✦ A Nursery Rhyme ✦
One, two, buckle my shoe; three, four, knock at the door. A classic counting rhyme from one all the way to twenty.
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✦ The Rhyme ✦
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
One, two, Buckle my shoe; Three, four, Knock at the door; Five, six, Pick up sticks; Seven, eight, Lay them straight; Nine, ten, A big fat hen; Eleven, twelve, Dig and delve; Thirteen, fourteen, Maids a-courting; Fifteen, sixteen, Maids in the kitchen; Seventeen, eighteen, Maids a-waiting; Nineteen, twenty, My plate’s empty.
✦ About the Rhyme ✦
“One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” was first printed in 1805. Each pair of numbers comes with a rhyme and a little picture, which makes counting easy to remember.
To “dig and delve” means to dig in the garden. Many families learn only the first verses up to ten, but the full rhyme counts all the way to an empty plate at twenty.
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