Submitted by Audrey S
The lyrics according to Wikipedia are:
Patty Cake, Patty Cake,
Baker’s Man;
That I will Master,
As fast as I can;
Prick it and prick it,
And mark it with a T,
And there will be enough for Jacky and me.
We don’t think those are the same lyrics we remember as kids though. Know any other songs? Post them in the comments.
I remember “Patty Cake, Patty Cake,
Baker’s Man;
Bake me a cake,
As fast as you can;
Pat it and prick it,
And mark it with a B,
And there will be enough for Baby and me!”
I recall…
Patty Cake, Patty Cake
Baker’s Man
Bake me a cake
As fast as you can
Roll ‘em and roll ‘em
Pick ‘em and pick ‘em
And toss ‘em waaaay up high.
And it wasn’t for a kids’ hand clap game. This was for little babies and the grown-up would do all the motions and/or help the baby do them with hands or feet.
When I was a kid, it was Cee Cee My Playmate (and, no, not in the bad sense of “playmate” but the archaic sense of a platonic friend).
Send me an email … oh, and cc my playmate, willya?
Let’s see if I remember:
“I like coffee, I like tea,
I like the boys and the boys like me,
Tell your mother to hold her tongue,
cuz she had a fella when she was young.
tell your father to take the blame,
cuz fellas are the ones that change your name”
and:
something about ooo, ah, where’s my bra, left in in my boyfriends car brush your teeth, comb your hair, don’t forget your underwear, then went to a chorus about kissing in the d-a-r-k d-a-r-k d-a-r-k dark dark dark
when sarah was a baby a baby a baby when sarah was a baby she used to go like this wah wah
when sarah was a toddler a toddler a toddler when sarah was a a toddler she used togo like this wah wah tie my shoe
when sarah was a child a child a child a child when sarah was a cjhild she used to o like this wah wah tie my show give me a piece of bubbel gum
when sarah was a teenager teenager teenager when sarah was a teenager she used to go like this wah wah tie my show give me a oeice of bubbel gum ooh ah forgot my bra in my boyfrieds car
when sarah was getting married married married when sarah was getting married she used to go like this wah wah tie my show give me a piece of bubbel gum ooh ah forgot my bra in my botfriends car du du du-da (wedding march) when sarah had kids kids kids when sarah had kids she used to go like this wah wah go to your room give me a peice of bubbel gum ooh ah forgot my bra in my boyfriends car du du du-da go to your room go to your room
when sarah uhh… i forgot after thatt sorry
and then miss sally
miss sally had a steamboat the steam boat had a bell
the miss sally went to heaven the steam bost went to
helo operator please give me number 9 dissconnect me and i will chopp of your
behind the frigerator there was a piece of glass miss sally sat apon it and broke her big fat
ask me no more questions please tell me no more lies the boy are in the bathroom zipping down there
flys are in the medow the bees are in the park miss sallying kissing her boyfriend in the
d-a-r-k-d-a-r-k-d-a-r-k dark is like the movies the movies like a show the show is like a t.v. set and that is all
i know i no my pa i know i no my ma i no i know my sitser with the $60 bra bra bra
and theres more i just have to go
I knew it as “molly” but just molly no miss :]
and i also know:
patty cake patty cake bakers man bake me a cake as fast as you can roll it and pat it and pat and mark it with an E (its acually B but my parents always said my name so this is how i remember it)
and put it in the oven for emily and me.!.
x] i loved being little with all these hand things.
I heard “The dark is like a movie, a movie’s like a show, a show is like a sex movie and that is all I know.” I heard this line from an adult, too… I was like 12 at the time, but I might have heard it that way when I was younger, I just don’t remember for sure.
2 faves were Miss Mary Mack which I think
everyone remembers and
Miss Lucie ~
Miss Lucie had a baby
she named it Tiny Tim
she put it in the bathtub
to see if he could swim
He drank up all the water
he ate up all the soap
he tried to eat the bathtub but
it wouldn’t fit down his throat
Call the Doctor said Miss Lucie
Call the Doctor said the Nurse
Call the Doctor said the Lady
with the alligator purse
Out came the water
Out came the soap
Out came the bathtub
that wouldn’t fit down his throat
lol
just stumbled upon this.. this is great
does anyone rememmber..
The spades go eenie meenie
popsikeenie
I love boomerini
Otchi kotchi liveraci
say the magic word
a peach
a plum
a half a stick of chewing gum
and if you want the other half this is what you say
amen amen
amendiago sandiago
sis sis sis koomba
sharon and tommy sittin in a tree
bah ha ha
boo hoo hoo
criss cross
apple sauce
do me a favor and get lost.
and then it goes on.. does anyone remmember that one?
annd the banks of the hanky panky one.. does anyone remmember the bog part? where bullfrogs jump from log to log?
down by the river on the hanky pankys where the bullfrog jumps from bank to banky where the eeps ippes oppes opps east side belly & the turtle pops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patty Cake, Patty Cake
Baker’s Man
Bake me a cake
As fast as you can
Blow it and pat it
and mark it with a B
and put it in the oven
for Baby and me.
the way I remember it is:
Patty cake, patty cake,
Baker’s man;
Bake me a cake,
as fast as you can;
roll it, and pat it,
and mark it with a B,
then put it in the oven for baby and me!
Yup, those are the ones I remember, too.
Yup, those are the ones I know, too. According to Wikipedia, the version cited in the article is the earliest recorded, but this is the most common modern version.
I remember it like that and also, “Roll it and pat it, and put it in the pan!” At which point you’d tickle the baby on his belly.
That is the version I knew as well, and it was just a thing you did to make babies laugh by playing with their hands, not a “clapping game”
I used to do a slight variation of that, where instead of saying “Mark it with a B, put it in the oven for baby and me” you would use your first name. For example, My first name is Samantha, so my parents would say “mark it with an S, put it in the oven for Sammy and me”. sure it doesn’t rhyme as nicely, but there are lots of kids I knew who’s parents also did the personalized version
Yup, that’s how I remember it, too. Also as a baby game, though I think there was some clapping with the baby (though I remember “roll it” having a rolling motion in particular), and substituting the appropriate initial and child’s name whenever possible. I actually have an old nursery rhyme book of my mother’s with this version in it (though of course it has the “B” and “baby” instead of a particular child’s name).
I am pretty sure it was
Pat a cake pat a cake
bakers man
bake me a cake
as fast as you can
pat it and prick it
and mark it with B
and put it in the oven
for baby and me
it was a georgain rhyme about comunal ovens
I had the above one but sometime we’d chance the letter for whomever the game was being played with.
This is the version I know, although at my house we usually sing the abbreviated version: “Patty cake, patty cake baker’s man- roll it up and roll it up and THROW IT IN THE PAN!” The “throw it” bit being yelled as your hands are flung up in the air.
this is the one we always did too!!
That’s the version I heard my sisters singing for hours on end lol
Miss Mary Mack, anyone? And the one these gals do (but we stopped after Dark on ours, because we felt the other verses were nowhere near as much fun with almost-bad words/deeds).
“….With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back back!”
Loved that one!
FTW!
Kissing in the D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K, dark, dark, dark!
Darker than the ocean,
Darker than the sea,
Darker than the black boy chasing after me!
Crude, but that was the one we all sang…
Ya that was what my old babysitter taught me about a black boy……. i always tried to change it but she said it wasn`t the right words if i didn`t………….
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 fifty cents cents cents to see the elephant elephant elephant on the other side of the fence fence fence she jumped so high high high up in the sky sky sky she never came back back back till the fourth of ju ly ly ly.
Miss Lucy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell, Miss Lucy went to heaven and the steamboat went to
Hello operator, please give me number 9, and If you disconnect me I will chop off your
Behind the ‘fridgerator, there was a piece of glass. Miss Lucy sat upon it and it went right up her
Ask me no more questions. Tell me no more lies. The boys are in the girls room pulling down their
Flies are in the meadow, bees are in the park. Miss Lucy and her boyfriend are kissing in the D-A-R-K D-A-R-K D-A-R-K dark dark dark!
The dark is like a movie, the movie’s like a show, the show is like a TV show and that is all I know
I know my mother, I know I know my father, I know I know my sister wears an 18 meter 18 meter 18 meter bra bra bra!
I think that’s all there was…I remember confusion over what the heck an 18 meter bra was. In fact, I still don’t know what it is. Maybe I just misunderstood the words?
I think it was 18-hour, not 18 meter. We had something like that, too. I think it depends on when you grew up or where you grew up because everyone I know has a different version of the same game.
Hey, WE said “14 foot long bra”, which is just as weird. It’s entirely possible Jewna and her friends really were saying “18 meter.”
Knowing it’s likely the equivalent of a “Telephone” mix-up makes me feel better, somehow.
I’m glad to hear the “18 hour bra” as a possible origin for that line.
Haha, this is the same one I thought of!
Ours went:
“Miss Lucy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell, Miss Lucy went to heaven and the steamboat went to
Hello operator, please give me number 9, and If you disconnect me I will kick your fat
Behind the ‘fridgerator, there was a piece of glass. Miss Lucy sat upon it and it cut her little
Ask me no more questions. Tell me no more lies. The cow are in the meadow making lemonade and chocolate pie”
haha
This is how we learned it, living in Oregon:
Miss Suzie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell, Miss Suzie pulled the wrong cord [or "one"], Miss Suzie went to heaven, the steamboat went to
Hello operator, please give me number nine, and if you disconnect me, I’ll kick you from
Behind the ‘fridgerator, there laid a piece of glass, Miss Suzie slipped upon it and cut her little
Ask me no more questions, I’ll tell you no more lies, the boys are in the bathroom, zipping up their
Flies are in the meadow, the bees are in the barn, Miss Suzie and her boyfriend, are kissing in the D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K, dark! Dark! Dark!
There was another one that used “Miss Suzie” and went a little like this:
Miss Suzie was a baby, a baby Suzie was, she . (I think it incorporated the bathtub and soap lines.)
Then it moved to:
Miss Suzie was a toddler, a toddler Suzie was…
and then a teenager and it ended like:
Miss Suzie was a teenager, a teen Suzie was,… (more that I don’t recall)…
Ooh, ah, I lost my bra, sittin’ in the back of my boyfriend’s car!
I remember that one about the bra… then I grew up and realized exactly what it was implying and was like OOOOH my LoL
Ours went:
Miss Susie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell, Miss Susie went to heaven and the steamboat went to
Hello operator, please give me number 9, and If you disconnect me I’ll kick you in the
Behind the refrigerator, there was a piece of glass, Miss Susie sat upon it, and cut her little
Ask me no more questions, I’ll tell you no more lies. The boys are in the bathroom, zipping up their
Flies are in the pasture, eating up the pies. (i.e. cow pies)
The boys and girls are kissing in the D-A-R-K D-A-R-K D-A-R-K dark dark dark!
We did basically the same version, except for the end:
Ask me no more questions, tell me no more lies. The boys are in the bathroom, pulling down their
Flies are in the meadow, bees are in the park. Miss Susie and her boyfriend, kissing in the D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K dark dark
Darker than the ocean, darker than the sea, darker than the underwear my mother puts on me!
I know I know my mother, I know I know my pa, I know I know my sister and her 18 meter bra!
My best friend also made her own ammended last line (looking back on it, kinda perverted). But she would sometimes sing:
I know I know my mother, I know I know my pa, I know I know my brother and his 18 meter weiner!
For us, it was Miss Susie, and the song ended after “D-A-R-K, dark.”
Miss Susie had another adventure, as well:
“Miss Susie had a baby,
She named it Tiny Tim.
She put it in the bathtub
To see if it could swim.
“It drank up all the water,
It ate up all the soap.
It tried to eat the bathtub but
It wouldn’t go down his throat.
“Miss Susie called the doctor,
The doctor called the nurse,
The nurse called the big fat lady with the alligator purse.
“In ran the doctor,
In ran the nurse,
In ran the big fat lady with the alligator purse.
“The doctor could do nothing,
And neither could the nurse,
And neither could the big fat lady with the alligator purse….”
(I forgot the rest. Prehistoric memory FAIL)
Holy crap…….this is a throwback! I haven’t thought about this one in years!
I remember the end as being…
The dark is like a theatre, the theatre’s like a show, the show is like the movies, and that isn’t all I know!
My father is Godzilla, my mother is King Kong. My sister wears a bra, eighty miles long!
And then you break out of the pattern and just exclaim,
“WOW! Eighty MILES?! That’s bigger than the mall, and the mall is in Bangor, Bangor’s in Maine, Maine is in the United States and this song is insane!”
But that could just be a little add on that we did since we grew up in Maine and pretty much lived in the woods. o.o
sally had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell, when sally went to heaven the seamboat went to
hello operator, give me number 9, and if you disconnect me i’ll kick you from
behind the fridgerator , there was a piece of glass, when sally sat on it , a piece went up her
ask me no more questions, i’ll tell you no more lies. the cows are in the pasture, eating chocolate pies singing einer meiner and a minor mo, catch a whipper whopper by the toe and if he holler, holler, hollers don’t let him go, singing einer meaner and a minor mo!
I remember it like this:
Lulu had a steamboat, steamboat had a bell
Lulu pulled the wrong cord, and blew them all to
Hello operator, ring me number nine
And if there is no answer, then kiss my
Behind the frigerator lay a piece of glass
Lulu sat upon it and cut her little
Ask me no more questions, and I will tell no lies.
The boys are in the bathrooms pulling down their
Flies are in the meadow, bees are in the park.
Lulu and her boyfriend are kissing in the d-a-r-k dark!
I am pretty sure it was miss.suzie!!! and thi sis jow i sing it.
Miss.Suzie had a steamboat
The steam boat had a bell.
Miss.Suzie went to haeaven and the steamboat went to
Hell-o operatoer please give me number nin
Mine was a bit different…
Miss Mary had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell (ding ding), Miss Mary went to heaven and the steamboat went to
Hello operator, please give me number 9, and If you disconnect me I’ll kick you in behind the yellow curtain, there was a piece of glass. Miss Mary sat upon it and broke her big fat
Ask me no more questions. I’ll you no more lies. The boys are in the washroom zipping up their
Flies are in the city, the bees are in the park. Miss Mary and her boyfriend are kissing in the D-A-R-K spells dark
is like a movie, a movie’s like a show, a show is like a video and that is all I know
I know my ma, I know I know my pa, I know I know my sister wears an 49 acre bra!
My mother is Godzilla, my father is king Kong, my sister is the one who made-up this dumb song!
i remember it as
miss molly had a steam boat the steam boat had a bell. miss molly went to heaven the steam boat went to hello operator please give me number 9 if u disconnect me i’ll kick you behind the yellow curtain there was a piece of glass miss molly sat upon it and broke her ask me no more questions tell me no more lies the boys are in the washroom doing up there flies are in the city the bees are in the park miss molly and her boyfriend are kissing in the d-a-r-k dark then the movies dark then the show darker then my siters room and thats all i know. i know i know my ma. i know i know my pa. i know i know my sister with a 40 incher bra bra bra. i have seen her in the ocean seen her in the sea seen her skinny dipping opps pardon me!!
The way I remember it was
Miss Mary had a steamboat the steamboat had a bell
Miss Mary went to Heaven, the steamboat went to Heaven
Miss Mary went to hell-o operator
Give me number nine
And if you disconnect me I’ll kick you from behind
The refrigerator there was a piece of glass
Miss Mary sat upon it and broke her as-k
me no more questions I’ll tell you no more lies
The boys are in the bathroom zipping up there flies
Are in the kitchen, bees are in the park
Boys and girls are kissing in the
D A R K dark
Oh and also that down by the banks one!
