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Thread #8560   Message #1929063
Posted By: Azizi
07-Jan-07 - 08:51 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Playmates 'slide down my cellar door'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playmates 'slide down my cellar door'
Here's three versions of Playmate from http://streetplay.com/discus/

1.
Cee Cee my playmate,
come out and play with me
and bring your dollies three,
climb up my apple tree.
Slide down my rainbow
into my cellar door
and we'll be jolly friends
forever more more, shut the door!
-mulfig on Saturday, May 29, 1999 - 10:46 pm; Streetplay.com Discussion: Girl Games: Clap & rhyme;Archive through June 8, 2000

2.

"Here was our version of "Say say my enemy"

say say my enemy, come out and fight with me,
and bring your swords three...
climb up my cactus? tree,
slide down my razor blade, into a bowl of alchohal,
and we'll be the very worst enemies of them all... all... all."
-Anonymous on Saturday, April 22, 2000 - 03:34 am ; Streetplay.com Discussion: Girl Games: Clap & rhyme;Archive through June 8, 2000

3.

See see my baby
I cannot play with you
For I have got the flu
Chicken pox and measles too
We slid down drainpipes
In 1952
And we'll be best of friends
For ever more, more, shut that door, eat that rat
that's on that floor!
-By Anonymous on Friday, April 7, 2000 - 01:43 pm;
Streetplay.com Discussion: Girl Games: Clap & rhyme: Shimmy Shimmy Cocoa Pop

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With regards to the ending line "shut the door" [in the first version and the third version presented here]- in another rhyme, I've seen handclap partners try to be the first one to flick {lightly slap] their partner on the forehead or pinch their handclap partner on the arm while saying these words...
Both girls would quickly try to do this and also lean backwards so they wouldn't be flicked [or pinched].

I'm curious if anyone else remembers or have currently seen these action being done while saying the end line "shut the door" in Playmate or another children's rhyme.