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Thread #102055 Message #2509249
Posted By: Susan of DT
06-Dec-08 - 06:11 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Play Ground Hand Jives
Subject: RE: Folklore: Play Ground Hand Jives
I put Dutch Girl in the DT, with the motions, quite a long time ago:
I AM A PRETTY LITTLE DUTCH GIRL
I am a pretty little Dutch girl As pretty as pretty can be And all the boys around my way Go crazy over me
My boyfriend's name was fatty He comes from Cincinnati With a pimple on his nose And three black toes And this is how my story goes
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This was a clapping game in Brooklyn in the '50s The motions were as follows: two girls sat facing each other within clapping distance clap self, clap right hands, clap self, clap left hands, clap both hands with other, hands on own shoulders, clap on own knees, repeat. There are more verses @kids filename[ DUTCHGRL SOF
I don't know the shop verse Azizi quoted, but do know the rest, but
One day when I was walking, I saw my true love talking, To a pretty little girl With a strawberry curl, And this is what he said: I L-O-V-E love you All the T-I-M-E time, And I'll K-I-S-S kiss you Tomorrow night at nine.
Lulu had a Steamboat is also in the DT, along with some other "teaser somes", but they did not have motions, nor were used for jumprope or ball.
A my name is Alice was a ball bouncing rhyme and I think the ball went under the leg at the last word of the line.
I don't remember what we did with: Oh they don't wear pants On the other side of France But they do wear grass Just to cover up their ass...
We did ball bouncing to: I saw London, I saw France I saw ________'s underpants Are they white? Are they pink? I don't know, but they sure stink
Brooklyn in the 1950s Azizi - I looked up your profile - we are almost exactly the same age. I don't know why I thought you were younger.