Lyr Req: Playground songs

Subject: !!!SONGS!!!
From: GUEST,Tasha
Date: 23 Dec 07 - 01:36 PM

A,B,C,D
you cant diss me
yo momma
yo gramma
yo dad works like a farmer
whats that i hear you want a tick tack?
not one, not two but the whole big pack
you got dissed!
you got dissed!
and now your gonna get pissed!

lol................

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,jl
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 05:42 PM

Not last night but the night before
Twenty-four robbers came knockin' at my door
I ran out
They ran in
And this is what they said:
Spanish dancer can you kick
Spanish dancer do the splits
Spanish dancer turn around
Spanish dancer touch the ground.

Subject: Old playground song
From: GUEST,183756823%Diva
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 07:26 PM

Oh Gosh Shes Crazy:

Oh gosh she crazy
Oh gosh she crazy

Take a piece
Take a plum
Take a piece of bubble gum
No piece, no plum, no piece of bubble gum

I like coffee
I like tea
I like a color boy and he likes me
So step that white boy you don't shine
I'll take you 'round the corner and beat ya behind

Last night, the night befo'
I met my boyfriend at the candystore
He bought me ice-creme, he bought me cake
He bout me home with a stomach ache

I say momma momma I feel sick
Cal the doctor quick quick quick
Doctor doctor if I die, I'll close my eyes and I'll count to 5
1,2,...3,4,5

See that house on top of that hill
Thats where me and my boyfriend live
Cook that chicken, stir that rice
C'mon baby lets shoot some dice

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,Kera
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 08:10 PM

Down here:

Down in (insert city)
Where the blue grass grow
Where the crickets crow
Where it snows in September and it rains in November
Where you're scared of flies and you run from hives
Where you talk like this and you scream this
Where you walk and talk like an aardvark
Where you ran and danced like a caveman
Where sneaked and peaked just like a bee
Now 1,2,3....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: Azizi
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 10:14 PM

Thanks GUEST,183756823%Diva, for posting that "Oh gosh she crazy" rhyme. I'm assuming that this rhyme was/is recited while girls do partner handclaps. I'm also assuming that the entire post as you wrote it is one rhyme. Am I right about these assumptions?

If you read this, would you please let people reading this thread {series of comments} know where and when you learned this version of this rhyme {what city/state if you're living in the USA or what city/country if you are living outside the USA} and when you learned it {such as 2008 or mid 1990s}. Thanks!

**

Thanks also GUEST,Kera {perhaps you and GUEST,183756823%Diva are the same person?} for posting that Down here rhyme. The beginning of that rhyme reminds me of the jump rope or ball bouncing rhyme:

Down in the valley where the blue grass grows
there sat {girl's name} as sweet as a rose.
She sang, she sang, she sang so sweet
along came {boy's name} and swept her off her feet.
How many kisses did she get?
Ah one Ah two Ah three
{keep counting until you miss}.

-snip-

Kera, would you please answer the same questions that I asked GUEST,183756823%Diva:

1. What kind of rhyme is this {for instance is it a handclap rhyme, or a jump rope rhyme, or a ball bouncing rhyme or all of these, or do you do other movements while you recite it?}

2. Where do you live {In which city/state did you learn this rhyme?}

3. When did you learn this rhyme {what year, or decade?}

Also, it would be great if you would share information about who recites this rhyme-for instance, are they recited by girls only?, what are the ages of the girls? and what is the race or races of the girls who recite this rhyme?

Answers to these questions will be helpful to folklorists and other people interested in children's rhymes who gather information about the kinds of rhymes children recite, and how the words and play activities of children's rhymes might change over time, among different people, and in different places.