Down by the banks of the hanky panky where the bull frogs jump from bank to banky singing eep opp eep opp opp skiddle diddle kerrrr plop!
(We had tons of these hand clappy games at the summer camp I went to.)
I know that song, except I remember it being a river, not a bank. And they were singing, “A-E-I-O-U, sweet mama, sweet daddy, bam boom.”
It’s funny how we all used different lyrics.
Ours was very similar, accompanied by a great circle hand slap game.
Down by the banks of the hanky-panky, where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky, with an eeps, opps, oh-ps, me strike a dilly with a ding-dong!
We did the circle hand game too! Only ours ended with “eep, eipps, ohpps, opps, he hit the lily with a big ker-PLOP!” and the person whose hand was slapped on “plop” was out. If they were fast, they could move their hand making the person doing the slapping slap their own hand.
ours ended with:
singing ee-ee oh-oh ah-ah oo-oo, boom skop a diddly (or dilly) and a ba-roomp! (like the sound a frog makes, “baroomp”)
I’ve heard some end with “ba-roomp” instead of “ding-dong”.
I love reading about how everyone learned these rhymes, and how different they can be!
Down on the river called the Hanky Panky, where the bull frogs leap from bank to banky, with a Hip, Hop, Flip, Flop, miss that banky and you go Ker-PLOP!
^_^
Wow! At least that one makes some sense! LOL
The one we sang went “Down by the banks of the hanky panky where the bull frogs leaped from bank to bank with an eeps opps soda pops, someone dropped the bottle and it went kerplop.”
We did : Down by the banks of the hanky panky where the bull frogs jumped from banks to banky with an eeps ipes opes oops, an oop-flop-a-dilly and an oop flop flop. Pepsi cola ginger ale, ginger ale, ginger ale, ginger ale, ginger ale, pepsi cola ginger ale seven-up, seven-up, seven-up, your out!
We did: down by the river side hanky panky where the bull frogs jump from bank to bank say e i o u your momma stank and so do you ping pong ding dong your daddy smell like king kong!
we did: down by the river side hanky panky where the bull dogs jump from bank to bank sayin e i o u your momma stank and so do you ping pong ding dong your daddy smell like king kong!
Miss Suzy and her steam boat crashed into a wall,
Miss Suzy went to heaven and the steam boat went to…
hello opporater please give me number nine,
and if you disconnect me I’ll kick your…
behind the refrigerator there laid a piece of glass,
Suzy sat upon it and broke her little…
ask me no more questions, tell me no more lies,
the boys are in the bathroom zipping up their…
flys are in the meadow the bees are in the park,
and if you really like this song go back to the start.
Lulu had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell, Lulu went to heaven, the steamboat went to
Hello operator, give me number 9, If you disconnect me I’ll kick you in your
Behind the ‘fridgerator, there was a piece of glass. Lulu slipped upon it and cut her big fat
Ask me no more questions; I’ll tell you no more lies. This all happened before Lulu
Dyes her hair red, dies her hair blue. She looks best in purple and I think you do too!
Am I the only one old enough to remember the one that started it all?
Peas porridge hot,
Peas porridge cold,
Peas porridge in the pot
Nine days old!
Some like it hot,
Some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot
Nine days old!
Wow, I must be old, i remember that one! And thinking, ’9 days old? Yarg!’
Don’t forget the last verse:
I like it hot!
I like it cold!
I like it in the pot
Nine days old!
heh, this one’s a LOT older than any of us, it’s been around since the 1700s at least, from what I remember hearing.
So I AM old!
Well, I’m only 27, and I remember that one, but again, not as a clapping game but as a nursery rhyme.
I’m only 28…and we played it as a clapping game, a simple rhyme, or even a jump rope game, depending on how we felt that particular day or who we were playing with.
In fact, I remember ALOT of these that are being discussed!!
I, too, remember that. We’d sing it, or clap to it, too, depending. Another one that’s primarily a nursery rhyme/song that we clapped to was:
Hot cross buns,
Hot cross buns,
One-a-penny, two-a-penny,
Hot cross buns!
Absolutley not I’m (almost) 24 my grandma sang that to me I forgot about it untill now. Thank u!
Ohh my god, that was in Salad Fingers. OH THE HORROR!! D:
Miss Mary Mack! Mack! Mack!
All dressed in black! Black! Black!
With silver buttons! Buttons! Buttons!
All down her back! Back! Back!
There was more but that’s all I remember. I should also point out the initial “Miss Mary…” was rather drawn out: “Mi-iiiss Ma-aary Mack!…”
She asked her mother mother mother
for 50 pence pence pence
to see the elephant elephant elephant
Jump the fence fence fence
it jumped so high high high
it touched the sky sky sky
and then came back back back
on mary mack mack mack
Ours ended a bit differently…
It jumped so high high high
it reached the sky sky sky
and it never came back back back
till the Fourth of July ly ly.
I have herd that version too
Thank you, Starly! That was our version in Hawaii, except it was 50 cents here in the Colonies.
I live in England so that makes sence
By the way you can’t spell “pence” It is supposed to be cents!! Go back to preschool. You looser.My 3 year old sister knows how to spell cents.
Honey, America uses cents, UK uses pence. I dunno why you call it one penny when it’s a cent, to be honest. But yeah. Pence is nothing like cents, even your 3 year old sister could tell you that.
Wow. That’s pretty lame. How interesting that you feel the need to attempt to insult someone on a thread such as this. One might wonder if you’re a troll…
Also, it’s quite amusing to me, and I’m sure to some others, that you don’t even have your information correct. Irony, you has it. (Need I refer you to icanhazcheezburger.com so that you understand my use of “has”?) As the other person stated, and as should have been obvious from the statement from the one who said she (I assume female from the nick) was from England, “pence” is a correct term.
Oh, and by the way? It’s “loser”, not “looser”. Even young children just beginning to read learn the difference between “o” and “oo”.
See see oh playmate,
Come out and play with me,
And bring your dollies three,
Climb up my apple tree,
Slide down my rainbow
Into my dresser drawer
And we’ll be jolly friends
For ever more more moremoremoremore.
See see oh playmate,
I cannot play with you.
My dollies have the flu,
Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.
Can’t slide down rainbows
Into your dresser drawer,
But we’ll be jolly friends
For ever more more moremoremoremore.
See see oh enemy,
Come out and fight with me,
And bring your weapons three,
Climb up my poison tree,
Slide down my razor blade,
And through my dungeon door,
And we’ll be enemies,
For ever more more shut-the-door.
That last verse is creepy! I always heard it as ‘rain-barrel’ and ‘cellar door’, to go play horrid games in the basement, haha!
Ours was always just…
“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
Forever more, more – m’m'more!”
And then there were those jumprope songs..
“Cinderella, dressed in yella
Went upstairs to kiss her fella
She made a missss-take
And kissed a snake
How many doctors did it take?
1…2…3…”
or
“Down in the meadow where the green grass grows
There sat [girl jumping] as sweet as a rose
She sang a song and she sang so sweet
Along came [her crush or some guy] and kissed her on the cheek
How many kisses… did she get [or get that week?]
1…2..3…”
I remember it:
Oh little playmate, come out and play with me
And bring your dollies 3, climb up my apple tree,
Slide down rain barrel, hang on my cellar door,
And we’ll be jolly friends forever more
Oh little playmate I can not play with you,
My dollies have the flu
The mumps and measles too
Ain’t got no rain barrell ain’t got no cellar door
but we’ll be jolly friends forever more.
See see oh playmate,
I cannot play with you.
My dollies have the flu,
Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.
Our alternate lines here were:
“She threw up in my shoe”
or
“She’ll puke all over you”…
I scared my husband by singing some of these while I was watching and reading. =)
We sang it,
“Holler down my rain barrel,
Slide down my cellar door.”
– those old fashioned cellar doors were attached to the back or side of a house and slanted down at about a 45 degree angle, covering a set of stairs that led into the cellar.
i knew this one-
see see my playmate,
come back and play with me
my dolly has the flu
chickenpocks nd measels too!
over the raainbow,
unerneath the apple tree
we’ll play just you and me,
we’ll sit and drink our tea!
okiee….
We did this over and over, faster and faster, until someone screwed up.
Zing, Zing, Zing, Zing
Eenie meenie gypsalinie
Oooh aahhhh bubaleenie
Achie Kachie Liberace
I love you
Take a peach
Take a plum
Take a stick of bubble gum
No more school
No more books
No more teacher’s dirty looks
YEAH!
Ours was similar:
Eenie meenie pepsodini
ah bah boobaleenie
Achie Kachie Liberace
I beg you to have a peach
Have a plum
Have a stick of chewing gum
If you want the other half, this is what you say
A-rumba, a-rumba, achie, kachie, saykus.
Yeah, didn’t make much sense to me then either.
Awesome! That’s close enough to make me realize I’m NOT, in fact, having a brown acid flashback moment…;)
*lol* You ever get a phrase stuck in your head and you don’t remember where it came from………..
Eenie meenie gypsalinie
Oooh aahhhh bubaleenie
Achie Kachie Liberace
I love you
is one of them.
ROFL! Sorry about that…
This is the song that never ends.
It just goes on and on, my friends.
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was.
They will go on singing it forever, just because this is the song that never ends.
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!
That’s my name, too.
Whenever we go out,
The people always shout,
“There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!”
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la…
We’d substitute “toilet” frequently for this little ditty.
Miss Susie had a baby,
She named him Tiny Tim
She put him in the bathtub,
To see if he could swim
He drank up all the water,
He ate up all the soap,
He tried to eat the bathtub
But it wouldn’t go down his throat.
Miss Susie called the doctor,
Miss Susie called the nurse,
Miss Susie called the lady,
With the alligator purse
In came the doctor,
In came the nurse,
In came the lady,
With the alligator purse
Mumps said the doctor,
Measles said the nurse,
Hiccups said the lady
With the alligator purse
Miss Susie punched the doctor,
Miss Susie kicked the nurse,
Miss Susie thanked the lady
With the alligator purse
Went like this:
Miss Susie had a baby,
She named him tiny Tim,
She put him in the toilet,
To see if he could swim.
He swam around the bottom,
he swam around the top.
Miss suzy got excited
And she flushed him down the pot pot pot.
Oh yeah, I remember that one too! The variation I heard was in the middle:
Miss Susie called the doctor
The doctor called the nurse
The nurse called the lady
with the alligator purse
Then out came all the water
Out came all the soap
Out came all the bathtub
That wouldn’t go down his throat!
Miss Susie thanked the doctor
The doctor thanked the nurse
The nurse thanked the lady
with the alligator purse
another variant
i had a little turtle
his name was tiny tim
we put him in the bathtub
to see if he could swim
he drank up all the water
he ate up all the soap
now he’s sick in bed with a bubble in his throat
bubble bubble bubble
bubble bubble bubble
bubble bubble bubble
BUBBLE… BUBBLE….. POP!
We always said it that way….up until the end….
i had a little turtle
his name was tiny tim
we put him in the bathtub
to see if he could swim
he drank up all the water
he ate up all the soap
now he’s sick in bed with a bubble in his throat
BURP!! (We’d holler “burp” at the end)
I remember that one, too!
There’s also:
Miss Suzie had a baby,
She named him Tiny Tim,
She put him in the toilet,
to see if he could swim.
He swam around the bottom,
he swam around the top.
Miss Suzie got excited,
and flushed him down the pot.
(And don’t get me started on the Popeye the Sailor Man ones.)
Obviously I should refresh after I finish posting.
“Miss Lucy had a baby,
She named him Tiny Tim.
She put him in the bathtub,
To see if he could swim.
He drank up all the water,
He ate up all the soap.
He tried to eat the bathtub,
But it wouldn’t go down his throat.
Miss Lucy called the doctor,
Miss Lucy called the nurse.
Miss Lucy called the lady,
With the alligator purse.
‘Mumps!’ said the doctor.
‘Measles!’ said the nurse.
‘Chicken pox!’ said the lady,
With the alligator purse.
Miss Lucy paid the doctor,
Miss Lucy paid the nurse.
Miss Lucy paid the lady
With the baby in her purse.”
I had that stuck in my head ALL DAY while at work.
please tell me girls still do these. they were so much fun!
My daughter does!
Some girls do…in fact, I’m putting together a little book for a friend of mine’s little girl. She likes to jump rope & say different rhymes while jumping….:)
This one was really complicated, and I’m not sure I remember exactly how it went, but there were several versions and we used to do kind of a dance while clapping. If you can’t tell, this is DEFINITELY a nostalgic win for me. Ahhh, innocence…
Down, down baby, down by the rollercoaster,
Sweet, sweet baby, I’ll never let you go,
Shimmy shimmy cocoa pop, shimmy shimmy rock,
I met a girlfriend, a triscuit, she said a triscuit, a biscuit,
Ice cream, soda pop, vanilla on the top,
Ooh Chelley, walking down the street, ten times a week,
I said it, I meant it, I stole my mamma’s credit,
I’m cool, I’m hot, sock me in the stomach until I forget it.
down down baby down by the rollercoaster
sweet sweet baby ill never let you go
shimmy shimmy cocoa pop shimmy shimmy rock
shimmy shimmy cocoa pop shimmy shimmy rock
called the doctor the doctor said
lets get the rhtyme of the feet ding dong you got the rhythme of the feet
(… and every body part would have a diffferent sound and move)
put em all together and what do you get (repeat all in order)
put em in reverse and what do you get (repeat in reverse)
followed by much laughter and wanting to play again. I might be missing a line or two there and I cant remember all the actions anymore
I remember this one from Sesame Street.
Down down baby ,down by the rollercoaster
Sweet sweet baby, I’ll never let you go
Shimmy shimmy cocoa pop shimmy shimmy pow (x2)
Gramma, Gramma sick in bed, she called the doctor and the doctor said,
“Let’s get the rhythm of the head ” (x2)
“Let’s get the rhythm of the hands ” (x2)
“Let’s get the rhythm of the feet ” (x2)
“Let’s get the rhythm of the hot dog” (x2)
Put it all together and what do you get?
Ding-dong, clap clap, stomp stomp, hot-dog!
Say it all backwards and what do you get?
Hot-dog, stomp stomp, clap clap, ding-dong!
The part that’s shocking to me now, twenty years after I saw it, is the movement accompanying the “hotdog” line. The girls would put their hands on their hips and swing their pelvises about in a circle, stretching out the word, “hot”. This is probably why it’s not on Sesame Street anymore.
FDL! How had I not seen that as a kid and had to learn it from those pastor’s daughters?? But I do remember now seeing it in years since then. I can almost hear it in my head, and see the girls performing it. And that’s a great description of the movement–I’m not so good with words sometimes. Thank you for the post! (I’m still going to teach my kids it; what a memory!)
Yes!!! This is the one I was waiting for, the one with all the actions in it!
I loved playing this one as a kid. Here’s the version I learned:
First, the major clapping action was: left hand palm-up goes up while right hand palm-down goes down; partner does same thing so hands meet at mid-height. When you reach the top/bottom of your “pattern,” turn your hands over and bring your left hand down and your right hand up. Repeat this until a “special” move happens, marked by an * symbol.
Down, down, baby / Down by the *roller coaster! (Make roller-coaster motion with one hand; being left-handed I remember this as always being my left hand but righties may have done the opposite.
)
Sweet, sweet baby / I’ll never *let you go! (Cross arms over chest and sway back and forth.)
Shimmy, shimmy, cocoa pop / Shimmy, shimmy *ray! (Throw both hands up and out to the side, like an exaggerated shrug — or in some versions, take no action.)
Shimmy, shimmy, cocoa pop / Shimmy, shimmy *ray! (Throw both hands up and out to the side, like an exaggerated shrug — or in some versions, take no action.)
