Ten little indians??

[NYCgrrl]

Can you help me remember the words to the song? A first grade teacher at school needs all the words and can't remember them....does anybody know?

We've got:

One little,
Two little,
Three little indians,

Four little,
Five little,
Six little indians,

Seven little,
Eight little,
Nine little indians,

Ten little indian boys and girls!

Then theres something about "jumping in the canoe and the canoe tipped over" and something about "tepees" and hand motions to go along with it. My kids learned this in preschool but can't remember it at all. Anybody know it?

Thanks!

There are two actually 3 versions of the song that I'm aware of if you include the UK version. The original version is just a counting song. The second version is a minstrel song with flushed out and extended lyrics and is considered offensive by many. You can hear the 3rd vision by watching an Agatha Christie movie. You can find any of the versions by googling.

I never knew the song had all those extra verses!! Can you believe that our elementary school banned that song about 10 years ago after a complaint from one of the parents?

We can't say Merry Christmas, either. It's Winter Time or Happy Holidays.....

Pam

"Season's Greetings" is the norm in my neck of the woods; doesn't bother me.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Not a fan of calling Native Americans Indians, especially since I'm married to an actual Indian from India. That being said, I wouldn't raise a fit about it unless my sons wanted me to. My DH has an elaborate Native American headdress that was given to him when he was tribal chief of our sons' tribe in the YMCA Father/Child program. He liked to joke about how he was the only Indian who had ever worn it.

ETA: Yes, I know this is a zombie thread. Brains! Brains!

Agreed to some extent.
Most of my emigrating ancestors were listed as British West Indians at Ellis Island. Times have changed and we either refer to them as Caribbeanites or just by the island now nations they came from. My older sister's birth certificate says she's a "coloured" person, I'm a "Negro", and my youngest sister is an "Afro-American". We were all born in NYC and the changes are merely reflections of the political power our people came to acquire in this country. It was very confusing growing up with all those different labels (my US born grandmother had legal papers denoting her a "nigra"- sigh) and I'm now quite content to be a "Black American". I'll accept some other popular terms but would be veddy annoyed if someone called me "coloured, Negro, or nigra nowadays just like some Caucasians would be insulted to be called cracker, wop, yid, mick, dago, bohunk, canuck, etc.
It takes little to speak with respect about others and those who are unable to wrap their minds around the changes have bigger issues than words to my way of thinking.

 

[Disneypro1]

Agreed to some extent.
Most of my emigrating ancestors were listed as British West Indians at Ellis Island. Times have changed and we either refer to them as Caribbeanites or just by the island now nations they came from. My older sister's birth certificate says she's a "coloured" person, I'm a "Negro", and my youngest sister is an "Afro-American". We were all born in NYC and the changes are merely reflections of the political power our people came to acquire in this country. It was very confusing growing up with all those different labels (my US born grandmother had legal papers denoting her a "nigra"- sigh) and I'm now quite content to be a "Black American". I'll accept some other popular terms but would be veddy annoyed if someone called me "coloured, Negro, or nigra nowadays just like some Caucasians would be insulted to be called cracker, wop, yid, mick, dago, bohunk, canuck, etc.
It takes little to speak with respect about others and those who are unable to wrap their minds around the changes have bigger issues than words to my way of thinking.

Reading that was like watching Archie Bunker and Mr Jefferson word it out. lol. I will say. I have been called a cracker in the USAF. We all called each other humorous names. Lol.

 

[PollyannaMom]

You can hear the 3rd vision by watching an Agatha Christie movie.

I opened this thread thinking it was about the Agatha Christie book.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Reading that was like watching Archie Bunker and Mr Jefferson word it out. lol. I will say. I have been called a cracker in the USAF. We all called each other humorous names. Lol.
Bohunk. Never heard that before. But being from Ohio......Sounds like a West Virginian. Oops. Did I just say that....
Seriously though. Never heard that.

It's not always funny especially when not meant to be when one thinks deeper. That show was meant to wake people up, not excuse the actions and mindset. Guess it failed on that level for some.

I'm sure some people formerly of the Austro-Hungarian Empire settled in WV and OH but I'm more sure people in and near Chicago are familiar with the term. First time I saw it in writing was in a Readers' Digest book about the Johnstown Flood which took place in PA. Workers of Czech, Bulgarian, Hungarian descent and other nearby countries were either lynched or initially blamed for causing the dam to fail. In time it was discovered that the dam breach was caused by the actions of an exclusive fishing club.