Thanks again,

Azizi

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,nikolajayne
Date: 05 Feb 08 - 06:46 AM

My Nanna has sung this song to me since i was a little girl. She & her friends used to sing it whilst skipping. Somebody left a version of it that begins the same on feb 21st 2000 but her version goes like this:
On a mountain stands a lady
who she is i do not know
All she wants is gold and silver
All she wants is a nice young man
So come in my (boys name) dear,
(boys name) dear, (boys name) dear.
So come in my (boys name) dear,
while we go out to play.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,nikolajayne
Date: 05 Feb 08 - 07:15 AM

I've just remembered a handclap song from my own childhood. It goes like this:
Si si (or Cissy?) my platmate
come out and play with me
under the apple tree
for all the world to see.
Slide down the drainpipe
and through the cellar door
and we'll be happy friends
forever more, more, more more more.

I grew up & still live in Lincolnshire in England by the way as has my nanna all her life. We're both white british. She was born in 1929 & learnt the skipping song i previously posted as a child & I was born in 1980.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 05 Feb 08 - 09:00 AM

I seem to remember :

Abracadabra, King of the Jews
Wiped his arse on the Manchester Evening News.

Abracadabra, King of the Jews
Bought his wife a pair of shoes.
When the shoes began to wear
Abracadabra began to swear.
When the swear began to stop
Abracadabra bought a shop.
When the shop began to sell
Abracadabra bought a bell.
When the bell began to ring
Abracadabra began to sing :
Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, te, do
I lost my knickers in the snow.
If anyone finds them let me know -
Do, te, la, so, fa, mi, re, do.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 05 Feb 08 - 09:05 AM

Just remembered another couple of daft ones :

In the merry month of Liverpool
In the city of July
The snow was raining heavily
But the streets were very dry.
The elephant is a bonny bird
Which flies from bough to bough.
It makes its nest in rhubarb trees
And whistles like a cow.

I went to the pictures tomorrow
I got a front seat at the back.
A lady gave me a banana
I ate it and gave it her back.
I went round a straight crooked corner
And saw a dead donkey alive
So I pulled out a knife and I killed it
And that's how the dead donkey died.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: Forsh
Date: 05 Feb 08 - 08:38 PM

A 'Choosing' Rhyme:
Icky-Ackie, Hores Cackie, Icky Ackie-OUT!

Om Pompeii
Cally-ey
Cally oski
Om Pompeii
Cally-ey
Mr Turnip
Apple Turnip
Mr Turnip
Boom boom.

This is the way the teacher stands, she folds her arms & claps her hand, this is the way the teacher stands, WHOOPS yer auntie mary-o

pm me your E mail, and I will send you an MP3 of my Dad & Mates (Rumbylowe) doing a great track called "Skipping Rhymes" It is rather excellent!, as Aussie Folkies in the know will vouch!

ALSO LOOK HERE! For some great ones.
Dave (Forsh)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 09:33 PM

"Margiutte,(sp?) go wash your feet"... is from a book by Wallace Trip with the same name. There are a lot of poems in there, and were collected from Emily Dickenson, Grocho Marxx, and a few other comedians, as well as just an awesomely funny book with colorful illustrations!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,Brenna
Date: 21 Jul 08 - 07:13 PM

Our version was a little different of the playmate song. I was born in 1966 in Kansa City, Missouri. Our version was:

Say say oh playmate
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree.
Slide down my rain barrel
Into my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends
For ever more more, shut the door.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,carrie-anne and Joy
Date: 17 Aug 08 - 01:23 PM

boys got the muscles teachers got the brains
girls got the sexy legs so hear we go again

we got to bow to the king and kirtsie to the queen
show youre knickers to the football team

you got to hypmatize paralize
turn around an faint

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,Jess
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 07:27 PM

Gloucestershire, UK, in the early 1990s...

A couple of 'choosing' rhymes that haven't been mentioned here. We'd use them to work out who was going to be 'on' in another game.

eeny meeny miny mo,
catch a tigger by its toe
if it squeals, let him go,
eeny meeny miny mo.

--

ibble obble black bobble
ibble obble out
turn the dirty dishcloth inside out
O-U-T spells out!

--

One potato, two potato, three potato, four
five potato, six potato, seven potato more!

(I think the person on 'more' would be out..)

