Old Miss Blake
Old Miss Blake baked a cake. / The cake was soggy…
Old Miss Blake baked a cake.
The cake was soggy,
She fed it too her doggy.
The doggy ate the cake,
Then he got a tummy ache.
How many days was he sick?
One, Two, Three...
How to play
Keep counting until the skipper misses.
Where this rhyme comes from
We haven't found a dated record of it yet. The 'how many days?' counting ending is typical of 20th-century counting rhymes.
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