A call and response rhyme where the child echoes 'Just like me' to a string of increasingly odd claims, ending in a monkey at the window. It turns reading aloud into a proper duet.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
"I went up one pair of stairs."
"Just like me."
"I went up two pairs of stairs."
"Just like me."
"I went into a room."
"Just like me."
"I looked out of a window."
"Just like me."
"And there I saw a monkey."
"Just like me."
About this rhyme
A call-and-response catch rhyme
This is a catch rhyme, a small trick played with words. One person says each line and the other answers 'Just like me' every time, up the stairs, into a room, over to the window. It goes along nicely until the last line, when saying 'Just like me' means agreeing that you too are a monkey. It has been passed round nurseries and playgrounds for generations and printed in old rhyme collections.
You need two people, so it is a game for you and a child together, or for two children. Teach them the answer first: whatever I say, you say 'Just like me'. Keep a straight face all the way down. The whole thing lives or dies on the last line, so do not rush to it. Let them fall into it.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition