Need help finding the original verse to this rhyme.

[Papagayo]

I want to teach my kid the right things..

This is a nice rhyme, but I need to find out what the original verse is.

Eeny meeny miny mo, catch a tiger by his toe, if he hollers let him go, eeny meeny miny mo.
Eeny meeny miny mo, catch a tiger by his toe, if he hollers make him pay fifty dollars every day.


I was told that the original rhyme had the n_gger (in place of tiger) word in it. If it did, I won't be teaching this rhyme to my kid.

I tried to search for the origin of the rhyme, but couldn't find it.

If someone could find a link to a dependable site that would explain the origin, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[NickE]

Pretty sure that 'n_gger' (stupid filter!) was the original version - don't have a link to confirm that at the moment.

 

[thirtythree]

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[GtPrOjEcTX]

I recall my grandmother telling me once that it was originally n_gger.

 

[GasX]

Another good one is Agatha Christies famous book - Ten Little Indians (based on a poem).

It wasn't always indians...

 

[nakedfrog]

What's the problem with it?

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
What's the problem with it?

It started off as "Ten Little N*ggers". When that was found to be a little inappropriate, it was changed to "Ten Little Indians" In the US, the book was released as, "And Then There Were None"

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It's a GREAT story, btw...

 

[nakedfrog]

I'll tell you what I found far more offensive... my daughter learned the song as "Ten Little Angels."
Really pissed me off, I'd much rather her learn it as indians. We're not christians, and I don't think her school had any right to do that. It's only at the urging of my wife that I didn't go down there bitching up a storm.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I'll tell you what I found far more offensive... my daughter learned the song as "Ten Little Angels."
Really pissed me off, I'd much rather her learn it as indians. We're not christians, and I don't think her school had any right to do that. It's only at the urging of my wife that I didn't go down there bitching up a storm.

Ironic that you don't mind the poem as long as it is offensive to someone else...

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I'll tell you what I found far more offensive... my daughter learned the song as "Ten Little Angels."
Really pissed me off, I'd much rather her learn it as indians. We're not christians, and I don't think her school had any right to do that. It's only at the urging of my wife that I didn't go down there bitching up a storm.

Ironic that you don't mind the poem as long as it is offensive to someone else...

I'f I'm black and call another blck a n_gger I'm cool. If I do it and I'm white I'm racist. See something wrong with this picture?

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I'll tell you what I found far more offensive... my daughter learned the song as "Ten Little Angels."
Really pissed me off, I'd much rather her learn it as indians. We're not christians, and I don't think her school had any right to do that. It's only at the urging of my wife that I didn't go down there bitching up a storm.

Ironic that you don't mind the poem as long as it is offensive to someone else...

I'f I'm black and call another blck a n_gger I'm cool. If I do it and I'm white I'm racist. See something wrong with this picture?

Yeah, what about brown people?

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I'll tell you what I found far more offensive... my daughter learned the song as "Ten Little Angels."
Really pissed me off, I'd much rather her learn it as indians. We're not christians, and I don't think her school had any right to do that. It's only at the urging of my wife that I didn't go down there bitching up a storm.

Ironic that you don't mind the poem as long as it is offensive to someone else...

I'f I'm black and call another blck a n_gger I'm cool. If I do it and I'm white I'm racist. See something wrong with this picture?

no doubt...

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I'll tell you what I found far more offensive... my daughter learned the song as "Ten Little Angels."
Really pissed me off, I'd much rather her learn it as indians. We're not christians, and I don't think her school had any right to do that. It's only at the urging of my wife that I didn't go down there bitching up a storm.

Shut up.

 

[badmouse]

It was the n-word when I was a kid in the early 50's. Then it was injuns - but by the early 60's that was offensive too. Then it was tigers. Waiting to see who's offended by that.

From here :

In America, a formerly popular verse gave the second line as "catch a n*gger by the toe," which in some eyes has tainted the entire rhyme. Originally the phrase was "catch the n*gger by his toe." This predated black slavery and was a reference to the devil. The devil having cloven hooves wuold have no feeling in his toes, so the rhyme was a way of detecting Old Nick from an innocent.