All Good Children go to Heaven

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, / All good children go to heaven…

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
All good children go to heaven.
If you’re bad you cannot go.
All the rest go down below.
How many bad ones go below?
One, Two, Three...

How to play

Keep counting until the skipper misses.

Where this rhyme comes from

Earliest record: by 1904
Sung in: Scotland/UK (Ford's collection)

Ford printed a counting-out rhyme beginning 'One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, All good children go to heaven' in 1904. It was used for choosing who is 'out' before it was a skipping count.

Sources: Robert Ford, Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories (1904), p.50.

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