Iiiii had a girlfriend / *A triscuit! (Put right hand out to the side like you’re carrying a tray; leave it there.)
*Sheeee said a triscuit / *A biscuit! (Remain in position from last line; at “A biscuit!” put your left hand out to the other side so you’re symmetrical. It ends up looking like a very exaggerated “On the one hand . . . but on the other hand . . . sort of gesture.)
Ice cream soda with *vanilla on the top! (Make circular motions with an index finger pointed straight into the air.)
Ooh, shimmy! / *Walkin’ down the street! (Make the universal “person walking” motion with index and middle fingers of one hand, walking away from the arm you’re using — i.e. if you’re using your left arm, your person walks right.)
*Ten times a week! (Turns palms so they’re facing your partner, then make dual high-fives at about shoulder high in rhythm on each syllable.)
I meant it; I said it / I stole my mama’s *credit! (Take one whole hand and slide it down your hip starting from about waist height.)
I’m cool; I’m hot / *Sock me in the stomach three more times! (This last sentence is said faster, and the goal here is to punch your partner — hopefully gently — in the stomach before s/he can punch you. So you’re trying to punch while dodging, basically.)
So there’s my version. Yes, I still remember all of that over 15 years on from the last time I played it.
A lot of these others are more foggy, but I don’t think I’ll ever forget that one; it’s definitely an epic win for me, too! 
When we did the clapping, when our hands would come in contact, we’d clap twice.
That’s it! I swear, I was WAY more coordinated when I was a kid.
Thanks for the memory, Alex!
down down baby down by the rollercoaster
sweet sweet baby dont ever let me go
shimmy shimmy coco pop
shimmmy shimmy wow
shimmy shimmy coco pop
shimmy shimmy wow
ooo shee shee wawa a buiscut
i met a boy , a buiscut,
he’s so cool , a buiscut,
just like my swimming pool, a buiscut
ice cream soda pop cherry on top
ooo wee walkin down the street ten times a week
i said it i meant it
solar system number nine hit it to me one more time
oooshewawa oooshewawa ooo shewawa oooo!
From CA:
Down, down, baby,
Jump off the roller coaster!
Sweet, sweet cherry,
Never gonna let you go.
Batman’s in the kitchen,
Joker’s in the hall,
Robin’s in the bedroom,
Marching up the wall.
Grandma, Grandma, sick in bed,
Called the doctor and the doctor said:
“Let’s get the rhythm of the head!”
(Ding, dong!)
“Let’s get the rhythm of the head!”
(Ding, dong!)
“Let’s get the rhythm of the hands!”
(Clap, clap!)
“Let’s get the rhythm of the hands!”
(Clap, clap!)
“Let’s get the rhythm of the feet!”
(Clap, clap!)
“Let’s get the rhythm of the feet!”
(Clap, clap!)
That- won’t- work- so-
Just- give- her- some-
SWEET– HOT– PEPPERS!!!
At the ending, the jumprope-turners went as fast as possible. Disturbing lyrics, when you think about them.
(Stomping for the rhythm of the feet instead if clapping.)
This is quoted in the movie “Big” and I never knew it was on Sesame Street. The only thing different in the movie is the last line – Billy and Josh say: “Sock me in the stomach three more times.”
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 50 cents cents cents
to watch the boys boys boys
jump over the fence fence fence
they jumped so high high high
they touched the sky sky sky
and didnt come back back back
til the end of july-ly-ly
thats all I remember for that one, and the miss susie/lucy.. we again said miss mary
there was also one about smarties… “do you eat the red ones last” and “smarties are a blast” were part of the lines but i cant remember the rest… it was a shorty but a goody.
after the july-july-july part we’d always scream
“you lie” into each other’s faces….
Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow
back to my home, I dare not go
for if I do, my mother will say:
Have you ever seen a bear, rocking his chair, down by the bay?
Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow
back to my home, I dare not go
for if i do, my mother will say:
Have you ever seen a moose, kissing a goose, down by the bay?
And on and one while the actions of the animals get more ridiculous.
My sister and I can still do the old McDonald’s one:
Big Mac, Fillet o Fish!
Quarter Pounder, French fries
Icy Coke, thick shake,
Sundaes, and apples pies.
I remember a similar one… not really a clapping song, more of an acting/posing song.
A Pizza Hut
A Pizza Hut
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut
McDonald’s
McDonald’s
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut
McDonald’s
McDonald’s
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut
(repeat ad nauseum)
Yeah, I know that one, complete with the actions, and I also know the Girl Scout song it comes from — I think the words are supposed to be some variety of Native American, but darned if I can tell you what.
The original words (at least as far as I remember what my GS book said, and the way I learned ‘em at camps) were:
A-ram-sam-sam, A-ram-sam-sam
Gulli gulli gulli gulli gulli ram-sam-sam
A-ram-sam-sam
A-ram-sam-sam
Gulli gulli gulli gulli gulli ram-sam-sam
A-rah-pee
A-rah-pee
Gulli gulli gulli gulli gulli ram-sam-sam
A-rah-pee
A-rah-pee
Gulli gulli gulli gulli gulli ram-sam-sam
I believe at one time we were also told what it was supposed to mean, but I promptly forgot. The one we all sang whenever our counselors weren’t standing right over us was the fast food version anyhow.
Camp Newahlu!
Ging gang goolie goolie goolie goolie watcha,
Ging gang goo, ging gang goo.
Ging gang goolie goolie goolie goolie watcha,
Ging gang goo, ging gang goo.
Hayla, oh hayla shayla, hayla shayla, shayla, oh-ho,
Hayla, oh hayla shayla, hayla shayla, shayla, oh.
Shally wally, shally wally, shally wally, shally wally,
Oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah.
Link about the history of this totally AWESOME camping song…
Here it is…
Welcome to McDonald’s
May I take your order?
Big Mac, a Filet-o-Fish,
Quarter-pounder, french fries,
Icy cola, milkshakes, sundaes
And apple pie.
1–2–3–4–5
ROFL! I remember this one, too!
From wiki:
“Did you ever see a cat, wearing a hat?”
“Did you ever see a moose, kissing a goose?”
“Did you ever see an ant, climbing a plant?”
“Did you ever see a whale, with a polka-dot tail?” (this is the original variation)
“Did you ever see a bear, combing his hair?”
“Did you ever see a llama, wearing pajamas?”
“Did you ever see a fly, wearing a tie?”
“Did you ever see a bee with a sunburned knee?”
“Did you ever have a time when you couldn’t make a rhyme?”
“Did you ever see a rhino fighting a dino?”
“Did you ever see a goat riding in a boat?”
“Did you ever see a dog playing leap frog?”
“Did you ever see a gator with a polka-dot potater?”
“Did you ever see a star driving in a car?”
“Did you ever see a chicken get a lickin’?”
“Did you ever see a pig doing a jig?”
“Did you ever see a mouse playing in a dollhouse?”
“Did you ever see a horse getting a divorce?”
I believe the version I knew went like this:
Miss Suzie had a steamboat
The steamboat had a bell
Miss Suzie went to heaven
The steamboat went to
hello operator
give me number 9
and if you disconnect me
i’ll chop off your
behind the ‘fridgerator
there was a piece of glass
miss suzie sat upon it
and broke her little
ask me no more questions
tell me no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom
pulling down their
flies are in the meadow
the bees are in the park
miss suzie’s in the d-a-r-k, d-a-r-k
darker than the night sky
darker than the sea
darker than the underwear my mommy put on me!
And then I forget the rest….
>__> damn, I wish I remembered it now…
I pulled this from my dim memories:
My name is L-I L-I
Chick-o-lye chick-o-lye
Pom-pom beauty
Don’t like whiskey
Chinese, Japanese
Indian CHIEF!
Three, six, nine, the goose drank the wine
The monkey chewed tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke, the monkey choked
And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat
There were two more, but I’m wondering now if they were a little more obscure. One was done a circle and you would clap the hand of the girl to your right, whose hand was lying on yours — if that makes sense. It went:
Quack a dilioso, quack quack quack
Senorita, rita rita rita
Velor, velor, velor velor velor, veLOR!
One, two, three, FOUR!
I had no idea what the heck it meant and I have even less idea now. Then there was this one that always struck me as kind of dark. Plus I wasn’t sure why it started with a strange bastardization of 1, 2, and 3 in Spanish.
Uno, dos-ah, tres-ay…
I met my boyfriend at the candy store
He bought me ice cream, he bought me cake
He sent me home with a bellyache
Doctor, doctor, will I die?
Just close your eyes and count to five
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 –
I’m ALIVE!
I knew a version of all of these from my camp counselor days, including this one:
(Chorus)
Eddie Ketcha Cootcha Nary Tosta Wary Tosta Wary Saman Kama Wacki Brown
Fell into the well, fell into the well, fell into the deep, dark well.
Suzie Brown was milking in the barn
Saw him fall, and ran inside to tell her mom that… (chorus)
Suzie’s mom was baking cracklin bread
Saw old Joe and ran to say that Suzie said that… (chorus)
Well Old Joe, he put his plough aside
Grabbed his cane and hobbled into to town to say that… (chorus)
To the well everybody came
What a shame it took so long to say his name that… (chorus)
Drowned!
Oh my, I remember that one from Girl Scout camp. You’re bringing back the memories!!
Damn, I didn’t know that one until I met my older half-sister at ten years old, but I do remember it!!
WE did one in a circle where you clapped the girl’s hand to your left and she clapped the next girl and so on.
IT went
“Soup, macaroni, baloney
Ham and cheese ham and cheese.
Mashed potato
Chip chip Chip.
Sliced tomato
Chip chip chip.
Cheetos, doritos, fritos YUM!”
On the “chip chip chip” you’d clap that girl’s hand 3 times in a row, then she’d move on to the next girl.
And whomever’s hand was clapped on “YUM” was out, until the game went down to 2 girls, and then a winner.
We did something very similar, probably from the same origin, but our verse was:
Ahhhh . . . (Everyone gets ready; no claps)
Crocodile moray, croc-croc-croc! (8 claps)
Ay-cinco-see-noh, cinco, cinco, sah! Sah! (8 claps)
Ay-cinco-see-noh, mahlow, mahlow, (8 claps)
Mahlow, mahlow, mahlow! (3 claps)
One, two, three, four, FIVE! (5 claps)
(Obviously these were mostly nonsense words, and I’m doing the best I can do give phonetic pronunciations here.
)
On “FIVE!” the person whose hand is about to be clapped had to try to pull it away before the person hit on “four” could get it. That determined who got out for the round; we continued until we were down to two and then did a variation to determine the winner.
It worked like this: we all sat in a circle with our left hand on top of the hand of the girl to our left, and our right hand under the hand of the girl to our right. So you had to wait for your own left hand to get clapped on “four,” then try to flip it to your right and hit the open palm of the next girl before she could snatch it away. If you hit her, she was out; if she got her hand out in time, you hit your own right hand, so you were out.
Definitely another classic for me.
I remember some of that, but not enough to have formulated any coherent thought. Mostly I recall the “ay-cinco,-see-noh” part.
And the end bit you describe is what we’d do with the frog “on the banks of the hanky-panky” song. When we got to “dong” that’s when you had to pull your hand away or try to get the other hand. We’d sit for most of our recesses doing this–in 8th grade even! It was almost as if we were snubbing our noses at the impending high school years. Even the boys would sit with us.
So many memories…
We would do the “uno, dos-ah, tre-say” with pinky fingers linked with the girl in front of you and then start hand clapping with “I met my boyfriend…”
I remember it like this:
“Quack a dilioso, quack quack quack (hit it!)
Señorita, your mother smells like pizza
Señora, señora, señora señora señora
One, two, three, four, five, SIX!”
I may not be exactly right, but I clearly recall “your mother smells like pizza,” and I’m pretty sure we went beyond four.
I went to the market
To buy a loaf of bread bread bread
I put it in the basket
And this is what it said said said
My name is
Eli, Eli, pick an eye, pick an eye,
Pom Pom beauty, African Cutey
Don’t drink whiskey, it’s too riskey
Chinese, Japanese, Indian chief!
HOW!
Ever notice that a lot of innocent clapping games were kinda racist, racey, or just violent?
Cinderella dressed in yella went upstairs to kiss her fella
Made a mistake, kissed a snake, how many doctors did it take?
One, two, three (count until someone misses a clap. Also done with jump rope)
I heard one similiar when I was a kid:
I went to Chinese restaurant
to buy a loaf of bread
He wrapped it up in toilet paper
And this is what he said
My name is
Kai yai, yippie aye
Yippie aye, Kai yai,
Hong kong phooey
Wooly wooly whiskers,
Chow Wow!
Also
I went to a Chinise restaurant
to buy a loaf of bread
he wraped it up in a five pound note
and this is what he said
My name is Elvis Presley
Girls are sexy
sitting in the background drinking pepsi
mums got a baby
dads gone crasy
al you got to do is bum bum
You know I am amazed the school let us have that one
Wow, I’m surprised other people know this one! I learned it like:
I went to a Chinese restaurant
to buy a loaf of bread, bread, bread
He put it in a paper bag
and this is what he said, said, said
My name is
P I Piccolo, Piccolo Whiskey
Wally Wally Waffer
Chinese Chopsticks
Ciao
It was a pretty easy hand game, I can still do it XD I was always confused as to why someone was going to a Chinese restaurant to buy *bread*, though.
I learned one similar to these. It was…
I went to a Chinese restaurant
to buy a loaf of bread, bread, bread
They asked me what my name was
and this is what I said, said, said
My name is
Alli Alli
Chico-li Chico-li
Pom Pom Poodle
Willy Willy Whiskers
(repeated again)
My name is Chief, roast beef.
i learned it as follows;
Iiiiii went to a Chinese baker’s shop
to buy a loaf of bread bread bread
Heeeee wrapped it up in toilet paper
and this is what he said said said
Myyyyy naaaame iiiiis
Elvis Presley
Girls are pretty
sittin’ in the back seat
drinkin’ diet Pepsi
boys go woo woo
girls go smooch smooch
whadda ya think of that?
DISGUSTING!
(we didn’t say smooch, we just made kissy sounds)
And there was one my mom taught me, that her gramma taught her, that I taught my younger cousins:
I am a pretty little Dutch Girl
As Pretty as pretty can be
And every time I turn around
Another little boy is looking at me!
We would see how fast we could do this one without slapping one another in the face.
I remember adding this one on to the ends of many other ones (like Mrs Mary Mack)
Einey, Meany, Miney, Mo
Catch a tiger by it’s toe,
If it hollars, make it say
I surrender USA
My mommie told me to pick the
very best one and you are it.
Of course, it was done at increasing speed and who ever messed up was “it”.
When I was a kid, it wasn’t “tigger” but something that rhymed with it…
WHAT? We didn’t know better. We sang a lot of clapping songs that probably would be considered racist at this point…
as is evidenced by this one, which I had to look up to fully remember.
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Zing, Zing, Zing,
and ah 1-2-3.
I like coffee, I like tea.
I like a black boy and he likes me.
So step back, white boy, you don’t shine.
I’ll get the black boy to beat your behind.
Last night and the night before.
I met my boyfriend at the candy store.
He bought me ice cream he bought me cake.
He brought me home with a belly ache.
Mama, mama, I feel sick
Call the doctor, quick, quick, quick
Doctor, doctor, will I die?
Close your eyes and count to five
1-2-3-4-5
I’m Alive!
See that house up on the hill.
That’s where me and my baby live.
Eat a piece of meat
Eat a piece of bread.
Come on baby. let’s go to bed
I can only imagine what was in that pie to give you a bellyache and a baby….
I also remember a very racist and sexually-charged verse from that song that I almost died when I heard my daughter repeat it. I had always said it, and never knew what it meant:
Mama, mama, I feel sick
call the doctor, lickety-split!
