Bedbugs & Beetles, or Skeeters?...

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My daughter came home from pre-school singing a turtle song with a familiar tune. The tune came from a song I used to hear a lot back when I was in the second grade. I tried to google it to find the "official" lyrics, only to learn there seems to be no official lyrics - every version I found on the internet seemed to be noticeably different. So, I decided to post it as I remember it:

I woke up Sunday morning
I looked up on the wall
The beetles (or skeeters) and the bed bugs
Were playing a game of ball

The score was six to nothing
The beetles (or skeeters) were ahead
The bed bugs hit a home run
And knocked me out of bed!

I'm singing Eenie meenie and a...
Minie mo mo mo mo
Catch a whippa-whoppa
By the toe, and if he...
Hollers hollers hollers
Let him go. I'm singing
Eenie meenie and a... Minie mo!

I wend downstairs for breakfast
They served me bacon and eggs
I ate up all the bacon
The eggs ran down my legs!

I'm singing Eenie meenie and a...
Minie mo mo mo mo
Catch a whippa-whoppa
By the toe, and if he...
Hollers hollers hollers
Let him go. I'm singing
Eenie meenie and a... Minie mo!

My mother is a baker
My father cuts up meat
And I'm a little hot-dog
Running down the street!

I'm singing Eenie meenie and a...
Minie mo mo mo mo
Catch a whippa-whoppa
By the toe, and if he...
Hollers hollers hollers
Let him go. I'm singing
Eenie meenie and a... Minie mo!

I jumped into the sewer
And that's where I will die
Some people call it murder
But I call it sewer-cide!

I'm singing Eenie meenie and a...
Minie mo mo mo mo
Catch a whippa-whoppa
By the toe, and if he...
Hollers hollers hollers
Let him go. I'm singing
Eenie meenie and a... Minie mo!