Eenie meenie miney mo, catch a tiger by the toe.
The rhyme in the street: Eenie meenie miney mo, catch a nigger by the toe.
He is then alleged to mumble the phrase: "Catch a n***er by his toe".
In it, he recites the well-known children's rhyme, apparently mumbling, "Catch a n****r by his toe".
There are many versions of the playground rhyme (as it happens, I used to say "catch a tiger by its toe").
In a Top Gear outtake, Clarkson recited the beginning of the children's nursery rhyme "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" before apparently mumbling: "Catch a nigger by his toe".
The Daily Mirror broadcast unaired footage of Clarkson reciting the beginning of the children's nursery rhyme before apparently mumbling: "Catch a nigger by his toe".
In the footage, published on the newspaper's website, Clarkson appears to recite the beginning of the children's nursery rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe... .. before appearing to mumble: "Catch a nigger by his toe".
A week later British TV host Jeremy Clarkson was caught on camera reciting a version of "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" from his childhood ("before racism was bad" as The Office's David Brent once put it) in which he continues muttering "catch a nigger by the toe".
Clarkson was forced to apologise on Thursday night, when he asked viewers for forgiveness following the revelation of a clip of him reciting the nursery rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe; catch a nigger by the toe" in unaired footage obtained by the Daily Mirror.
