AllMusic editor Andrew Hamilton constated that Penny Ford's "telling vocal and the story line" on the song make it "the most accessible cut" on the World Power album. Larry Flick from Billboard complimented it as a "fairly appealing hip-houser". Push from Melody Maker viewed it as "funky". Another editor, Andrew Smith described it as "pure European house", "on the acceptable, if rather bland". Pan-European magazine Music & Media declared it as an "irresistable, [sic] nervous dance track based on a wicked, sticking tune." James Hamilton from Music Week called it a nursery rhyme paraphrasing singalong". Timmy Mallett reviewed the song for Smash Hits, commenting, "This is really good." He added, "It's the sort of record I'd dance to, but it does sound as though they're scraping the barrel by doing what is basically a nursery rhyme."
