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There is a 4-people pattern with quite a long sequence, that one can remember by singing "Frère Jacques" ("Brother John", "Bruder Jakob" etc.) accompanying the pattern. 

German Wikipedia lists the text of several other languages: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A8re_Jacques

The sequence is like this:

<pre class="throw-sequence">
Straight self  self  Straight
Self     left  left  self
Straight right right straight
Self     self  self  self
</pre>

So the first part of the sequence 
<pre class="throw-sequence">
Straight self  self  Straight
</pre>
is connected with "are you sleeping, are you sleeping".

The second sequence 
<pre class="throw-sequence">
Self     left  left  self
</pre>

with "brother John, brother John"

The third
<pre class="throw-sequence">
Straight right right straight
</pre>
with "can't you hear the bells ring, can't you hear the bells ring", 

TZhe fourth 
<pre class="throw-sequence">
Self     self  self  self
</pre>
with "Ding, dang, dong, ding, dang, dong".


Four jugglers are standing in a formation forming a square facing each other. All throws are done from the right hand. 
"Left, straight, right" in the sequence above mean a pass to the juggler in the named relative position to you.

The pattern begins with juggler A having the first sequence, juggler B, who is to the left of juggler A starts with the 2nd sequence, C with the 3rd and D with the last. 

Each juggler singing then progresses through the canon.