--
(some lines missing, about meeting someone and being asked:)
tell me the colours of the union jack
red, white or blue?
(person would choose one, and one of these rhymes would be used, then back to the chorus and another choice)
Red is the colour of danger, danger, danger,
Red is the colour of danger, so out go you!
White is the colour of marriage, marriage, marriage,
White is the colour of marriage, so out go you!
Blue is the colour of the sea, the sea, the sea,
Blue is the colour of the sea, so out go you!
--
Also had a clapping game

I went to a chinese restaurant
to buy a loaf of bread bread bread
He wrapped it up in a five-pound note
and this is what they said said said:

My name is Ben Down [bend down]
Touch your knees [touch knees]
Eyes like a Japanese [make 'slitty eyes', yes we were racially insensitive]
Hair like a billy goat
Show off your petticoat

I can do the tango
I can do the twist [dance]
I can do a handstand
Just like this [do handstand]

Queens go curtsey
Kings go bow
Boys go [kiss kiss noises]
Girls go 'wow!' [lift up skirt]

---

Another clapping game involved two players holding oppsite hands and clapping their other hands together, above [on 'high'] and below [on 'low'] and on top of [on 'chicka'] their joint hands.

high low chicka low
chicka low high low
high low chicka low
chicka low high!

I'd love to know what that means!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,Jess
Date: 24 Sep 08 - 07:46 PM

A skipping game we would spend a long time playing was working out your future:
WHO
tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor
rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief

Then alphabet to find out his initial..

WHEN
this year, next year, sometime, never
this year, next year, sometime, never

WHERE
church, chapel, stable, pigsty
church, chapel, stable, pigsty

CLOTHES
silk, satin, cotton, nothing
silk, satin, cotton, nothing

HOW MANY...?
kisses - counting
children - counting

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,Becky
Date: 22 Apr 09 - 03:13 AM

Hi, i don't suppose anyone remembers a rhyme that had the line 'ate all the cookies, threw him out the window' ?

it may have something my classmates made up that year, but i remember it was quite long and funny, just cant think of it.

Any ideas??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 22 Apr 09 - 05:15 AM

BECKY -

Perhaps, you are looking for "Threw Them Out the Window" - only four references in all the Forum for it. Joe Offer notes it in the Scout thread - it also shows up here:
http://mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=205780

Kids have a rightous good time with it the first time they hear it.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

(I am surprised at the dearth of discussion regarding it)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,HelpfulHints
Date: 07 Aug 09 - 09:41 AM

Here's some playground songs that me and my friends used to do ALL the time:

Teacher, Teacher I dispare,
I can see your underwear,
are they black or are they white,
Oh my gosh they're dynamite!

Kick the tables kick the chairs,
kick the school boys down the stairs,
give the boys a kiss on the lips,
then run off with the dinner chips!

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Get someone else to make this work.

The overall clapping rythmn is left hand up (palm facing down) and right hand down (palm facing up) then clap hands with your partner still with the same hand pattern. Then do it again but with your right hand up and palm facing down and left hand down palm facing up, then clap your hands together and keep repeating.


Miss Muff (clap clap clap)
Miss Muff (clap clap clap)
Miss Muff from California,
Sitting on the bench,
learning French,
watching the clock go,
Tick Tock, (put hands together and move them side to side)
Tick Tock, (put hands together and move them side to side)
Curly Wurly, (hand spin)
Tick Tock,
Tick Tock,
Curly Wurly!
A,B,C,D,E,F,G (clap hands in time with saying Alhpabet)
Wipe those cobwebs off your knees, (wipe knees like the song cha cha slide when he says "Hand's on your knees")

The girls in spain washing kinickers down the drain, (look like your scrubbing)
And the boys in France do the hula hula dance, (hula dance)
And the dance they do is enough to tie a shoe, (point to shoe)
And the shoe they tie is enough to tell a lie, (look like you're telling someone off)
And the lie they tell is enough to ring a bell, (look like you're ringing a bell)
And the bell they ring goes "Ding-A-Ling- A-Ling!"

