This rhyme was recorded as early as 1806, in Massachusetts and Connecticut, in the USA...
Intery, Mintery, Cutery Corn
Counting-out Rhyme
Intery, mintery, cutery corn,
Apple seed and apple thorn;
Wire, brier, limber-lock,
Five geese in a flock,
Sit and sing by a spring,
O-u-t, and in again.
Here's the version you can hear in the mp3 below...
Intery, mintery, cutery, corn,
Apple seed, and apple thorn;
Wire, brier, limber lock,
Three geese in a flock,
One flew east and one flew west,
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
Intery, mintery, cutery, corn,
Apple seed, and apple thorn;
Wire, brier, limber lock,
Three geese in a flock,
One flew east and one flew west,
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
Comments
The first version of this rhyme can be found in The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright. It can also be found in The Mother Goose; Containing All The Melodies The Old Lady Ever Wrote, edited By Dame Goslin (1850).
Thanks and Acknowledgements
Image from "In the Nursery of My Bookhouse" (1920), edited by Olive Beaupre Miller.
Read by Kandice Stehlik.
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