En Den Dino

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"En Den Dino"
Nursery rhyme

En Den Dino is an Israeli counting rhyme. It was featured on an episode of Sesame Street. It's an Israeli version of the Eeny, meeny, miny, moe counting method. [1] [2]

A variant of the song is also popular in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia. The lyrics in this version are as follows: "En ten tini, sava raka tini, sava raka tika taka, bija baja bum, trif traf truf.".

The lyrics are: "En den dino, sofal(e/a) katino, sofale kati kato(k), elik belik bom", and some add another verse that goes (translation in italics) "bom bom bom, ptah et ha'albom (open the album), sham tire oti (there you'll see me), beyom huladeti (on my birthday), ti ti ti, achoti (my sister), ha'melech Amar (the king said), lispor ad 10 (to count to 10), 1,2,3..". There are also local variants, and another popular counting game called Ey Si Matrico/Qua Qua De La Oma with several variants of its own.

References

  1. ↑ "The source of the song En Den Dino | Gershon-Lehrer.be". Gershon-Lehrer.be. 31 August 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  2. ↑ Jornada, La. "Discos Putumayo muestra una Navidad con espíritu blusero – La Jornada". www.jornada.unam.mx. Retrieved 7 February 2017.

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