I just wanted to comment that songs like this have historical value but are probably not 'performable' [to make up a word] nowadays.

First off, [setting aside the fact that play party songs were originally meant for pre-teens and teeens]it's rare that girls and boys over 6 years of age even play circle {ring} games, or that boys would play them with girls. Even under 6 years old, these games are usually never self-initiated. Pre-school teachers are the ones who usually lead these types of games, and it seems that few of them know more than "Hokey-Pokey" and "Ring around the Rosie."

And kissing? Ha! Even if pre-school and elementary school aged children wanted to do that while they are playing games which they don't, you wouldn't be able to get that passed the Politically Correct folks.

Not to mention that children's circle games have been modified so that the center person accidently picks her replacement. It used to be, for instance, that the girl in the center would sashay over to "the one she loved the best". But now, when these games are played, the center person closes his or her eyes, puts the left hand over the eyes, turns around with the right arm outstretched and finger pointed. The new center person is then the one who is pointed to at the end of the song.

But I found out last week that some elementary school children don't even know once very familiar games like "Little Sally Walker" sittin in the saucer or it's cousing "Little Sally Ann sittin in the sand" ...

Soon the only games that these children may know are computer games and competitive games like baseball, basketball, and football.

Sad.