Doctor, doctor, will I die?
No, stay away from that black guy!
He stayed the night with Mrs. Brown
so kick that black boy out of town!
My black boyfriend lied fo sho’
cuz mrs. brown’s baby has a fro!
Yeah, I think we’d get beat down if we repeated that nowdays.
We used these for picking people for tag or whatever.
“Einey, Meany, Miney, Mo
Catch a tiger by it’s toe,
If it hollars,
Let him go.
Einey, Meany, Miney, Mo!”
(Then, if we weren’t satisfied with the result, we’d add:
“My mother says to pick the very best one and that is Y-O-U red, white, and blue!”)
“Stink in the barnyard,
PU!
Who could have done it?
Not You!”
“My mother punched your mother
Right in the nose!
What color blood came out?
(Then you spelled whatever color came out.)”
we texas girls this one:
my mother and your mother were hangin’ out the clothes
my mother gave your mother a punch in the nose
what color was the blood?
Everyone would hold their two hands together to make a big fist.
bubble gum, bubble gum in a dish,
How many pieces do you wish?
(That person would pick a number)
they would then go around till they go to the number. (fun when your brother mentions like, 50 and you have to go to 50!)
That person, if they still had their double fist would break apart into two fists.
It would continue, and once you were at two fists, if one of your fists was tagged, it went behin you. When both of your firsts are out you’re tagged out.
Eener, meener, and a miner mo,
Catch a whipper-whopper, by its toe,
and if it hollers, don’t let it go,
I’m singing,
eener, meener, and a miner mo!
or
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo,
Catch a tiger, by its toe,
and if it hollers, make it pay,
fifty dollars every day.
My mother told me to pick the very best
and you are not it.
[Or "are it" depending upon the way you're picking.]
Yes, we did both, depending on where we were…..There are ALOT of rhymes that could be considered racist during these days of political correctness.
Also, we would say:
“If he hollars, make him pay
Fifty dollars every day
My mama told me
to pick the very best one
and you are NOT it.”
Ours was the same, but after fifty dollars every day, we said:
O U T spells out & out you go!
The way I remember it is;
Einey, Meany, Miney, Mo
Catch a tiger by it’s toe,
If he hollars, make him pay
50 dollars every day
My mother told me to pick the very best one
and you are not it.
I always remember it being
Einey, meany, Miney, mo
Catch a tiger by his toe
If he hollers, let him go
Einey Meany Miney mo,
My mother told me to pic the
very best one and that is
Y-O-U
Brings back memories of the schoolyard…
We also used “One Potato” to pick a turn. Everyone would stand with a fist out and one of them would touch each hand width each word (works better if there is just 2 people, otherwise it took a long time.)
One Potato
Two Potato
Three Potato
Four
Five Potato
Six Potato
Seven Potato
More
My Mother told me to pick the very best one
And that one is you!
That’s the one we did except the last part was
My mother told me to pick the very best one and you are not going to be it.
And then we’d repeat until only one person was it.
Bristish version
Einey, Meany miney mo
Catch a N**** by its toe
If it squeals let it go
einey meaney miney mo
Again i am amazed the things we got away with
That one was a counting game for me. You know, like to pick who’s “it” in a game of tag or something. And we did:
Eenie, meenie, miney, moe;
Catch a tiger by its toe.
If he hollers let ‘im go;
Eenie, meenie, miney, moe!
Then, of course, we usually continued with the other part:
My mother told me to pick the very best one and you are not it!
The other one we used was:
Bubble gum, bubble gum, in a dish!
How many pieces do you wish? (Stop on that individual for a number input)
One, two, etc . . . and you are not it!
They could both also end there, or (more typically) continue:
Not because you’re dirty, not because you’re clean;
Just because you kissed a boy behind a magazine!
Totally remember all of those! (I did post the first earlier, too.)
The bubble gum one I was trying to recall when I posted the train one, and I thought I was missing a lot of the last one, but I guess we did just do it in addition to the “my mom told me” part.
The part we used to add at the end is “and you are NOT it with a dirty dirty dish rag on my mother’s big fat stinkin’ toe that the dog licked for forty days in a row.”
Ew. :-p
I said:
Eenie, meenie, miney, mo
catch a tiger by its toe,
if he hollers, let him go
eenie, meenie, miney, mo
my mother said to pick the very best one
and you are not it
with the dirty dirty dish rag
on your smelly smelly smelly toe (of course, if the outcome wasnt what you wanted, you added another smelly, haha)
I went to a Chinese resturant
to buy a loaf of bread bread bread
He put it in a 10 cent bag
and this is what he said said said
My…name…is…
Eli Eli
Nic-a-ny, Nic-a-ny,
Pompom poodle
Willy Willy Whiskers
(Repeat the My…name…is… refrain at weird intervals while grasping each other’s hands to try and hurt them or push their hands back as far as you could)
My…price…is…
CHEAP!
*collapse into a ball of laughs while clutching your hurting hands*
Gosh girls were mean.
Then there was:
Miss Sue *clap clap*
Miss Sue *clap clap*
Miss Sue from Alabama
Was sittin’ in her rocker
Eatin’ Betty Crocker
Watchin’ the clock go
Tick-tock, Tick-tock-a-rolly-rolly
Tick-tock, Tick-tock-a-rolly-rolly
A B C D E F G
Wash these spots right off of me
Moonshine
Moonshine
Moonshine
FREEZE!
(after which, the first kid to blink or move “lost”)
We sang it like this in Texas:
“Miss Sue *clapclapclap*
Miss Sue *clapclapclap*
Miss Sue from Alabama,
Her real name was Suzanna.
Sittin’ in a rocker,
Eatin’ Better Crocker
Watchin’ that clock go
Tick-tock, tick-tock-banana
Tick-tock, tick-tock-banana
A B C D E F G
Wash those spots all over me
Moosha
Moosha
Moosha
FREEZE!”
Miss Sue *clap clap*
Miss Sue *clap clap*
Miss Sue from Alabama
Sittin’ in her rocker
Eatin’ Betty Crocker
Watchin’ the clock go
Tick-tock, Tick all around
I said
Tick-tock, Tick all around
You go
A B C D E F G
Gonna wash these stains right outta me
Gotta boom-sha
Gotta boom-sha
Gotta crack on my side, gotta crack on my side
Now don’t MOVE!
(after which, the first kid to blink or move “lost”)
I remember my babysitter taught this to me!
Little Betty Crocker
sitting in her rocker
watching the clock go
tick tock
tick tock banana ramma
ABCDEFG
wash these crumbs right off of me
betcha cant betcha cant betcha cant
FREEZE! (then you had to hold your pose)
Tra la la Boom dee ay!
The teacher passed away!
Does anyone remember the rest of that earworm?
Tra la la boom di-ay
There was no school today.
Our teacher passed away,
She died of tooth decay!
We threw her in the Bay,
She scared the fish away!
And when we pulled her out,
She smelled like sauerkraut!
And the NAUGHTY version I really remember
Tra la la boom di-ay
I met a guy today
He gave me twenty cents
To go behind the fence
My mother was surprised
To see my stomach rise
My father jumped for joy
It was a baby boy!
Tra lala boomsiay
It happened yesterday
You know that boy next door
He had me on the floor
I wouldn’t be surprised
To see my belly rise
I can’t come out to play
‘Cause junior’s on his way.
Tra-la-la-boom dee ay
The teacher passed away
we threw him in the bay
the sharks have lunch today!
Song Lyrics & WordsMy eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
We have tortured every teacher
We have broken every rule
We have shot the secretary and we hung the principal
Us brats keep marching on!
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah,
Teacher hit me with a ruler
I hit her in the butt
With a rotten coconut
And my teacher ain’t my teacher no more.
ROFL!
my mom taught me this version:
mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord
he was driving down the highway in a black and yellow ford
with one hand on the throttle and another on a bottle of
pabst’s blue ribbon beer
glory, glory hallelujah
teacher slapped me with a ruler
i bopped in the butt with a rotten coconut
and the juice came pouring out
ROFL! PBR, FTW! :cooll:
Heh.
Marijuana marijuana
LSD LSD
doctors make it
teachers take it
why can’t we?
Why can’t we?
–to the tune of frere jaques
man the sixties were weird.
The version I learned (in the 90s) was this:
Marijuana marijuana
LSD LSD
Richard Nixon makes it
Ronald Reagan takes it
Why can’t we?
Why can’t we?
Let’s see if I can remember our version. I remember as an adult making my mom repeat it to me so I could write it down.
Glory glory hallelujah, glory glory hallelujah
the school is burning down!
….
okay the only line i can really remember is my favorite
…
Teacher hit me with a ruler,
so i socked her in the bean with a rotten tangerine,
THE SCHOOL IS BURNING DOWN!!!
The other one remember, sort of:
From the halls of montezuma, to the shores of bubble gum bay,
we have fought our teachers battles with spit wads gum and clay!
first we fight for rights and recess
then to keep our desk a mess!
I am proud to claim the title, Teacher’s number one pest!
That’s the one! Naughty naughty!
I went to a Chinese restaurant
To buy a loaf of bread bread bread.
He asked me what my name was,
And this is what I said said said,
“My name is E-I, E-I
Nick-i-nye, Nick-iinye,
Pom pom poodle
Wooly wooly whiskers.
My name is, Boys are sweaty
Girls are pretty,
Kids are neat-o.
My name is
CHEAP ROAST BEEF!”
…makes no sense but used to play it all the time…
Who goes to a Chinese restaurant to buy bread?
Anyone? Anyone?
Anybody ever do this one?
-
C that’s the way it begins
H that’s the second letter in
I I am the third and
C that’s the fourth letter in that word
K I’m hangin’ in
E I’m near the end
Oh, C-H-I-C-K-E-N that’s the way to spell chicken.
-
Oh Rufus, Rafus, Johnson Brown
What cha gonna do when the rent comes round
What cha gonna pay, what cha gonna say
What cha gonna do come the Judgment Day?
-
Oh you know, I know everybody knows
You can’t pay the rent if you don’t have the dough
Oh Rufus, Rafus, Johnson Brown
What cha gonna do when the rent comes round?
-
Cuz you’re…
C ….
-
-
-
Or this one:
–
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Merry merry king of the bush is he,
Laugh, kookaburra, laugh, kookaburra,
Gay your life must be, ha, ha, ha!
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Eating all the gumdrops he can see,
Stop, kookaburra, stop, kookaburra,
Save some there for me, ha, ha, ha!
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Counting all the monkeys he can see,
Stop, kookaburra, stop, kookaburra,
That’s not a monkey, that’s me, ha, ha, ha!
–
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And we drove our busdriver apesh!t with this one…
-
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Found a peanut, found a peanut,
Found a peanut just now,
Just now I found a peanut,
Found a peanut just now.
-
Cracked it open, cracked it open,
Cracked it open just now,
Just now I cracked it open,
Cracked it open just now.
-
It was rotten, it was rotten,
It was rotten just now,
Just now it was rotten,
It was rotten just now.
-
Ate it anyway, ate it anyway,
Ate it anyway just now,
Just now I ate it anyway,
Ate it anyway just now.
-
Got a stomach ache, got a stomach ache,
Got a stomach ache just now,
Just now I got a stomach ache,
Got a stomach ache just now.
-
Called the doctor, called the doctor,
Called the doctor just now,
Just now I called the doctor,
Called the doctor just now.
-
Penicillin, Penicillin,
Penicillin just now,
Just now I took Penicillin,
Penicillin just now.
-
Operation, operation,
Operation just now,
Just now an operation,
An operation just now.
-
Died anyway, died anyway,
Died anyway just now,
Just now I died anyway,
Died anyway just now.
-
Went to heaven, went to heaven,
Went to heaven just now,
Just now I went to heaven,
Went to heaven just now.
-
Wouldn’t take me, wouldn’t take me,
Wouldn’t take me just now,
Just now Heaven wouldn’t take me,
Wouldn’t take me just now.
-
Went the other way, went the other way,
Went the other way just now,
Just now I went the other way,
Went the other way just now.
-
Didn’t want me, didn’t want me,
Didn’t want me just now,
Just now they didn’t want me,
Didn’t want me just now.
-
Was a dream, was a dream,
Was a dream just now,
Just now it was a dream,
Was a dream, just now.
-
Then I woke up, then I woke up,
Then I woke up just now,
Just now I woke up,
I woke up just now.
-
Found a peanut, found a peanut,
Found a peanut just now,
Just now I found a peanut,
Found a peanut just now.
-
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Sorry — no TV as a child…
I love the “Found a Peanut” one. Makes me smile when I remember it.
Hee hee geez we made Frank MAD singing that song… totally worth the yellow slip I got for “inciting the peanut gallery.”
ROFL! That is hilarious! That must be one of the best write-ups EVER! Peanut Gallery… hahaha!
Yes!!! I remember “Found a Peanut!” But I don’t think I did the dream and woke-up verses. I think I went from “didn’t want me” to . . . hmmm . . .
Came back, came back,
Came back just now.
Just now I came back,
Came back just now.
And then, of course, ended with the “Found a peanut” verse again.
My mom taught me that one when I was pretty little, and it was AWESOME.
The stepping one they did in Girl Scouts that she also taught me was:
Left, left, left my wife and forty-eight kids,
An old grey mare and a peanut stand!
Think I did right? (*pause*) Right!
Right from the country, hay-foot, straw-foot,
HIP-a-jingle I left. . . .
On the “HIP” you’re supposed to kind of hop to switch feet; I remember having such trouble when I was about six trying to master that!
Does anyone else remember that one? Given that it’s really from the late 1950s/early 1960s, I’m guessing a lot of people on this board will be far too young. . . .
A friend taught me this marching song when I was a kid:
Hut! two, three, four
Hut! two, three, four
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to the other side
Got out of lane
Got hit by a train
And now he’s no chicken no more! Hey!
Hut! two, three, four, ect.
And I learned this one from my grandma:
Hip, hip, I had a good job and I quit
The boss got tired and I got fired
And that’s the reason I quit!
Hip, hip, ect.
I’m a little acorn brown
I am lying on the ground
Somebody came and stepped on me,
That is why I’m cracked, you see!
I’m a nut *tock* *tock*
I’m a nut *tock* *tock*
I’m a nut, I’m a nut I’m a nut!
(either knock on the head or click on the cheek for the *tock*s)
Pepsi Cola came to town
Coca Cola shot him down
Dr. Pepper fixed him up
That’s why I drink 7up
I’m a nut *knock knock*
I’m a nut *knock knock*
I’m a nut, I’m a nut, I’m a nut
The Kookaburra song is actually how I chose my online nickname. My mom would sing that song to me when I was little, she would bounce me on her knee, then at the end of the verse straighten out her leg so I slid down it.
(The funny thing is, because of my handle and the hours I keep, [graveyard shift] most people think I’m Australian. [I'm from Oregon, USA])
What a great mom! I love that song… sang it to my kids when they were babies, too!
Third shift. I don’t envy you that. But I DO miss Oregon.
I’m amazed at the number of us from Oregon, even if we’re not all there anymore. Sure, that makes, what? three of us? but even so, considering how widespread this site is read…It’s pretty cool, IMO.
We had one more verse to Kookaburra:
Kookaburra sits on the old gum rail
Counting all the splinters in his tail.
Cry, Kookaburra! Cry, Kookaburra!
Sore your tail must be!
Excellent! Thanks so much for the new verse!
we had another one..
