Guest My Baby, & Guest Jenny

I just read your comments and want to welcome you to Mudcat Cafe.

Thanks for posting those rhymes!

Hopefully, since you've found this page of street rhymes, you'll come back and see this post. May I ask you to share with us how these rhymes are played {for instance- are they said while doing handclap routines, jumping rope, to pick somebody or get eliminate them from being picked to be "It"? }. Also when you 'performed' these rhymes {such as in the 1990s' or within the last three years etc}, who performed them {such as girls 5-12 years-and their racial or ethnic group? Would you also please let us know what city, state, and nation you're from?

Thanks!

PS: Guest, My Baby-I never heard your rhyme before. When you pick a name and say it, is that the name of the next player, the name of somebody you know {such as a boy who the girl might like?} or is the name really one that the person wants to give to a baby who she will eventually have?

And Guest Jenny:

I just wanted to share with you that "Scooby Doo" is used in a rhyme [from Pittsburgh, PA-African American girls 5-12 years or so around 1990s to now] that starts like this:

Miss Sue,
Scooby Doo
Miss Sue from Alabama...

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Also when I was growing up in New Jersey waaay back in the 1950s, we say She {He} got ants in her pants
and it makes her {him} dance
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The rest of that rhymes sounds new...I like it!

I've heard the Fudge Fudge and Chinese restaurant rhymes before but your versions are different {which is great!}

Please share more rhymes with us!

Ms. Azizi