One for the Money

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"One for the Money" is an English-language children's rhyme. Children have used it as early as the 1820s^[1] to count before starting a race or other activity.^[2][3]

The full rhyme reads as:

One for the money,
Two for the show;
Three to make ready,
And four to go.

In popular music[]

The rhyme has been used or interpolated in popular music since the 1950s. The earliest examples are in the intros of the 1955 songs "Roll Hot Rod Roll" by Oscar McLollie and "Blue Suede Shoes" by Carl Perkins. The latter was further popularized in a version by Elvis Presley released in March 1956 on his eponymous debut album. Since then, many other artists have interpolated the rhyme's lyrics in their songs, mainly in hip hop music, notably "Spoonin' Rap" by Spoonie Gee, "Jussummen" by Das EFX, "Bomdigi" by Erick Sermon, "Elevators (Me & You)" by Outkast, "Anything Goes" by Ras Kass and "Go to Church" by Ice Cube. In pop music, the lyric appears in Taylor Swift's "Champagne Problems" and Lana Del Rey's "Million Dollar Man".^[4] The phrase was also used as the title and in the main hook, with altered lyrics, for the song "One for the Money" by American rock band Escape the Fate.^[5]

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