Kookaburra sits on the electric wire,
jumping up and down with his pants on fire!
laugh, kookaburra laugh,
kookaburra gay your life must be!
quite surprised that it wasn’t just us aussies who sang this song
haha
Haha, we did: Kookaburra sits on an electic wire,
turns on the TV and catches on fire.
burn, kookaburra, burn, kookaburra
short your life must be
ah, we were morbid little children
there was this one i remember doing but completely forgot how it goes, but it involed,
“im sorry to be mean, but you need some listerine.
Not a swish, not a swabble,
but the whole stinkin’ bottle.
Wait! Come back!
you need a tic-tac.
Not a tic, not a tac,
but the whole 6-pack!
Elbow elbow, wrist wrist,
peace punch, capn’ crunch,
brick wall, waterfall,
girl you think you know it all,
you don’t, i do,
so POOF with your attitude!”
…I dont think it goes in that order but i remember those words…anyone else remember?
I did…
A B C Hit it!
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
I like it, uh-huh uh-huh,
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
I like it, uh-huh uh-huh,
You’ve got the moves,
I’ve got the grooves,
so peace, punch, captain crunch,
brick wall, waterfall,
girl you think you know it all,
you don’t, i do,
so peace with the attitude girlfriend,
wait comeback,
you need a tick tac
not one, not two but the whole darn pack
(and then a line i do remember)
get the picture DUH!
all of it was accompanied by various motions
Ching Ching Ching
Lollipop sticks
Make me sick
Not because they’re dirty
Not because they’re clean
Just because I kissed a boy behind the magazine.
If you say “8″ you’re out of the game
(then we see how far we can count until one of us says a number with an 8 in it)
We used to sing a lot of these type songs while jumping rope, too!
Or how about:
Train, train, number nine,
going down Chicago line,
if the train runs off its track,
will you get your money back,
yes or no?
And:
Down, down, baby
down by the roller coaster,
Sweet, sweet baby,
why don’t you hold me closer?
Shimmy, shimmy, cocoa pop,
Shimmy, shimmy, Pow!
Shimmy, shimmy, cocoa pop,
Shimmy, shimmy, Pow!
I like coffee, I like tea,
I like the little boys,
but they hate me.
Little boys, little boys,
Don’t you shout!
Hot dog baby and you are out!
(There were hand motions that went along with certain words. Guns with your hands for “Pow!”, making a “T” with your hands when saying “tea”. Pointing at yourself with “me” and putting one hand over your shoulder with the thumbs up sign to make it be “outta here” with “out”.)
Two, four, six, eight,
who do we appreciate?
Boys! Boys!
Put ‘em in a high chair,
Stuff ‘em in a jar,
Flush ‘em down the toilet,
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Jump roping songs:
Blue bells,
cockle shells,
eevy, ivy, over!
–
Cinderella, dressed in yella,
went up-stairs to kiss her fella,
made a mistake and kissed a snake.
How many doctors did it take?
(1, 2, 3, 4,…)
–
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
turn around!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
touch the ground!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Turn off the light!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Say good night!
[Or any version thereof.]
For deciding who goes 1st in an outdoor game:
One potato, two potato, three potato, four…
or the simple:
Eeny Meeine Miney Mo
Ohman! These bring back so many memories!
Down down baby down by the rollercoaster
sweet sweet baby I’ll never letcha go
shimmy shimmy cocoa pop
shimmy shimmy POW!
shimmy shimmy cocoa pop
shimmy shimmy POW!
I had a boyfriend (a-biscuit)
he’s so cool (a-biscuit)
Like my swimming pool (a-biscuit)
Ice cream soda with a cherry on top
I say ooh-cha-momma, oh my honey
Ooh-cha-momma, oh my gal
I had a ____? and this is what he told me:
Got a A B C D, E F G, gotta H I J K
LMNOP, gotta Q R S, gotta T U V, gotta W X, gotta Y and Z
You gotta smooth-stop, you gotta smooth-stop
You gotta scream!!
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 elephants, elephants, elephants
jump the fence, fence, fence.
They jumped so high, high, high
they touched the sky, sky, sky
and they never came back, back, back
til the fourth of July, July, July!
Miss Susie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell,
Miss Susie went to heaven, the steamboat went to
Hello operator, give me number 9
and if you disconnect me, I’ll kick you from
Behind the fridgerator, there was a piece of glass
Miss Susie sat upon it, and broke her big fat
ask me no more questions, I’ll tell you no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom zipping up their
flies are in the meadow, the bees are in the park
Miss Susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the
D-A-R-K D-A-R-K darkdarkdarkdarkdark!!
Oh darling playmate, come out and play with me
and bring your dollies three
climb up my apple tree
slide down my rainbow
into my cellar door
and we’ll be jolly friends
forever more!
(man that sounds creepy in retrospect)
I remember many of the others posted above as well! and the one that ends “Chinese Japanese Indian CHIEF” we’d pull our eyelids up, down, then cross our arms. Oy!
In addition to jumprope, did anyone play Chinese jumprope? It was a stretchy loop that two people held on their ankles or knees and there were foot positions like the ice cream cone and sand box…and the third person jumped “two four six eight in out in ON!” Man that was fun.
Yeh only it’s French skipping here. No idea which country it comes from though.
I played chinese jumprope! I had a whole book on it that came with 2 ‘ropes’. I wonder where it is now…
Aggravation
Reabilitation
Aggravation
This is how you play:
First you take a garden hose
Then you stick it up your nose
Turn it on, let it go
Oh-oh-oh!
Aggravation
Reabilitation
Aggravation
This is how you play:
First you take a bowling ball
Then you role it down the hall
Wake your dad, make him mad
Oh-oh-oh!
Aggravation
Reabilitation
Aggravation
This is how you play:
First you take a pillow case
Then you wrap it round your face
Go to bed, wake up dead
Now you’re done!
I do remember parts of that, but we didn’t sing it very often.
“Apples on a stick,
Make me sick,
Make my tummy go two for the tick,
Not because I’m dirty,
Not because I’m clean,
Not because I kissed a boy on the back of the magazine.
Heeeyyy girls,
Want to have some fun,
Here comes Johnny with his pants undone.
He can wiggle,
He can waggle,
He can do the splits,
But I bet you five dollars he can’t do this.
Count to ten with his eyes closed.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10!
You’re a big fat Hen”.
That is the one we always played.
Another one:
Coca-Cola went to town,
Pepsi-Cola shot him down.
Dr. Pepper fixed him up,
now they call him 7Up!
I’m a nut, in a rut,
I’m craaaazy.
(Or ending with:
I’m a nut, I’m a nut,
I’m an N-U-T-T, nutt!)
when we were little, my cousin taught my all my favourite clapping games. I don’t know how popular it is, but High Low Picka-low was one of the most fun to play, the point being to go faster each time you played.
we would put our own hands palm to palm and then pat the back of each other’s hands while saying “my… name… is…”, then stop with two of our hands resting back to back between us. with our free hands we’d clap above the hands in the middle for “high”, below the our hands for the word “low” and we’d pat our own hand in the middle for “picka” the rhyme went like this:
“My
name
is
High
low
pickle
low
picka
low
high
low
high
low
picka
low
picka
low
YO!”
The ‘yo!’ part was more of a high five. I can still do this game at light-speed, haha.
I grew up near Corvallis, OR and these were the versions I had:
Miss Suzie had a steamboat
The steamboat had a bell (ding ding)
Miss Suzie went to heaven
The steamboat went to
Hello operator, please give me number nine
And if you disconnect me, I’ll cut off your
Behind the ‘fridgerator, there lay a piece of glass
Miss Suzie sat upon it and broke her little
Ask me no more questions
Please tell me no more lies
The boys are in the bathroom
Zipping up their flies (zip zip)
The flies are in the city
The bees are in the park
The boys and girls are kissing in the D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K
Dark, Dark, Dark!
And do you know my ma, do you know my pa?
Do you know my sister with the forty acre bra?
(talk about a lyric shift! Reading the others, we had the flies part completely different XD)
also,
I went to a Chinese Restaurant to buy a loaf of bread
He asked me what my name was
And this is what I said
I said a-ha, ha
Chicolo-chicolo
Pom-pom beauty
Don’t drink whiskey
(clap change)
Inka-binka bottle-a ink
Inka-binka boo!
Inka-binka soda cracker
Out goes you!
The second we usually played in groups larger than two, clapping hands on each side, narrowing it down until it was a showdown between the final two players.
Wow! Most of my really young days were spent in WA, but from ten on I lived in Lebanon! (And our version was still so different. Crazy!)
I know two variations..
Patty cake patty cake
baker’s man
bake me a cake as fast as you can
prick it and pat it
and mark it with a B
for baby and me!
Or the one my mom did most…
Patty cake patty cake
baker’s man
bake me a cake as fast as you can
roll it up roll it up
throw it in a pan!
YAY!
(It always ended with YAY!)
When I was a kid, the one that was most popular at my school in Lancashire, England, went:
Chinese men are very funny
This is how they count their money
Oosha, oosha
Turn around and boosha
This way, that way
Turn around
MEOW!
There was also this one, which took a fair amount of verbal dexterity at great speed and, of course, made no sense:
Hi-lo chickalo
Chickalo hi-lo
Hi chicka lo-jo
Chickalo split
Have just remembered the rest of that second one:
I went to a Chinese resturant
To buy a loaf of bread, bread, bread
He wrapped it up in a five-pound note
And this is what he said, said, said:
He told me:
Hi-lo chickalo
Chickolocka hi-lo
Hey chicka lo-jo
Chocolate chick
Apparently chinese resturants selling bread has been legendary for a while…
Glory, glory, Halluyah!
My teacher hit me with a ruler!
I smaked her on the bean,
with a frozen Jimmy Dean
and she ain’t my teacher no more!
*LMAO* at frozen Jimmy Dean………..
Fabulous!!
How about this one:
Glory Glory Hallelujah
Teacher hit me with a ruler
Met her at the door
With a loaded .44
And the teacher don’t teach no more!
And isn’t it amazing that we didn’t have the school shootings even though we had songs like that?
Does anyone remember this one?
Hi, my name is Joe
and I work . . . in . . . a button factory
I have a wife, a dog, and a fa-mi-ly
One day, my boss said,
“Hey, Joe, are you busy?” I said, “No!”
“Then turn the wheel with your right hand!”
(start moving right hand in a circular motion, and repeat over and over moving as many limbs as you can handle. For us it usually ended with us cracking up when we tried saying it with our tongues out XD)
Hi, my name is joe
I have a wife and three kids and I work in a button factory
One day my boss said to me ‘joe are you busy’ i said no
He says the work with your right hand(do motion)
Hi my name is joe, I have a wife and 3 kids and I work in a button factory
one day my boss said to me joe are you busy I said no
then work with your left hand..
repeat till you’re out of body parts and when your boss says ‘joe are you busy’ you scream YES
I played that during Girl Scout Camp, and there was a slight variation for
Sunday school about father Abraham
“Father Abraham had many sons, many sons had Father Abraham
I am one of them and so are you, so let’s all praise the Lord” then
whichever body part came first, but I can’t recall how it ended.
I remember that one too!
At the end of each repetition of the verse you’d add a body part to move: right arm, left arm, right foot, left foot, turn around!
(so you were marching in place while turning around)
And then finally: sit down! (the end)
yes! i remember this one! we used to do it all the time in primary school lol
We had a little longer conversation between joe and his boss:
One day, my boss came up to me, he said:
Hey Joe, how you doin’? Are you busy?
I said No
He said Push this button with your right hand.
I loved the jazzy kinda beat to this one.
I remember that one, but our Joe didn’t have a wife, dog, or family. The rest was pretty much the same, though.
Hee hee! Another corker…
First grade babies
Second grade tots
Third grade angels
Fourth grade snots
Fifth grade peaches
Sixth grade plums
And all the rest are
Dirty Bums!
Did you ever hear/play this one?
A sailor went to sea, sea, sea, [right hand went up to make a salute/shade for the eye on each 'sea' in each line]
To see what he could sea, sea, sea.
But all that he could sea, sea, sea,
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea.
A sailor went to long, long, long, [players extended their own hands out to show length, going further with each 'long']
To see what he could long, long, long.
But all that he could long, long, long
Was the bottom of the deep blue long, long, long.
A sailor went to short, short, short, [players reversed the 'long' action, bringing their hands closer together]
To see what he could short, short, short.
But all that he could short, short, short,
Was the bottom of the deep blue short, short, short.
A sailor went to sea, long, short, [player did one of each of the above actions for each word in 'sea, long, short']
To see what he could sea, long, short.
But all that he could sea, long, short,
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, long, short.
Yep! I wasn’t very good at that one, ’cause I learned it late in my hand-clapping years, but it was a riot to attempt!
We started out with Sea, Sea, Sea but then the next verses would include actual countries and places.
I remember:
A sailor went to China,
To see what he could China
and all the he could China
was the bottom of the deep blue China
Not saying it makes sense…….:)
Ok, this is one from camp that we used to clap to – although I totally don’t remember all of it. I know it had more verses.
There are suitors at my door
(o-el-eyah-boh-ney-yah)
six or eight or maybe more
(o-el-eyah-boh-ney-yah)
and my father wants me wed
(o-el-eyah-boh-ney-yah)
or at least that’s what he said
(o-el-eyah-boh-ney-yah)
Oh ley oh lai
oh lah oh ley
oh ley oh lai
oh lah oh ley
So I left the very next day
(o-el-eyah-boh-ney-yah)
For I knew I could not stay
(o-el-eyah-boh-ney-yah)
And I found my own true love
(o-el-eyah-boh-ney-yah)
And he comes from heaven above
(o-el-eyah-boh-ney-yah)
Oh ley oh lai
oh lah oh ley
oh ley oh lai
oh lah oh ley
And then you look really serious. We were all early emo, when we sang that song back in, oh, ’88.
Girl Scout Camp
Anyone remember:
Crock-a-dilly-oom-bop, crock-crock-crock,
dance-suga-suga, chigga-chigga-rock,
fa lo-fa lo-falofalofalo
falo-hop-scotch-chigga-mush!
I can’t remember it exactly… *scratches head*
Did anyone ever play these?
Shame shame shame
I don’t wanna go to Mexico no more more more
There’s a big fat policeman at my door door door
He grabbed me by the collar
Made me pay a dollar
I don’t wanna go to Mexico no more more more
Shame!
Shame shame shame
I wanna go to Hollywood some more more more
There’s a big cute guy at my door door door
He grabbed me by the hips
Kissed me on the lips
I wanna go to Hollywood some more more more
Shame!
I remember that we would try to be the first one to say the last “shame” and point at the other person. That’s how you’d win, haha.
yep.
I distinctly remember one that started
Big Mac
Fillet o fish
And that’s all I recall. It wasn’t the “typical” clapping game. It started with each person holding their hands together palms facing and you would smack the back of your left hands together. A little help?
I was just thinking about that one!
Big Mac, fillet o’ fish
Quarter pounder, french fries.
Icy Coke, thick shake
Sundaes and apple pies.
And I can’t really describe the hand motion, but it started with palms together and then we hit them back and forth, held them against each other and then slapped right hands above and below the left. It led to a hand holding, a hip smacking and I think a snap. Heh. I’m going to be chanting that in my head for the rest of the night.
Hi! I’m in Louisville, Kentucky and I played “hand-clap” all the time when I was little. We did a few of the one’s on here with a few variations.
Miss Sue (Clap clap)
Miss Sue (Clap clap)
Miss Sue from Alabama (Hand clap pattern)
Her name is Suzianna
Sittin in a rocker (rocking chair motions)
Eatin Betty Crocker (eating motions)
Watching that clock go
Tick-Tock-Tick- Tock-Bananas (metronome motions with tick tock and the circling ear motion for bananas)
Tick-Tock-Tick- Tock-Bananas
ABCDEFG (circle face)
Wipe those boy germs off’a me! (brushing off motion)
Bet’cha can’t
Bet’cha can’t
Bet’cha can’t (clap together)
FREEZE!
