Re: fingers

--- tomhchappell <tomhchappell@...> wrote:

> When my god-daughter was a pre-schooler her piano
> teacher taught her
> a five-verse song to the tune of "Frere Jacques"
> about "(1)Thumbkin,
> (2)Pointer, (3)Middleman, (4)Ringman, (5)Little
> One".  The teacher
> was an American with a German name, Spetz; the
> student was a half-
> Chinese American with an English name, Woodbury.
> ---
> Tom H.C. in MI
>
Where is Thumbkin?  Where is Thumbkin?
Here I am.  Here I am.
How are you today, sir?
Very well, I thank you.
Run away.  Run away.

Is that the one?  I learned it in kindergarten, but
learned Middleman as Tallman and Little One as Pinkie.
 The rhyme involved hiding both hands behind the back;
bringing one and the the other out after the question
"Where is ____?"; wiggling the appropriate finger
while it was "talking" to its opposite; and then
re-hiding the hadns behind the back.

Adam

Jin nifalud fistus todus idavi eseud adimpuudu ul isu fi aved niminchunadu pera ul
Dju peu'l medju djul provedu cumvi dichid: «Iñi! Cunchepijid ed nadajid il
virdjini ad junu huiju, ed cuamajuns ad si il Emanueli fi sñivigad ul Dju simu
noviscu.»

Machu 1:22-23

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