Subject: RE: Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, I Bit the Teacher's Toe!
From:
GUEST,another college student
Date: 18 May 07 - 07:06 AM
Honolulu, HI. Most between '94-'99 unless noted.
Hand-clap games:
Miss 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 fifteen cents, cents, cents
To see the elephant, elephant, elephant
Jump over the fence, fence, fence
He jumped so high, high, high
He touched the sky, sky, sky
And didn't come back, back, back
'til the fourth of july, -ly, -ly
You lie!
Played with a partner. At the end, the person who shouts "you lie!" first is the winner.
A sailor went to sea, sea, sea
To see what he could see, see, see
But all that he could see, see, see
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea
Played with my mom quite a bit in elementary school. At sea/see parts, we'd raise our arms in a salute. I think she taught me this one. She grew up in the '60s.
There was another one I vaguely remember. I remember very few words: yellow, rocking/cradle?, cracker. Has anybody else heard something with those words? I remember the rocking part because the person's arms would form a cradle when the word was said.
Also Numbers. I remember playing it in high school, too.
Another one I learned in high school was from friends in 2004. They came to Hawaii from Japan. It can be played with as few as three people to a large group.
(The person beginning says their two-syllable nickname.) kara, hajimaru, 'ryzum' ni awa sete. This means that the person is starting and telling the participants to follow the rhythm they start. At the same time, everyone begins by patting their lap with both hands once, clapping once, snap right once, snap left once. Repeat all of this twice.
Then pat lap, clap, snap right, snap left again. At the right snap, the beginning person says another person's two-syllable nickname. At left snap, the numbers one through four in Japanese (ichi - one; ni - two; san - three; shi OR yon - four)
Pat lap, clap, snap right, snap left again. If ichi, at left snap person two says their two-syllable nickname.
Pat lap, clap, snap right, snap left again. If ni, at right snap and left snap person two says their nickname.
Pat lap, clap, snap right, snap left again. If san, at clap, right snap and left snap person two says their nickname.
Pat lap, clap, snap right, snap left again. If shi/yon, at all motions, person two says their nickname.
If successful, pat lap, clap, snap right, snap left again. At right snap, person two says yet another person's nickname, and so on.
If unsuccessful, the last successful person gets to start again.
(I really hope this is clear. It's a bit difficult since I haven't played this in a while.)
Rhyme:
Coca-cola went to town
Pepsi-cola shot him down
Dr. Pepper fixed him up
Now he's called 7-Up.
Learned this in kindergarten (very early '90s) from a girl volunteering there.
About mid-'90s at my younger brother's baseball games:
Row, row, row your boat
Roughly down the stream
Push the other team overboard
And listen to them scream
Ah!
Five days later
Chewing on their underwear
Wished they had another pair
Ten days later
Eaten by a polar bear
Oops, the polar bear died
Poor thing, not!
My grandpa taught us the following. He grew up in the '20s.
There's a hole in the wall
Where the people see it all
There's a place in France
Where the women wear no pants.
There's a Renaissance piece called "Hole in the Wall." A version of it is in harpist Laura Zaerr's book "Renaissance Rose." I don't think there's a connection, but it's a fun, upbeat piece.
Parodies:
Hi ho hi ho
it's off to work we go
with razor blades and hand grenades
Hi ho hi ho hi ho
hi ho hi ho
from work to home we go
with burned up butts and razor cuts
Hi ho hi ho hi ho...
Learned this from my younger brother maybe around 2000.
Here comes the bride
All dressed in white
Where is the groom?
He's in the dressing room.
Probably around '94-'97.
The first two lines of the following come from my harp teacher. The last two were my input. She wrote it so I could remember "Here comes the bride" when I play at weddings. My teacher went to early elementary school in the Mid-west then moved to Oregon. She's in her late 30s, I believe. First time I'm sharing the first bit outside of my teacher and a friend.
Here comes the bride
All fat and wide
Where is the groom?
He's in the dressing room.
Irritating:
Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall,
Ninety-nine bottles of beer,
Take one down,
Pass it around,
Ninety-eight bottles of beer on the wall...
My friends and I used to try to sing this on the bus going back to school from field trips in third grade ('96-'97). We never got past ninety-five. Sometimes it was changed to 'pop' depending on the teacher.
This is a song that never ends,
It goes on and on my friends,
Some people started singing it
Not knowing what it was
And then they kept on singing it forever
Just because...
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
And this is how it goes...
I learned in high school that if you sing this in a very high pitch, it gets on people's nerves right away.
And remember Telephone? My grandpa loved playing this with my siblings and me.
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