Acka-backa, soda cracker

[Mark A. Mandel]

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> said:
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Curious the way these choosing rituals incorporated ethnic slurs.  In
our neighborhood (Washington Heights, NYC, c. 1950) it was always

Eenie meenie meinie moe
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers let him go
My mother said to pick this very one
Y-O-U spells you


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NYC,fifties: same except that the last line was "out goes Y-O-U".


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