Akka_bakka_bonka_rakka
Akka bakka bonka rakka
Norwegian nursery rhyme
Akka bakka bonka rakka is a Norwegian nursery rhyme of mostly nonsense words used to select or point out a participant in children's games, such as who will be "it" in a game like hide-and-seek (Norwegian: gjemsel) or tag (Norwegian: sisten).[1][2]
It is classified as a counting rhyme in Nora Kobberstad's Norsk Lekebok (Book of Norwegian Games) from 1901.[3]
There are different versions of the rhyme. The following version was recorded in Elverum in the early 1920s by Sigurd Nergaard:[4]
- Akka bakka,
- banka ranka,
- etla metla, sang dang,
- fil i fang, isa, bisa, topp!
In 1936, it was included in a collection of children's rhymes published by Rikka Deinboll:[5]
- Akka bakka bonka rakka
- etla metla sjong dong
- fili fong
- issa bissa topp
Finn Myrvang reproduced it in 1964 in a version from Andøya:[6]
- Akka bakka bonka rakka, issa bissa topp.
- Sjong dong filifong, stékk om stein - stå!
A later version, published by the Children's Book Club (Bokklubbens barn), has the following form:[7]
- Akka bakka
- bonka rakka,
- etla metla
- sjong dong,
- filifjong
- issa bissa topp