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Like&subscribe 👍🙏💖🥳 a common version is given in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes:

One, two, buckle my shoe;
Three, four, knock at the door;
Five, six, pick up sticks;
Seven, eight, lay them straight;
Nine, ten, a big fat hen;
Eleven, twelve, dig and delve;
Thirteen, fourteen, maids a-courting;
Fifteen, sixteen, maids in the kitchen;
Seventeen, eighteen, maids in waiting;
Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty.[1]
Other sources give differing lyrics.[2]

Origins and variations

In his The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children (1888), the American collector of folklore, Henry Carrington Bolton (1843-1903), quoted an old lady who remembered a longer version of this rhyme as being used in Wrentham, Massachusetts as early as 1780. Beyond the first four lines, it proceeded:

Nine, ten, kill a fat hen;
Eleven, twelve, bake it well;
Thirteen, fourteen, go a-courtin;
Fifteen, sixteen, go to milkin’;
Seventeen, eighteen, do the bakin’;
Nineteen, twenty, the mill is empty;
Twenty-one, change the gun;
Twenty-two, the partridge flew;
Twenty-three, she lit on a tree;
Twenty-four, she lit down lower….
Twenty-nine, the game is mine;
Thirty, make a kerchy.
Some of the final lines Bolton's informant could no longer remember.[3]

In the UK the rhyme was first recorded in Songs for the Nursery, published in London in 1805. This version differed beyond the number twelve, with the lyrics:

Thirteen, fourteen, draw the curtain,
Fifteen sixteen, the maid's in the kitchen,
Seventeen, eighteen, she's in waiting,
Nineteen, twenty, my stomach's empty.[1]
A version published five years later in Gammer Gurton's Garland (1810) was titled "Arithmetick" and had the following different lines:

Three, four, lay down lower ...
Eleven twelve, who will delve...
Fifteen, sixteen, maids a-kissing...
Nineteen, twenty, my belly's empty.[1]
In 1842, James Orchard Halliwell recorded "Shut the door" at the close of the second line.[4]

In April 2023, a viral TikTok video was reported that used a topical variation of the song's lyrics:

Three, four, buckle some more;
Five, six, Nike kicks.[5][6]