Dear Sweet-love, I shall leave links verifying my hyphen is acceptable and that there is indeed a well known variation of the rhyme containing the word "nigger".
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/here-by
-and-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe
(scroll down to the history section)
PS. Starting a sentence with "And" while in the process of trying to nit-pick somebody's grammar is incredibly stupid.
Jesus wept indeed.