Variations of this rhyme, with the nonsense/counting first line have been collected since the 1820s, such as this Scottish one: Hickery Pickery, pease scon Where will this young man gang? Hell go east, hell go west, hell go to the crows nest.
Bolton also found a similar rhyme in German: Ene, tene, mone, mei, Pastor, lone, bone, strei, Ene, fune, herke, berke, Wer? Wie? Wo? Was? Henry Carrington Bolton discovered this version to be in the US, Ireland and Scotland in the 1880s but was unknown in England until later in the century.
The first record of a similar rhyme, called the "Hana, man," is from about 1815, when children in New York City are said to have repeated the rhyme: Hana, man, mona, mike Barcelona, bona, strike Hare, ware, frown, vanac Harrico, warico, we wo, wac.
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