Andy from Independence, Missouri, inherited a toe-counting rhyme from his grandfather: Tom Pumpkin, Long Larkin, Betty Pringle, Johnny Jingle, and Little Dick. The exact source is unknown, but it fits a lively family of English and Scandinavian toe...
Marie in Anna, Texas, grew up hearing her mother announce, Home again, home again, jiggity-jig at the end of every family trip. The phrase comes from a Mother Goose rhyme: “To market, to market, to buy a fat pig, home again, home again, jiggity-jig...
