Two Times One
Two Times One
Two Times One
Nursery Rhyme
Nursery Rhyme
(Historical Black American English)
(English)
Two times one is two.
Won't you jes keep still till I gits through?
Three times three is nine.
You 'tend to yō' business, an' I'll 'tend to mine.
Two times one is two.
Won't you just keep still till I get through?
Three times three is nine.
You 'tend to your business, and I'll attend to mine.
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This rhyme can be found in Negro Folk Rhymes, Wise and Otherwise, with a Study by Thomas W. Talley of Fisk University (1922).
Standard English version by Lisa Yannucci.
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