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Thread #70195   Message #1199788
Posted By: YorkshireYankee
03-Jun-04 - 09:07 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells...
Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells
None... in T-H-A-T.

Similar to one I learned as a kid: 'Raggedy rascal reach for the stars, can you spell that without any Rs?'

Red leather yellow leather...

As one pink porpoise popped into the pool, the other pink porpoise popped out (chorus: Glory, glory etc as above)

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear / Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair / Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?


Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously.
For Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be.
(Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly in "Singing in the rain")

A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.

Betty Botter bought some butter but she said the butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter. So, she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter and she put it in her batter and her batter wasn't bitter. So 'twas good that Betty Botter bought some better butter.

And here's a song; I've found some other versions on Mudcat, but they're different from mine, so here's the version I know (learned it at camp, of course):

Eddie GootchaGatchaGammaNosamaraNosatokaSammaKammaWak-kee Brown
WHO? Eddie GootchaGatchaGammaNosamaraNosatokaSammaKammaWak-kee Brown
Fell into the well, fell into the well, fell into the deep, dark well

Suzy Brown, playin' in the yard / Heard him fall, and ran to tell her Ma that, Eddie etc...

Suzy's Ma, makin' cracklin' bread / Heard her call, and ran to tell Old Joe that...

Then Old Joe, sittin' on the porch / Grabbed his cane, and ran to town to tell that...

When the town turned out to see the well / What a shame, it took so long to say his name that
Eddie GootchaGatchaGammaNosamaraNosatokaSammaKammaWak-kee Brown
WHO?   Eddie GootchaGatchaGammaNosamaraNosatokaSammaKammaWak-kee Brown
DROWNED!