The person who moved first lost.
Another is:
Miss Suzie had a steamboat
The steamboat had a bell *toot*toot*
The steamboat went to Heaven
Miss Suzie went to
Hello operator, give me number 9
And if you disconnect me, I’ll kick you in the
Behind the ‘fridgerator there was a piece of glass
Miss Suzie sat upon and broke her little
Ask me no more questions, I’ll tell you no more lies,
The boys are in the bathroom zipping up their
Flies are in the medow, the bees are in the park
Miss Suzie and her boyfriend are kissing in the
D A R K
D A R K
D A R K
Dark Dark Dark!
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 50 cents cents cents
To see the elephants elephants elephants
Jump the fence fence fence
They jumped so high high high
They reached the sky sky sky
And didn’t come back back back
Until the Fourth of July lie lie
And my little sister and my favorite:
Shame, shame, shame
I don’t wanna go to Mexico no more more more
There’s a big, fat policeman at the door door door.
He will grab you by the collar
Make you pay a dollar
I don’t wanna go to Mexico no more more more
Shame!
When we shouted Shame! we had to smack each other on the forehead. Who ever hit first totally one. Yay for gratuitous violence!
I remember one from when I was in elementary school. A group of us would stand in circle with on in the middle so they could dance during the “shake it” part.
I was going to Kentucky I was going to the fair,
I met a Senorita with flowers in her hair
Oh shake it senorita shake it while you can
shake it like a milk shake, shake it once again
Oh waddle to the bottom, waddle to the top
Then turn around turn around till you make a stop
S-T-O-P spells stop (then whoever the person in the middle would stop at would be next to be in the middle).
I remember another that went to the tune of “Rockin’ Robin” but all I can remember is “King Kong’s rubber ding-dong” and “brother’s in jail serving fruit cocktail”
I remember the Kentucky one! Ours was:
I’m going to Kentucky, I’m going the the fair
To see the senoritas with flowers in their hair.
Shake it, shake it, shake it.
Shake it all you can.
And if you cannot shake it, then do the best you can.
Round, round, round she goes, where she stops nobody knows!
Does anyone remember one about Abraham and his 7 sons? (Abraham hjad 7 sons, 7 sons had Abraham.” All I remember is the ending when one course had “They all went to Amster *shh*” etc, and the next was “We’re gonna say it anyway, we’re gonna say it anyway – Amster- Amster-dam, dam dam”
Ooohhh…we were *so* risque! lol
Circle one i used to do:
Stella Ella Olla
Pat pat pat
Singin’ Es teego teego
teego teego tap tap
Es teego teego
baloney baloney
cheese and macaroni (alternate- ham and ravioli)
1-2-3-4-5!
and if the person who was “4″ caught the hand of the would be “5″, “5″ would be out, if “4″ missed, “4″ was out, until there was 2 people left, with 2 it was the up down, and the person coming from the top, was “4″ the person at the bottom was “5″
and a couple single people ones:
Poor Pinocchio One
he learned to suck his thumb
thumb after thumb half past one
cross (both would cross their hands hitting their shoulders,)
down (both would slap their own thighs)
AND (would clap their own hands together before returning to the regular pattern which could be diff depending on who you played with)
Poor Pinocchio two
he learned to tie his shoe
shoe after shoe after half past two
cross
down
and
and it went on to three, climb a tree
four, close the door
five, do the jive
six, pick up sticks
seven, go to heaven
eight, close the gate
nine, read the time
ten, start again
this one is a clapping one that was a little different:
the clapping for this one goes
clap your hands together
right hands (both players meet in the middle) together
clap your hands together
left hands (both players meet in the middle) together
said together:
This is a game of concentration
No repeats or hesitation
first person: I’ll go first
second person: I’ll go second
first person: The category is?
second person: (picks a category… usually names, movies, songs but could be anything)
then they go back and forth with things that fit the category, until one of them hesitates or repeats
is anyone familiar with this one?
bobo-skee-wahton-tahton
eh-eh-say boys are rotten (or “boom boom boom boom”)
itty bitty wahton-tahton
bobo-skee-wahton-tahton
bobo-skee-wahton-tahton
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
if you said ten, you were out.
Totally remember a wee variation of this one.
My school had
obo shen ahten tahten
ay-ay boom boom boom boom
itty bitty ahten tahten
obo shen ahten tahten
obo shen ahten tahten
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Minnesota
I remember
“Stella Stella Olla
Quack Quack Quack
Singing es teego teego
Teego Teego Tack
Singing es teego teego
Vello Vello Vello Vello Vellooova
1-2-3-4-5!”
What the heck did I just say? *lol*
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey’s meat
Little birdie’s dirty feet
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
and me without a spoon.
We sang it this way:
Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts
mutilated monkey meat
little birdies bloody feet
eighteen eyeballs rollin’ up and down the street
and i forgot my spoon
yum
And we sang it:
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Boys are made of greasy grimy gopher guts
mutilated monkey meat
chopped up baby parakeet
boys are made of greasy grimy gopher guts
hanging on the mess hall door
ICK!
and we don’t want no more!
Our version was a little different! Gads haven’t thought of this in eons!
Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated Monkey Meat
Itsy bitsy birdies feet
French fried eyeballs in a can of blood
And I for got my spoooon!!
Ours continued from this:
And we called it CAAAT sandwich,
Mustard ontop!
Greasy eyeballs and camel slop!
All these things are mixed in a pot,
And you give a little puke with a cherry ontop!
Bop!
Gobs and gobs of gushy goshy gopher guts
insulated monkey meat
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey’s meat
Little birdie’s dirty feet
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
and I forgot my spoon………
But I’ve got me straw….
Great Green Globs of
Greasy, Grimy, Gopher Guts
Mutilated Monkey Meat
Petrified Mummies Feet
All Wrapped Up in
All Purple Porpoise Pus
And Me Without a Spoon…
How About a Straaaaaw?
this was an awesome blast from the past…
Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
simulated parakeet
chopped up baby monkey feet
french-fried eyeballs rolling down a one-way street
forgot my spoon, but i brought a straw
*big loud slurping sound*
Boys are made of
greasy grimy gopher guts
mutilated monkey meat
smashed up baby’s feet
french fried eyeballs rolling on a toilet
and i for-got my spoon!!
yum yum!
I just saw a little boy trying to do a clapping game with his dad in the elevator this morning.
Like the little girls in the video, we did several of the ones listed in the comments, but all run together–you just continued on through Miss Mary Mack, Miss Suzy and her steamboat and her baby Tim, as many verses as you could remember or until you totally messed up the clapping pattern. Some verses had more elaborate clapping patterns requiring hand-gestures that went with the text.
We also did the “Bullfrog” song mentioned above, in a circle.
Hehe… I am going to go to bed with these silly songs in my head (hehe that rhymed and I didnt even realize it till just now.
Here is one that I didnt see done but I remember doing this both as clapping and for jump rope when I was a kid.
Cinderella Dressed in Yella
Went upstairs to kiss the fella
Made a mistake and kissed a snake
How many Doctors will it take?
One
Two
Three
And pretty much it went on and on till you screwed up on the jump rope.
I miss being a kid sometimes.
I scrolled through every single one of the posts hoping to see that someone posted this one! Totally my favorite
I remember playing this one before dance recitals.
Potato chips go crunch crunch crunch
Into my tummy- yummy yummy yummy
Some more, some more, some more, some more, some more
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9——–10!
Or the train track version of it.
Of course my personal favorite was Rocking Robin.
Anyone remember Anna Banana?
Heh, I remember Miss Susie (or Miss Mary as it was in our version) and her steamboat. Ours was nearly word for word what the girls in the video sang. I also remember See See My Playmate. And these two:
(Hand rhythm is right hand moves down while left hand moves up to clap with partner who does the same motion, then switch hands so left goes down and right goes up. Then clap both hands against your partners hands, then clap your own together. Repeat until specified.)
The saints go: bo bo
Shee wah ten tah ten
Eh eh eh eh
*Boom boom boom (Clap hands with your partner on each “boom” then resume the previous rhythm)
Itty bitty wah ten tah ten
Bo bo shee wah ten tah ten
One shot two shot three shot
*FREEZE! (Hold both hands out in the shapes of guns and stare at your partner, beginning a staring contest. First to blink or move lost.)
And the Kit Kat song, with a rather more complicated hand rhythm:
(Hand rhythm was: hold your hands palms together pointing at your partner, swing them to your left as your partner does the same to hit the back of your left hand on theirs. Repeat the other way to hit the backs of your right hands together, then once again to the left, stopping with your left hands touching. Clap your own hands together, just moving your right hand while your left is up against your partner’s left. Leave the backs of your left hands together, and pick your right hands up to clap above your left hands. Then clap your right hands against your left ones again. Then clap them against each other’s under your joined left hands. Leave your right hands palm-to-palm, pull your left hand away from your partner’s, and clap it against your partner’s left, once more below your palm-to-palm right hands. Leave your left hands palm-to-palm, hit your right hand against your right hip, and then lift it up to snap it midair. To finish off, (with your left hands still pressed together) clap your right hands together, follow through beyond your partner’s hand, then swing back to hit the backs of your right hands together. Then put your palms back together and repeat the whole process. Geez, that’s hard to describe without being able to demonstrate!)
Words:
Gimme a break
Gimme a break
Break me off a piece
Of that Kit Kat bar!
Gimme a break
Gimme a break
Break me off a piece
Of that Kit Kat bar!
It’s a chocolatey taste
That’s gonna make your day
Wherever you go
You hear the people say:
Gimme a break
Gimme a break
Break me off a piece of that
Break me off a piece of that
Break me off a piece
Of that Kit Kat bar!
Wow, no one did the oreo cookie song?
How do you eat an oreo cookie?
First you take the top off,
Then you eat the middle.
That’s how you eat an oreo cookie.
This was one of the more elaborate hand-claps, though.
Ours was:
Do you know exactly how to eat an Oreo?
Well, to do it
You unscrew it
Very fast
‘Cause the kid who’ll eat the middle of an Oreo first
Gets to save the chocolate outside for the last!
I learned it at summer camp from New York area girls.
I’d forgotten most of these.
The one we had in my school went like this:
“Fudge! Fudge!
Send it to the Judge
Wrap it up in tissue paper
Send it down the escalator
5-4-3-2-1
Split!”
I’m sure there were more verses, but I can’t remeber them.
Bo bo sey ott en tot
nay nay I am bo bo
itty bitty ott en tot
bo bo sey ott en tot
bo bo sey ott en tot
boom!
i knew one very very similar to it.
bo bo she otten cotton
nay nay i am your bo bo
bo bo she otten cotton
bo bo she otten cotton
bo bo she otten cotton
bang!
with hands held up like guns at bang.
when playing tag, determining who is “it”,
peaches peaches pears plum,
out goes you and your best chum!
whoever it landed on got to take a hand out from the center, and pick someone else to remove a hand. went on until there was one hand left lol.
I realize this thread is supposed to be about clapping songs (but we’ve digressed); did anyone mention this jump rope song, which was totally one of my faves and I caught my daughter doing it with her buddies just last week?
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Not last night, but the night before
24 Robbers came knocking at my door
As I ran out (Run out of the jump rope)
They ran in (Run back in the jump rope and start jumping again)
I asked them what they wanted and this is what they said:
Spanish dancer turn around (turn ½ turn each time you jump)
Spanish dancer touch the ground (touch ground once when you are jumping)
Spanish dancer give a high kick (kick in the air once)
Spanish dancer get out before you miss (get out of the jump rope)
Oh holy crap! I’d TOTALLY forgotten about that one! I DO remember it!! Thank you so much for the reminder! Now I have yet another one to teach my kids–it’s wonderful that things like this are still alive.
Candy apples makes me sick
makes my tummy go 246
not because I’m dirty
not because I’m clean
not because I kissed a boy behind a magazine.
Hey girls how ’bout a fight
here comes (insert name of girl here) with her pants on tight
she can wiggle, she can giggle, she can do the splits
but most of all she can kiss kiss kiss
with her red hot lips lips lips
There was also a fire cracker fire cracker boom boom boom. I don’t remember the rest.
However I do remember that our “bread” song ended with Chinese,* eyes slanted up*. Japanese, *eyes slanted down*. Siamese, *one going each why*. Dirty knees, *touch both knees*. Look at these,* pull shirt out to make it look like you have big breasts.*
aahh the good old days, before we knew what it all meant…
Mindless lemming-like chanting FTW!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this one!
Hey grrrls, how about a fight
I’ve got two, both sung by Shirley Ellis. The one was mentioned here.
Three, six, nine
The goose drank wine
The monkey chewed tobacco
On the streetcar line
The line broke
The monkey got choked
And they all went to Heaven
In a little row boat
Clap, pat, clap, pat
Clap, pat, clap, slap
Clap, pat, clap your hand
Pat it on your partners hand
Right hand, clap, pat
Clap your hand cross it
With your left arm
Pat your partners left palm
Cap, pat, clap your hand
Pat your partners right palm
With your right palm again
Clap, slap
Slap your hands, slap your thigh
And sing a little song, go
My mother told me
If I was goody
That she would buy me
A rubber dolly
My auntie told her
I kissed a soldier
Now she won’t buy me
A rubber dolly
Three, six, nine
The goose drank wine
The monkey chewed tobacco
On the streetcar line
The line broke
The monkey got choked
And they all went to Heaven
In a little row boat
Clap, pat
Clap your hands and prepare to pat
Clap, take your right arm
Pat your partners right palm
With your right palm
Clap, take your hand back and clap
Pat, take your right arm
Cross your right arm with your left arm
Pat your partners left palm
With your left palm
Clap, take your hand back and clap
Pat, take your right arm
Cross your left arm
Pat your partners right palm
With your right palm
Clap, now back with the clap
Take the pats of your palms
And slap your thighs
And watch the fun materialize
As you sing this little song
My mother told me
If I was goody
That she would buy me
A rubber dolly
My auntie told her
I kissed a soldier
Now she won’t buy me
A rubber dolly
Three, six, nine
The goose drank wine
The monkey chewed tobacco
On the streetcar line
The line broke
The monkey got choked
And they all went to Heaven
On a little row boat
Clap, pat, clap, pat
Clap, pat, clap, slap
Clap, pat, clap, pat
Clap, pat, clap, slap….
And although not a clapping song of sorts, I think it needs to be mentioned…
The name game!
Shirley!
Shirley, Shirley bo Birley Bonana fanna fo Firley
Fee fy mo Mirley, Shirley!
Lincoln!
Lincoln, Lincoln bo Bincoln Bonana fanna fo Fincoln
Fee fy mo Mincoln, Lincoln!
Come on everybody!
I say now let’s play a game
I betcha I can make a rhyme out of anybody’s name
The first letter of the name, I treat it like it wasn’t there
But a B or an F or an M will appear
And then I say bo add a B then I say the name and Bonana fanna and a
fo
And then I say the name again with an F very plain
and a fee fy and a mo
And then I say the name again with an M this time
and there isn’t any name that I can’t rhyme
Arnold!
Arnold, Arnold bo Barnold Bonana fanna fo Farnold
Fee fy mo Marnold Arnold!
But if the first two letters are ever the same,
I drop them both and say the name like
Bob, Bob drop the B’s Bo ob
For Fred, Fred drop the F’s Fo red
For Mary, Mary drop the M’s Mo ary
That’s the only rule that is contrary.
Okay? Now say Bo: Bo
Now Tony with a B: Bony
Then Bonana fanna fo: bonana fanna fo
Then you say the name again with an F very plain: Fony
Then a fee fy and a mo: fee fy mo
Then you say the name again with an M this time: Mony
And there isn’t any name that you can’t rhyme
Every body do Tony!
