In Queens, NY, where I grew up, it was used as an elimination game, with each word (at the end, letter) pointing to a different kid: “Eenie meenie, minee moe, catch a tiger by the toe, if he hollers let him go! My mo-ther says to pick this one and out goes Y-O-U!”
If this landed on a kid you liked, who you didn’t want to eliminate, and you could get away with it, you would add “P-U”, so the eliminatee would be two spaces down.
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