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Old Tommy Kendall (Collected by Kenneth Peacock)
See also: This Old Man (Buddy Wasisname Parody)

This old pickan' he went one,
And he went knick-knack up again' me thumb;
To me knick-knack padlock. kickin' up a song,
And old Tommy Kendall came a-joggin' along.

This old pickan' he went two,
And he went knick-knack up again' me shoe;
To me knick-knack padlock. kickin' up a song,
And old Tommy Kendall came a-joggin' along.

This old pickan' he went three,
And he went knick-knack up again' me knee;
To me knick-knack padlock. kickin' up a song,
And old Tommy Kendall came a-joggin' along.

This old pickan' he went four,
And he went knick-knack up again' me door;
To me knick-knack padlock. kickin' up a song,
And old Tommy Kendall came a-joggin' along.

This old pickan' he went five,
And he went knick-knack right to the hive;
To me knick-knack padlock. kickin' up a song,
And old Tommy Kendall came a-joggin' along.

This old pickan' he went six,
And he went knick-knack pickin' up sticks;
To me knick-knack padlock. kickin' up a song,
And old Tommy Kendall came a-joggin' along.

This old pickan' he went seven,
And he went knick-knack right up to heaven;
To me knick-knack padlock. kickin' up a song,
And old Tommy Kendall came a-joggin' along.

This old pickan' he went eight,
And he went knick-knack oh so straight;
To me knick-knack padlock. kickin' up a song,
And old Tommy Kendall came a-joggin' along.

This old pickan' he went nine,
And he went knick-knack right behind;
To me knick-knack padlock. kickin' up a song,
And old Tommy Kendall came a-joggin' along.

This old pickan' he went ten,
And he went knick-knack right to the hen;
To me knick-knack padlock. kickin' up a song,
And old Tommy Kendall came a-joggin' along.

####.... Author unknown. Variant of a popular children's counting rhyme, This Old Man ....####

This variant collected in 1959 from Mrs. Charlotte Decker of Parson's Pond, NL, by Kenneth Peacock and published in Songs Of The Newfoundland Outports, Volume 1, p.21, by the National Museum of Canada (1965) Crown Copyrights Reserved.

Kenneth Peacock noted that a fragment of this nursery rhyme called Jack Jintle was noted by Anne G. Gilchrist from her Welsh nursemaid, Elizabeth Piercy, in the 1870s and was printed in the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, III, No. 2, 1937, pp.124-125.

A variant also appears in Frank Kidson's [1855-1926] 100 Singing Games, Old, New, and Adapted (London and Glasgow, 1916).

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