Pretty good, let’s do Billy!
Very good, let’s do Marsha!
A little trick with Nick!
The name game
another verse to -
My Mama told me
If I was goodie
That she would buy me
A rubber dolly.
My auntie told her
I kissed a soldier
Now Mom won’t buy me
No rubber dolly.
But now I’m older
And I don’t care for toys
All I care for
Is kissing boys, boys,
Boys, boys, boys.
wow i was surprized noone put this one yet! :
There’s a place on Mars
where the women smoke cigars
and the men wear bikini’s
and the children drink martinis
every breath – you – take
is enough to kill a snake
when the snake is dead you put roses on its head
when the roses die you put diamonds in its eyes
when the diamonds crack you put mustard on its back
when the mustard fades you call in the Queen of Spades
and the Queen of Spades says: “FREEZE”
you’d quickly freeze still and whoever moved lost.
i remember this one! we had just a few differences. the last part was:
when the snake is dead, you pour mustard on its head,
when the mustard dries, you put diamonds in its eyes,
when the diamonds break, its in 1948.
no idea where the year came from. i knew this in the early 90s.
My mother gave me a nickel
My father gave me a dime
My sister gave me Tom Cruise
To kiss me all the time time time
My mother took back that nickel
My father took back that dime
My sister took back Tom Cruise
And gave me Frankenstein stein stein
I kicked him over London
I kicked him over France
I kicked him over Washington
And he lost his underpants pants pants!
Granted, this was back in the Top Gun days before craziness took over Mr. Cruise.
Different version I learned:
My ma gave me a nickel
My pa gave me a dime
My sister gave me a boyfriend
Who kissed me all the time
My ma took back the nickle
My pa took back the dime
My sister took the boyfriend
And gave me Frankenstien
He made me wash the dishes
He made me wash the floor
He made me wash his underwear
So I kicked him out the door
I kicked him over London
I kicked him over France
I kicked him to Hawaii
To do the hula dance!
I know I know my ma
I know I know my pa
I know I know my sister
With the 40 acre bra
My mother is godzilla
My father is king kong
My brother is the stupid one
Who made me sing this song!
my version is
Patty cake, Patty Cake
Bakers Man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
roll it
pat it
mark it with a B
and put it in the oven for
baby and me!
Jingle bells!
Batman smells!
Robin laid an egg!
The batmobile,
lost its wheel,
and the Joker got away!
yours is the one I remember, but then I heard my young cousin sing it this way at the end, and it cracked me up:
and the joker took ballet!
like that is some awful insult for a boy…
does any one know the repeat
vista
*vista
cumala vista
*cumala vista
na na na na na na na vista
*na na na na na na na vista
einie meanie deci meanie oo ah oo alla meanie dessa meinie solla meanie oo ah oo ah
*einie meanie deci meanie oo ah oo alla meanie dessa meinie solla meanie oo ah oo ah
beatin billy oatin doatin bo bo ba deetin dottin ahhhh!
*beatin billy oatin doatin bo bo ba deetin dottin ahhhh!
vista was banned after my youth group learned it at a camp. in order to drive the youth director nuts, someone just had to say “vista!”
Patty Cake, Patty Cake
Baker’s man
bake me a cake as fast as you can
roll it, pat it
mark it with a _
and put it in the oven for _____ and me!
_____=whoever youre playing patty cake with
a couple of my faves which I taught to the kids a daycare center I used to work at:
I went to a chinese restaurant to buy a loaf of bread bread bread
he asked me what my name was and this is what I said said said
myyy naaame is e i e i ick en ay pom pom poodle wally wally wiskers
my name is elvis presly girls are sexy sitting in a bath tub drinking diet pepsi’s my name is cheif!
Incredible….I was reading through all this and i wondered if all you ladies, like me, were in a flash back to grade school. Amazing the same things are still around. LOL Like jumping rope to this chant:
Not last night, but the night before
24 robbers were knocking at my door
As I ran out…
They came in…
And hit me on the head with a rolling pin!
I asked them what they wanted,
And this is what they said:
Spanish Dancer, turn around
Spanish Dancer touch the ground
Spanish Dancer do the splits
Spanish Dancer run out like this!
How about Johnny? Cross-down when Johnny was one, he learned to suck his thumb, thumb diddle, thumb diddle, half-past one! And so on with two and three …
And then there was
Lemonade, crunch the ice
Beat it once, beat it twice
Turn around, touch the ground
Now freeze!
I can’t believe I’m the only one who knows this version (granted i’ve not heard of miss suzy)
Mary had a canary, she also had a duck,
she took em behind the kitchen door and taught em how to
Fry an egg for dinner, fry an egg for tea,
Peter had a boat, the boat began to rock,
up jumped jaws and bit him in the
Ask no questions, tell no lies,
I saw three chinamen doing up their
Flies are bad, mosquitos are worse,
ok, so I don’t actually remember it all (am I really that old???)
I’ll update later hopefully!
oooh i remember this one too!! we sung it a tad differently though
Aunty Mary had a canary, she also had a duck
she took them behind the kitchen door and taught them how to
Fried eggs for breakfast, fried eggs for tea,
the more you eat, the more you drink, the more you gotta
Peter had a boat, the boat began to rock
up came Jaws and bit off his
cocktails, gingerale, 40 cents a glass
if you don’t like it then shove it up your
ask no questions, tell no lies,
i saw a bunch of guys doing up their
flys are bad, mosquitos are worse
and this is the end of my funny little verse!
honestly..i remember as a kid and even now seeing this that i dont remember any hierarchy of girls handing down these sacred stories and songs from generation to generation and reversal or practice…it was just you girls and somehow, like a ancient calling sunk into your genetics, knew these games…please, after all these years, tell us your secret!…
this has got to be the most epic win of all nostalgia trips…nowhere here is there a product or something we consumed, but this was something that we did, we created and have never let go of…my hats off to you poster
My mom gave me a penny she said go buy a henny but I didn’t buy no henny instead I bought some bubble gum bazooka zooka bubble gum.
My mom gave me a nickle she said go buy a pickle but I didn’t buy no pickle no I didn’t buy no pickle instead I bought some bubble gum bazooka zooka bubble gum.
My mom gave me a dime she said go buy a lime, but I didn’t buy no lime instead I bought some bubblegum bazooka zooka bubblegum.
My mom gave me a quarter she said go buy some water but I didn’t buy no water instead I bought some bubble gum bazooka zooka bubblegum.
My mom gave me a dollar she said go by a collar but I didn’t buy no collar instead I choked on bubble gum bazooka zooka bubblegum
My daughter and her buddy were singing this one last night — they were trying to gross me out, I’m sure !
Nobody likes me
Everybody hates me
Guess I’ll eat some worrrrrrmmsss
Fat ones, skinny ones, oochy, goochy go ones,
Ones that squiggle and squirrrrmmmm
First you cut the head off
Then you suck the juice out
Then you throw the skin awaaaayyyy
Nobody knows how girls can live on worms
Three times a daaaayyy Boom ba de ah da….. boom boom.
Check out this book with a whole bunch of these clapping games along with the instructions. I think Klutz has one too, but I can’t seem to find it.
how about,
i’m bringing home a baby bumblebee, won’t my mommy be so proud of me? i’m bringing home a baby bumblebee “OUCH HE STUNG ME”
i’m squishing up the baby bumblebee, won’t my mommy be so proud of me?
i’m squishing up the baby bumblebee “Eww he’s gooey”
i’m licking up the baby bumblebee, now my mommy won’t be mad at me
i’m licking up the baby bumblebee “Mmm hes yummy”
oh
did anyone learn Little Bunny Foo Foo? i only remember
“little bunny foo foo hopping through the forest scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head”
haha! no, keep it going!
i’m licking up my bumblebee (etc)
*i don’t feel so good*
i’m throwing up my baby bumblebee
*ew, i made a mess*
i’m mopping up my baby bumblebee
*ew now the mop is yuck*
yeah, ok, as kids we just kept going til we got bored..which could take a while!!
I remember Little Bunny Foo Foo! We sung it at Brownies
“little bunny foo foo hopping through the forest scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head
Then along came the gooood fairy and she said:
Little bunny foo foo I don’t want to see you scooping up all the field mice and bopping them on the head
Now I’ll give you x more chances to mend your ways
and if you don’t I’ll turn you into a Goooooon”
x being the number of chances, it changed with how annoying we wanted to be.
great stuff. we would always do this one for easter with little bunny hats. usually followed up by the bunny hop. I miss childhood!
Going progressively faster in word and gesture, here’s the version my mom did:
Pattycake, patty cake,
Baker’s Man,
Bake me a cake as fast as you can!
Roll ‘em up, roll ‘em up,
Slap ‘em in the pan!
The Gesture Song I always did with kids:
Little bunny Foo-foo, hopping through the forest
Scooping up the field mice, bopping ‘em on the head!
And down came the Good Fairy and she said,
“Little Bunny Foo-foo, I don’t wanna see you
Scooping up the field mice and bopping ‘em on the head.
I’ll give you 3 more chances, then I’m turning you into a GOON!”
3 more repetitions, and then:
“I gave you 3 chances; now I’m turning you into a GOON!”
Suitable kooky gestures and gobbledy-gook (abracadabra, etc.)
“You’re a GOON!” (Goon faces)
“And the moral of the story? Hare today, Goon tomorrow.”
I have one, but it’s not all that old.
“Double-Double This-This
Double-Double That-that
Double This
Double That
Double-Double This-That!”
I remember this one! There were different hand motions for ‘this’ and ‘that’ and I think the idea was it was supposed to confuse you. Which it did. It was annoying! I can do it now, though! lol
They say that in the army, the food is mighty fine
You ask for Coca-Cola, they give you turpentine
Gee ma, I want to go
Back to Ontario
Gee ma, I want to go home
They say that in the army, the girls are mighty fine
You ask for Betty Grable, they give you Frankenstein
I remembered this one recently, it’s abit morbid if you actually think about it.
“It’s raining
It’s pouring
The old man is snoring
He went to bed
And bumped his head
And won’t wake up in the morning.”
Terribly inappropriate, but did anyone ever used to do
“Ching Ching Chinaman sitting on a bench,
Trying to make a dollar out of ninety nine cents-
but he missed, he missed, just like this…”
Can’t even remember if this was for jumprope or hand clap.
i remember learning this one at summer camp, a while back. i actually just now looked it up to make sure i got it right, and i had totally misheard it. for some reason i had always thought it was “penguin submarine.”
have you ever seen a penguin come to tea
take a look at me, a penguin you will see
penguins, ATTENTION!
penguins, BEGIN!
Right fin (wave right arm)
Left fin (wave left arm)
Right foot (stomp with right foot)
Left foot (Stomp with left foot)
Spin around (Spin)
With a repeat of the chorus in between the motions.
I used to do one I learned in Texas, the words were mostly nonsensical, if they ever had meaning I don’t know what they were. It went kinda like…
Bo-bo see otten totten,
Nay nay I am boom, boom, boom.
Itty bitty otten tot!
Bo-bo see otten tot!
Bo-bo see otten tot!
Boom! Freeze! American cheese!
Now you can stop
looking at me!
At which point you’d close your eyes and try to do it all over again but faster. It was done with some complex pattern of claps. Also, when you said “boom!” each time you slapped your butt with one hand. No idea why this one was crazy popular at my school.
I remember this one! It was one of my favorites! But the words I remember were just slightly different:
Bo-bo see rotten totten
Ah Ah, Ah Ah boom, boom, boom
Bo-bo see rotten totten
Ah Ah, Ah Ah boom, boom, boom
Itty-bitty rotten totten
Bo-Bo see rotten totten
Bo-bo see rotten totten
BOOM! *Blow* HISS (with your fingers pointed like guns)
This one really was a little bit more difficult, but definitely one of the best
“My mommy told me if I was goody
That she would buy me a rubber dolly
My Auntie told her I kissed a soldier
Now she won’t buy me no rubber dolly
3 – 5 – 9, the goose drank wine
Then we tied a monkey to the streetcar line
The rope broke, the monkey got choked
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat!”
(I always felt sorry for that monkey…. “g”)
Haven’t seen this exactly yet:
eeny meany pepsadeeny
ooo bop bop sadeeny
education revelation
I love you (tootie-fruity)
down down baby
down by the roller coaster
sweet sweet baby
noplace to go
shamrock shamrock
shammy shammy shamrock
caught you with your boyfriend
naughty naughty
stole a piece of candy
greedy greedy
didn’t do the dishes
lazy lazy
jumped out the window
crazy crazy…
.
and that’s all I can remember of that one, Dallas TX circa 1979…
man, I love reading about all these different songs, remembering hand-clap games on the playground at recess, hot texas asphalt smell in the summertime, cicadas in the trees and chiggers in the grass, go cowboys and hook ‘em horns…
I grew up in Bermuda and we said it kind of like this:
eeny meany japaneenee
ooh are companeenie
etchy kotcy Liberace
I love you a toot toot.
Saw you with your boyfriend last night
What’s his name?
Charlie Brown.
How do you know?
I peeped thru the key hole, nosey
Wash those dishes, lazy
Gimme piece of candy, greedy……
Can’t remember the rest
I remember one from when I was a kid, but I only remember the start:
Under the bramble bush that’s down by the sea
That’s where my true love is waiting for me
And we’ll get married and have a baby or three…
and I can’t remember where it goes after that. Grah. I think the pattern was up/down/partners hands/your hands and I was probably rubbish at it. Heh.
under the bamboo, under the tree
boom-boom-boom
true love for me, my darling, true love for me
when we get married, we’ll raise a family
of 35 children,all in a
row-row-row ya boat, gently down the stream,
chuck the teacher overboard, listen to her scream AHHH!
different versions of some from above, this one had cool actions:
apple on a stick, makes me sick,
makes my heart beat two-forty-six.
not because i’m dirty, not because i’m sick,
just because i kissed the boys behind a magazine.
boys, boys, have a lotta fun, here comes *insert name here* with her big fat bum.
she can wibble, she can wobble she can do the splits, but i bet you that she can’t do this:
close your eyes and count to 10, if you muck it up you’re a big fat hen:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
you didn’t muck it up so you’re my best friend/you stuffed it up so you’re a big fat hen!
also had variations on miss mary mack, c.c. my playmate, and down by the banks of the hanky panky, eeny meeny mineie moe
this one was for choosing in games of tag,etc:
there’s a party on the hill, would you like to come
(yes)
then bring a bottle of rum-tum-tum
(can’t afford it)
then pack your bags and GET LOST!
That’s pretty much it! Thank you so much! We definitely did bramble bush, not bamboo though. I guess that’s what grows round here…. heh. I think the change to a different rhyme threw me.
Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
__________ stole the cookie from the cookie jar!
Who me?
Yes you!
Couldn’t be!
Then who?
_____ stoel the cookie fromt he cookie jar!
and on and on and on…..
I always sang:
“Pat-a-cake,
Pat-a-cake,
Baker’s man.
Bake me a cake,
As fast as you can!
Pat it and prick it,
And mark it with B.
Then put it in the oven,
For Baby and me!”
eenie meanie pepsaleenie
shooo bop bop a-leenie
education liberation
I love you (tootie-fruity)
shimmie shimmie cocoa puff
shimmie shimmie pow
shimmie shimmie cocoa puff
shimmie shimmie pow
down down baby
down by the roller coaster
sweet sweet baby
never gonna let you go
caught you with your boyfriend
naughty naughty
didn’t do your homework
lazy lazy
jumped out the window
crazy crazy…
Miss Suzie had a baby
she named it Tiny Tim
she put it in the bathtub
to see if he could swim
He drank up all the water
he ate up all the soap
he tried to eat the bathtub but
it wouldn’t fit down his throat
Call the Nurse said Miss Suzie
Call the Doctor said the Nurse
Smack him hard! said the Lady
with the alligator purse
Out came the water
Out came the soap
Out came the bathtub
that wouldn’t fit down his throat.
