Here's the variation I remember from childhood:
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo
Catch a nigger by his toe
If he hollers make him pay
Fifty dollars every day.
O-U-T spells out goes you,
You old dirty dishrag YOU!
We thought nothing of that one, either. But this next one I knew was naughty, because it made me feel sorry for the one little quadroon or mulatto boy in our rural Alabama elementary school (first through 4th grades, 1935-9). Of course we children were thoughtless, but so were our teachers...good teachers and otherwise kind ladies but, in retrospect...thoughtless:
Nigger, Nigger, pull your trigger
Up and down the Coosa River.
Snotty nose, ragged clothes,
That's the way the nigger goes.
My mammy told me to choose this very ONE!
G/W
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