Hope they brighten up your day!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,Imogen.
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 05:34 PM

Miss muff *clap clap clap*
miss muff *clap clap clap*
miss muff from california
sitting on a bench learning french (pretend to read book)
watching the clock go
tick tock tick tock banana's (clock motions with hands together)
tick tock tick tock banana's ( "                              ")
A, B, C, D, E, F, G
wipe them cobwebs of your knees. (pretends to wipe cobwebs)
all the girls in spain wash their knickers in the drain (slaps hip)
all the boys in france do the hula hula dance (hula dance)
and the dance they do is enough to tie a shoe (point to shoe)
and a shoe they tie is enough to tell a lie (waggle finger)
and the lie they tell is enough to ring a bell (pretend to ring bell)
and the bell they ring goes ( "         ")
DING A LING A LING. (grab friends shoulder and shake back and forth)

<3

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,me to you another version of Si Si my playma
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:40 AM

Si Si my play mate
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree
slide down my rainbow
into to my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends
Forevermore, more, more, more...
2nd verse:
I'm sorry playmate
I cannot play with you
My Dolly has the flu
She spit up in my shoe
I have no rainbow
I have no cellar door
Buy we'll be jolly friends
Forevermore, more, more, more...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 08:12 AM

One I often heard as a kid in school in Ireland, I'll Tell Me Ma
'I'll tell me ma when I get home
the boys won't leave the girls alone'
Think it originates from Belfast. but very popular in Kilkenny where I went to school. Usually chanted by girls while playing Hoppscotch, good folk club song too

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: muppett
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:45 AM

There's A party on the hill, will you come (yes)?
Bring yer own cup and saucer and a bun (yes)?
Who is your very best friend (a name)?
(a name ) will be there throwing peanuts in the air, so how many did s/he throw?
(Think of a number e.g. 5)
1 2 3 4 5
So you do not have it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,Claudiaa(:
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 07:41 AM

Okay these are the ones I use to clap to with my mates (:

I went to a Chinese restaurant to buy a loaf of bread bread bread (*clap 3 times)
The lady at the counter was standing on her head head head (Clap 3 times)
She asked me what my name was and this is what i said said said ( clap 3 times)
My name is.......
Eli Eli chickeli chickeli ooey gooey (imitate chicken three times) chinese crackers cheese on toast
put them in the oven with a.......
POKE POKE POKE!! :D
Another claping song was called was one we played called dum dum dare

dum dum dare
dum dum dewalli walli
sissi air sissi
dewalli walli
mini mini acka
mini mini air
mini mini acka
mini mini air
coco pops
coco pops
coco pops
CRACK!

and this one ( clapping game sung fast)

double double this this
double double that that
double this
double that
double double this that

another clapping game
Mrs Mary Mack Mack Mack
all dressed in black black black
with silver buttons buttons buttons
all down her back back back
She asked her mother mother mother
for fifty cents cents cents
to see an elephant elephant elephant
jump over the fence fence fence
He jumped so high high high
he reached the sky sky sky
and didn't come back back back
til the fourth of July ly ly

and also this clapping game (:
A-B-C
we're going up
we're going down
we're going
criss cross
lollipop
bunny hop
karate chop
turn around
touch the ground
pull the chain
start again!


As for the mickey mouse one we used these ones

Mickey Mouse
In his house
Pulling on his trousers
They fall down
they hit the ground
What colour is his bum?
[person landed on]-said a colour (red)
Other kids chant one at a time- R-e-d spells red!
whoever the last letter landed on was out of the circle

Another version that we use to sing and clap to..
Mickey mouse
had a house what colour was it?

when the movie started
mickey mouse farted
what colour was his gas?

also the helicopter one.. but it hurt if you didnt jump and were hit by the rope ahah

A bit late but hope this helps (: xx

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Playground songs
From: GUEST,natalie
Date: 06 Jul 11 - 01:41 PM

i went to a Chinese to buy a loaf of bread he rap it up in five pound note and this is what he said my name is elvis presly boys are sexy sitig in the back sit drinking pepsi

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: in the merry month of liverpool
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jan 13 - 04:39 PM