Can Anyone Help with a Rhyme with the Line “Round a Bit”? (It may be originally Polish.)
Lynda wrote looking for help with a rhyme…
I hope that you can help me with an old rhyme of sorts. It is spoken softly as to calm a child said while making small circles on a child’s skin and then traveling up and starting all over. We can only remember part of it, this is what we can recall:
“Round a bit, round a bit, round a bit” repeating as often as you make the small circles with your finger on the child’s skin.
Then while traveling up the arm or leg or etc… “Up a bit, up a bit”, stopping and starting the small circles again.We seem to remember something about a “wee little mouse”.
Does any of this ring a bell to you? The lady who used to do this was of Polish decent if that helps.
Thank you,
Lynda Dull,
If anyone can help with this rhyme, please let us know in the comments below.
Thanks!
Mama Lisa
February 12th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
This tickling rhyme sounds a little like yours…
Slowly, slowly, very slowly
Creeps the garden snail.
Slowly, slowly, very slowly
Up the garden rail.
Quickly, quickly, very quickly
Runs the little mouse.
Quickly, quickly, very quickly
Round about the house!
Or another one that goes…
Round and round the haystack
Went the little mouse
One step, two step,
To his little house!
February 15th, 2009 at 7:48 am
The only one I can think of is something my grandmother used to sing to me (English). The motion of circling on the palm of the hand is the same. When she said “one step” she would move her hand to my wrist, for the 2nd step she would move her hand to the crook of my elbow and then she would tickle me under the armpit. Here are the words she used to sing:
Round and round the garden
Like a teddy bear
One step
Two steps
Tickly under there!
I suppose that a lot of children’s nursery rhymes are basically the same but varied according to the country/language.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:10 am
My grandmother would say to me:
Round a bout, Round a bout
Went the wee mouse.
Up the stairs, Up the stairs,
In the wee house!
July 6th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Round About Round About — circles on hand
Runs a wee Mouse
Up A Bit Up A Bit — walk fingers up arm ( voice getting higher)
In A Wee Little house — Tickle under the arm
October 5th, 2009 at 1:04 am
My grandmother came from Scotland early in the 20th century or possibly the late 1990’s and shared this little rhyme with me as a child (1954) complete with her Scottish accent. I have been searching the internet for its origins and the complete ryhme when I found you.
Rund-a-bit, Rund-a-bit – (circles on the open palm, with your index finger) went a wee moose (mouse)
Up a bit, Up a bit – (walk finger up the arm, voice gets higher)
in a wee hoose (house) The fingers end up at the neck with a little tickle.
Wanted to find more of the ryhme, my little grandson who is 2 loves this little game and has shared it with his little friend at Sunday school. Now all the moms are asking about it.
R
October 19th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Here’s our Americanized version:
(Trace circles on child’s palm)
Round a bit, round a bit
Goes the little mouse
(Walk fingers up child’s arm to tickle her little neck or ear)
Up a bit, up a bit
Into his house!