Etymology of Spanish eeney meeney miney moe (De tin marín de dó pingüé)?

Question

De tin marín de dó pingüé cuca la mácara títere fue, yo no fui, fue teté, pégale pégale que ella fue

I was to know where this came from


Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Wow man, that's a question I think nobody will be able to answer. It's like "al avío, a la bau, a la bim bom bam". It's like child's nonsense for songs. There are a lot of such rhymes/songs for children, and they don't mean a thing. Trust me on that.

Answer 2

Hola
In Britain, children use these words as a counting game to see who will be chosen for (or left out of a game); eeney, meeny, miney, moe are supposed to be the old Druid words for one, two, three, four and whoever was "moe" was chosen for sacrfice at the alter in Stonhenge.