"One, Two, Three, Four, Five" (also known as "1, 2, 3, 4, 5" or "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I Caught a Fish Alive" in other versions) is a nursery rhyme and counting-out rhyme.[1] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13530.[2] A common modern version is: One, two, three, four, five, Once I caught a fish alive.It was first recorded in Mother Goose's Melody around 1765.Like most versions until the late 19th century, it had only the first stanza and dealt with a hare, not a fish: The modern version is derived from three variations collected by Henry Bolton in the 1880s from America.
Illustration of the poem from the 1901
Book of Nursery Rhymes
