Azizi writes:

I've collected a lot of rhymes from children in the Pittsburgh, Penn area of the United States and other places. You may want to add this rhyme to your online collection. I haven't seen it published anywhere.

BANANA SPLIT

Category: Elimination Game
Source: girls & boys; ages 6-12 years from the Auburn Terrace after school program ; 2001; Collected by AP, 2001 .

Directions: Children stand in circle and begin to chant in unison. After the last line of the unison chant (i.e.“2, 4, 6”), one child quickly says “1”, and the child standing next to him or her in clockwise position says “2”, and so on, making sure not to say the number “5” or any number with “5” in it. Any child who says “5” or any number with “5” in it (such as “15” or “25” is out of the game. Children who take too long to say the correct number are also out of the game. The object of the game is to be alert enough to say the next consecutive number, making sure to skip saying “5” or a number with “5” in it. The last child in the game is the winner.

Banana Split,
It makes me sick.
Oogah laggah
Oogah laggah
2, 4, 6
If you say 5 you’re out of the game.
Oogah laggah
Oogah laggah
2, 4, 6

Because the counting could go on forever, players may want to decide ahead of time which number ends the game.

Note the similarity to the first two lines of “Banana Split” and the first two lines of “Apple On A Stick, a handclap rhyme that I collected in 2002 from Clairton, a town near Pittsburgh.

Here is that version of "Apple on A Stick":

Apples on the stick
make me sick.
Make my heart go
Two forty six
Not because I’m dirty
Not because I’m clean
Not because I kissed a boy
Behind a magazine.
-snip-

Also see this version of "Apple On A Stick"

Apple On A Stick, Version 1
Apples on a stick
Make me sick
Makes my tummy go
Two Forty-six
Not because its dirty
Not because its clean
Not because I kissed my mommy
Behind the magazines
Girls, girls
Do you want to fight?
Here comes Dickey
With her pants on tight
She can wiggle
She can woggle
She can do all that
I bet you ten dollars
You can do this
Count to ten with your eyes closed
A-baby one
A-baby two
A-baby three, four, five
Baby, I don’t take no jive.
A-baby six
A-baby seven
A-baby eight, nine, ten
You better back it up and do it again

(Michels, Barbara & White, Bettye, Apples On A Stick, The Folklore of Black Children, New York, Coward-
McCann, Inc., 1983; p.11 preface notes that theses rhymes were collectd from children at a Catholic school in Houston, Texas ; No Directions provided)