What version of eeny-meeny did you learn?

Asked by fluthernutter (6328) September 5th, 2014 from iPhone

I grew up with:
Eeny meeny miny mo
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers make him pay
Fifty dollars every day.

My momma told me
To pick the best
And you are not it.
(We would then choose the one not designated as “it”.)

I’ve also heard:
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers let him go.

And I know some people choose “it”, because the other is designated as “not”.

But the the other day I heard my husband’s version:
Eeny meeny miny mo
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers let him go.
Out goes Y-O-U.
My mother told me
To pick the very best one
And you are not it.

I’ve never heard this version before! I found his Y-O-U verse kind of perplexing. Is this used to narrow down from three to two choices? Otherwise, doesn’t his version pick twice?

Which version did you learn?

I just did a wiki search and it turns out that in the earlier versions, tiger was n*gger! Damn. Children’s rhymes are messed up!