In the Spring 2025 edition of Jewish Review of Books, I have a new article on the back page, a short but wacky historical exploration of the final songs of the Haggadah, Echad Mi Yodea and Chad Gadya.
Basically, after listening to the a cappella group Home Free’s cover of “Children Go Where I Send Thee” with Kenny Rogers (which sounded uncannily like Echad Mi Yodea), I went down a rabbit hole and found a lot of goats.
https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewish-life/18544/kidnapped-choruses/
Yosef Lindell 
Very cute. Here’s another version of a counting song, but perhaps more recent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Grow_the_Rushes,_O
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Yes, they all seem to be related to each other.
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