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Is it the eensy weensy spider, or the itsy bitsy spider? Which one went up the water spout?
Some days I think I may have lost my mind, just set it down somewhere like a sack of marbles and wandered away from it.
How can I not remember such a little thing like that? (Could it be the sleep deprivation? Or the having eight million other things to remember at all times? Or maybe my brain has run out of space, and nursery rhymes were at the top of the to-go list.) And why does it bother me, not remembering such a trivial little fact? Nothing, I think, depends on my accurately singing the lyrics of a four-line song.
And yet.
Itsy bitsy? Or eensy weensy? I think it’s itsy bitsy.
Better consult the nine-year-old, but my vote’s for itsy-bitsy.
Depends if you’re British or not. Pretty sure the UK sings eensy weensy and American version is itsy bitsy. As a Canadian I guess I can choose whichever way suits me. I follow my daughter and she goes both ways!
Itsy-Bitsy…95% sure.
If the ABC’s, Twinkle Twinkle and Baa Baa Black Sheep weren’t all the same tune, I’d never remember any of them… (words are still subject to be changed/lost/forgotten as I sing)
Canadians have all the fun!
See, I must just be so… travel-savvy… that, uh, I have both versions in my head (says the woman who can’t remember the last time she traveled anywhere).
But it sounds like we have an itsy-bitsy consensus/trend going on here?