Lyr Req: Chorus: rickety rackety roo roo roo

Subject: Lyr Req: Chorus: rickety rackety roo roo roo
From: GUEST,JanPattersonRN
Date: 08 Feb 19 - 11:16 PM

I remember a song my mother used to sing to us. It's possibly Pete Seeger or Oscar Brand or Jean Ritchie, but I don't remember now, just that she sang it about the same time she sang the songs from Golden Slumbers: Lullabies from Far and Near, so in the mid-late 50s. The whole chorus is

Hey don dalicky rilicky ralicky rickety rackety roo roo roo

and I feel like it's a song about "As I was going to [someplace for something] rickety rackety roo roo roo I met an old woman who [something something[ hey done dalicky rilicky ralicky rickety rackety roo roo roo" but I can't remember the verses for the life of me.

Anyone? I'd love to find it if I can.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chorus: rickety rackety roo roo roo
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Feb 19 - 03:00 AM

Sounds a bit like ' The Wee Cooper O' Fife '


Dave H

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chorus: rickety rackety roo roo roo
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Feb 19 - 03:28 AM

You, sir, are a life-saver. So it is, The Wee Cooper O' Fife. THANK YOU.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chorus: rickety rackety roo roo roo
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 09 Feb 19 - 09:15 AM

I grew up with a recording of The Wee Cooper o' Fife
sung by Burl Ives, with that chorus.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chorus: rickety rackety roo roo roo
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 19 - 05:28 PM

Nickety Nackety Now Now Now

-S-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chorus: rickety rackety roo roo roo
From: GUEST,threelegsoman
Date: 10 Feb 19 - 03:32 AM

As suggested by wysiwyg, the song Pete Seeger would have sung would be an Ameican take on the Wee Cooper o' Fife under the title of "Nickety Nackety Now Now Now" a version of which I uploaded to YouTube some time ago:
Nickety Nackety Now Now Now

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chorus: rickety rackety roo roo roo
From: goatfell
Date: 10 Feb 19 - 05:52 AM

Nickty nackte noo noo noo

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chorus: rickety rackety roo roo roo
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Feb 19 - 09:14 AM

I think the Nickety I heard was Carla Sciaky. Took a bit to dig back thru the brain clog to pin it on her.

~Susan