 1983, 2006) by Gloria T. Delamar
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