Eggs, Butter, Cheese, Bread
Counting-out Rhyme
Eggs, butter, cheese, bread,
Stick, stock, stone dead,
Stick him up, stick him down,
Stick him in the old man's crown.
Notes
According to Roger D. Abrahams and Lois Rankin, Editors of Counting-Out Rhymes, A Dictionary, this rhyme is "Used as an ending for many rhymes." Though a few of their sources "give the rhyme as complete in itself".
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This rhyme can be found in Children's Literature, A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes (1920) by Charles Madison Curry and Erle Elsworth Clippinger.
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