Re: fingers

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Adam Walker <carrajena@Y...> wrote:
> --- tomhchappell <tomhchappell@Y...> 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
>
Yes, Adam, that's it exactly!
The student's contribution was the method of locomotion in the last
line; "Run back home", "Swim back home", or whatever.
So; do you think it helped you learn to type, or to play an
instrument?
-----
Tom H.C. in MI

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