A Little Green Snake
This is used as a counting-out rhyme and a jump-rope rhyme.
A Little Green Snake
Counting-Out Rhyme
A little green snake
Ate too much cake,
And now he's got
A belly-ache!
Notes
Here's a version from "The Counting-out Rhymes of Children" by Henry Carrington Bolton (1888)...
As I was walking down the lake,
I met a little rattlesnake.
I gave him so much jelly-cake,
It made his little belly ache;
One, two, three, out goes she!
Variation from "What They Say in New England: A Book of Signs, Sayings, and Superstitions" by Clifton Johnson:
As I went up Salt Lake,
I met a little rattlesnake.
He e't so much of ginger cake,
It made his little belly ache.
Thanks and Acknowledgements
Image composed by Mama Lisa.
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