Miss Suzie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell, Miss Suzie went to heaven, the steamboat went to
Hello operator, please give me number nine, and if you disconnect me, I’ll kick your Behind the ‘frigerator, there was a piece of glass, Miss Suzie slipped upon it and it went right up her.. Ask me no more questions, I’ll tell you no more lies, the boys are in the bathroom, zipping up their Flies are in the city, the bees are in the park, Miss Suzie and her boyfriend, are kissing in the D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K, dark! Dark! Dark!
Miss Suzie was a baby a baby a baby when Miss Suzie was a baby she went like this… waaaah wahhh (rubbing eyes)
Miss Suzie was a toddler a toddler a toddler when Miss Suzie was a toddler she went like this… waaaah wahhh (rubbing eyes) … gimme MINE!
Miss Suzie was in third grade in third grade in third grade when Miss Suzie was in third grade she went like this… waaaah wahhh (rubbing eyes) … gimme MINE! I don’t wanna you can’t make me..
Miss Suzie was a teenager, a teenager a teenager When Miss Suzie was a teenager she went like this. waaaah wahhh (rubbing eyes) … gimme MINE! I don’t wanna you can’t make me.. Ooh, ah, lost my bra, musta left it in my boyfriend’s car!
Miss Suzie was a mamma a mamma a mamma When Miss Suzie was a mamma she went like this. waaaah wahhh (rubbing eyes) … gimme MINE! I don’t wanna you can’t make me.. Ooh, ah, lost my bra, musta left it in my boyfriend’s car!, Make a martini, mix it quick, I’ve got a headache, what a trip.
Miss Suzie was a gramma a gramma a gramma, When Miss Suzie was a gramma she went like this. waaaah wahhh (rubbing eyes) … gimme MINE! I don’t wanna you can’t make me.. Ooh, ah, lost my bra, musta left it in my boyfriend’s car!, Make a martini (or other adult drink), mix it quick, I’ve got a headache, what a trip. Ohhh, my aching back…
(It kept going, she died, we did the whole worms bit and usually people
started getting off the bus)
The worms go in the worms go out- the worms play pinochle on your snout something like that…. Doing pretty good for 2nd grade in 87
omg what a trip, I had forgoten most of these till I say them here but they are coming right back(and more !). I was trying to rememebr the end to Mary and her baby the other day, thanks! lol Mine were all learned in the early 90s
I also remember more or the counting games like:
“five green and speckled frogs, sitting on a speckled log”, and “the ants go marching one by one hurrah…” and “this old man, he played one, he played nickknack on his thumb, with a nickknack paddywack, give a dog a bone! this old man went rolling home”.lol
“Jingle bells,
Batman smells,
Robin laid an egg,
Penguin stole the bat mobile
and the Joker got away-hay!
I also picked up one about killing Barney from the boys but I dont remember the words too well…heh…
And of course theres the K-I-S-S-I-N-G song.
“mailman mailman, do your duty, here comes miss american beauty, she can do the pompoms, she can do the split, but I bet your bottom dollar that she cant do this!”
“ladybug ladybug, fly away home, your house is on fire and your children are home”
“inky pinky ponky, daddy bought a donkey, donkey died, daddy cried, inky pinky ponky”(I think we used as a quicker alternate of catch a tiger by the toe or the potatoe one or bubblegum sometimes)
hehe “tick or trest, smell my feet, give me something good to eat. If you dont, I dont care, I’ll pull down your underwear!”
I remember something about a Barney clap/rhyme thing, but not him killing anyone. Instead it was the other way around:
Tic-Tac-Toe
Three in a row
Barney got shot by a G.I. Joe
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said
“Whoop, Barney’s de-ad!
Got shot in the he-ad!”
Hope this was helpful!
Three little monkeys jumpin’ on the bed,
One fell of and bumped his head,
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said,
“No more monkeys jumpin’ on the bed!”
Then we’d repeat until all the monkeys were gone and say,
“No monkeys, the monkeys are dead!”
All of these really are shocking, lol…
I know it’s not that old, but anyone do concentration 64?
Concentration
64
No repeats
Or Hesitations
I’ll Start
You’ll follow
Catogory is
(whatever u wanted)
I learned it like this:
Concentration
64
No repeats
Or hesitations
Nonstop
I’ll start
By naming names
of [category]
And myself, I learned it this way:
Concentration (clap, clap, clap)
Sixty-four (clap, clap, clap)
No repeats (clap, clap, clap)
Or hesitations (clap, clap, clap)
Who will start? (clap, clap, clap)
[name here] will (clap, clap, clap)
Category: (clap, clap, clap)
[category here] (clap, clap, clap)
I remembered another one just before I went to fall asleep last night. I’ve been following the thread, and I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet. If it has, I apologize for the repetition.
Eener meener and a, miner mo,
catch a whipper whopper, by its toe,
and if it, holler, holler, hollers,
don’t let it go, I’m singin’
eener meener and a, miner mo.
I woke up Sunday morning,
I looked upon the wall,
the beetles and the bedbugs
were playin’ a game of ball.
The score was one to nothing,
the bedbugs were ahead,
the beetles hit a homerun
that knocked me out of bed!
I’m singin’,
eener, meener, and a, miner mo,
catch a whipper whopper, by its toe,
and if it holler, holler, hollers,
don’t let it go, I’m singin’
eener, meener, and a, miner mo!
(Extra commas indicate pauses while singing.)
From Bermuda we played a game with one of those super balls that could bounce really high and it was called Composition. It went like this:
You would go thru the alphabet and every time you woudl say a word or the letter you would bounce the ball under your leg.
Composition let A may I repeat the letter A because I like the letter A, Apple begins with the letter A.
Composition letter B may I repeat the letter B Because I like the letter B, Barbara Begins with the letter B.
B was fun because you had to bounce the ball back and forth under your leg every time you said all those letters and words beginning with the letter B.
Good God!! I had no idea Miss Suzy Had a Steamboat had so many verses!! When I was a kid, we always got stuck at “flies.”
Anyone remember the good ol’ Kookaburra?
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush was he-ee
Laugh, kookaburra, laugh, kookaburra
Gay your life must be!
Great for rounds!
I’ve got a couple that I haven’t seen here:
I think this was a spinning song, no idea how old it is. My mom taught it to me:
sera-sponda, sera-sponda, sera-sponda, ret-set-set
sera-sponda, sera-sponda, sera-sponda, ret-set-set
a-DOORay-oh, a-DOORay-boomday-oh
a-DOORay-boomday-ret-set-set
asay-pasy-oh
And somehow we’ve managed to skip all the K-I-S-S-I-N-G variants:
Johnny and Susie sitting inna tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
first comes love,
then comes marriage,
then comes baby in the baby carriage
sucks his thumb
pees his pants
tries to do the hula dance
Also… does anyone remember a verst to the: ‘drank up all the water, ate up all the soap, tried to eat the bathtub but it wouldn’t fit down his throat” rhyme, where there was something like “my parents are commie spies, and I’m the little bastard that told the FBI”?
(grins) I grew up next to an Air Force Base in the middle of the cold war 80′s… so I’m not sure whether that was just local to us. (when everyone else was playing the ‘dumb blond game’ we called it the ‘dumb russian’ game)
I remember one that went something like this:
A, B, C
It’s easy as a
1, 2, 3
My momma takes care of me
My daddy has funky feet
Ohh, Ahh, I wanna piece a pie
Pie too sweet I wanna piece a meat
Meat too tough I wanna ride a bus
Bus too full I wanna ride a bull
Bull too black I want my money back
Money back too green I wanna jelly bean
Jelly bean not cooked I wanna read a book
Book not read I wanna got to bed
Bed not made I want some lemonade
Lemonade too sour I wanna take a shower
Shower too cold I wanna piece a gold
Gold too shiny I wanna kiss your hiney
Hiney too dirty I wanna count to thirty
Thirty too high I wanna say good-bye
Good-bye!
I also remember there was one with something about pepsi turning to gasoline? I’m not sure. Anyone wanna help me out with that one?
Along with all the ones that have been mentioned that I remembering playing, I also played a hand-game version of ‘Rockin’ Robin’. We used to do that at school EVERY day as if it was going out if style, lawlz.
“Say, say, my playmate,
come out and play with me.
And we’ll be jolly, see?
Climb up my apple tree
Slide down my rainspout
Into the cellar door
And we’ll be jolly friends
Forever more
1, 2, 3, 4
APPLECORE!”
Sung to the tune of “My Bonnie”
My mommy laid over the ocean
My mommy laid over the sea
My daddy laid over my mommy
And that’s how I came to be me.
There was a song too that I can’t really remember-
Senor Del Gato was a cat.
He was nicely groomed and kind of fat
There was not a better kitty
meow meow meow
In the country or the city
meow meow meow meow
It goes on, I think the cat dies and his spirit comes back or something.
We had no cable tv : )
I remember a song that we used to sing in primary school that went:
Eenie meanie decimeanie,
you are the one for me
the education liberation
I hate you,
downtown baby
down by the rollercoaster
sweet sweet cherry
no place to go
caught you with your boyfriend,
naughty naughty,
ate a box of chocolates,
greedy greedy,
didn’t do the washing,
lazy lazy,
jumped out the window,
flippin’ crazy!
eenie meanie decimeanie,
you are the one for me,
the education liberation
I love you.
Can you see susie walking down the street
look at how she moves her feet
she can do the can can
she can do the splits.
she can do anything just like this
1,2,3,4(walk your feet out a step for each)
repeat until youre doing the splits or fall over!
I learned a different march in Girl Scouts in the late 80s – my hubby gives me a weird look every time I sing it.
Left
Left
Left
Right
Left
I
Left
My Wife
With 24 Kids
on the verge
of salvation
without any
gingerbread.
Did I do
Right?
Right
Right
Left
Right
My Country
‘Tis of Thee
And a
Whooptie Do
And a Tiddily Dee
And a Left
Left
Left
Right
Left
For the Whooptie Do, you sort of did a spin mid air with your feet and of course, the rights and the left corresponded with the foot going down.
Yikes–major slip– STARVATION, not SALVATION!!!
they say that in the army the meals are mighty fine a pea rolled off the table and killed a friend of mine on i don’t want anymore of army life. gee mom i want to go back to ontario gee mom i want to go h-o-m-e h-o-m-e h-o-m-e home home home back you u and dad
OMG I loved that one! We’d sing it at camp all the time, although we replaced the Army with the name of our camp. My fave line was: They say that at Camp [], the nurse is mighty fine/But when I broke a finger, she broke the other nine/Oh, I don’t wanna go to Camp []/Gee mom, I wanna go, but they won’t let me go/Gee mom, I wanna go hoooooooome!
Another one I remember is:
Little Sally Walker, walking down the street
She didn’t know what to do, so she stopped in front of me
and that’s all I can remember of that one. lol
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Miss Ruby dance (how’s she dance?)
Miss Ruby dance (how’s she dance?)
Miss Ruby dance (how’s she dance?)
Miss Ruby dance like this.
And then the person saying it does something and everyone else has to repeat it.
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In this one, you sit in a circle, each holding a small object (like a pen, a doll, etc.) and one person in the group (it’s the same person the whole game) calls out what the object is they’re holding… well, you’ll see. I’ll use a pen as an example.
This is a pen (a what?)
A pen (a what?)
A pen (ohhhhhh!)
And then everyone passes their object onto the next person (going clockwise), and it starts over with a new object.
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there’s also two others I can’t for the life of me remember how they go. One starts with “S O S O S O S…” and the other has a line that goes “T I, T I, mush, mush, mush” or something like that. The second one works kinda like the hanky-panky one. Can y’all help me on these?
i remember the apples on a stick song like this…
apples on a stick, make me sick
makes my heart go 246,
not because I’m clean,
not because i’m dirty,
just because I kissed a boy behind a magazine
hey girls, wanna have some fun?
here comes (cute boys name) with his pants undone
he can wiggle, he can woggle, he can do the splits,
but best of all he can kiss kiss kiss!
Down by the banks
of the Hanky Panky
Where the bullfrogs jump
from bank to bank
you gotta
eeeees
iccccce
osssss
oooos
you suck a dilly
and a ding dong too
we had way too many..
anyway im not going to try to explain most of the moves-most of them are fairly self-explanatory
A,B,C
We’re going up
We’re going down
We’re going Criss cross Lollipop
Turn around
Touch the ground
Bunny hop
Karate chop
-Pull the chain start again (1st time round)
-Fuuuuuul stop (2nd time round)
And also
I went to a chinese restaurant to buy a loaf of bread bread bread
The lady at the counter (pause) was standing on her head head head
She asked me what my name was and this is what I said said said
My name is
L-I, L-I
Chickidie, Chickidie
eewie, gooey (mime stretching goo)
buck buck buck (chicken wings)
Chinese checkers
Cheese on toast
Put it in the oven with a poke poke poke (try to poke the other person)
I dunno if anyone else knows these two clapping games. They are a bit different then just normal clapping games. First one is Seven Eleven
Starts off with normal clapping
“I went to seven eleven to buy a load of bread bread bread” (clap hands together on bread)
“I wrapped it up in tin foil and this is what I said said said”
(Then you hold your hands together like a wedge and brush hands back and forth)
“My name is…”
(One hand presses against the plam of your friend’s hand other hand claps their up above) “E-eye E-eye chicken eye chicken eye” (clap hands below) polly wally whiskers.
repeat from “my name is…”
My name is…cheese (cross your arms over your chest)
The second one was mean, but I loved it. Just normal clapping game
“Hey hey little playmate come out and play with me, and bring your dollies three. Climb up my apple tree I have a rain pail, slide down my cellar door and we’ll be jolly friends forever more-more-more-more.”
“Hey hey little playmate I cannot play with you, my dollies have the flu boo-who-who-who-who. I don’t have a rain pail, i don’t have a cellar door, but we’ll still be jolly friends forever more-more-more-more”
“Hey hey little playmate i played a dirty trick, my dollies are not sick ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. I have a rain pail, i have a cellar door but I don’t want to be your friend no more-more-more-more.”
There was one that was like that, which I saw on TV (Sesame Street, maybe?) but after you clap your hand to your partner’s (above and then below), you keep the bottom two hands together (yours and hers/his) and then snap your fingers… there were a couple other moves and you end it with clapping your hands together again to start the cycle over.
Here’s a quick video of what I’m talking about:
To this one we use to say: Shame shame shame I don’t wanna go to Mexico no mo mo mo there’s a big fat policemen at the door door door if you pull em by the collar boy you betta holla I don’t wanna go to Mexico no mo mo mo
Cinderella
Dressed in yella
When upstairs to kiss a fella
Made a mistake kissed a snake
How many doctors did it take?
Double Dutch jump rope song, numbers repeat, until you stumble.
Boys are cheats and liars,
they’re such a big disgrace.
They will tell you anything to get to second base-
-ball, baseball
he thinks he’s gonna score.
If you let him go all the way
that makes you a hor-
-ticulturists study flowers
geologists study rocks
the only thing a guy wants from you
is a place to put his cock-
-roaches, beetles,
butterflies and bugs
nothing makes him happier,
than a giant pair of jugg-
-lers and acrobats,
and dancing bears named chuck,
all boys ever want to do is…
FORGET IT, no such luck!
That’s a riot! Thanks for sharing!
stella ella olla
clap clap clap
singin’ es teega teega
teega teega snap snap
es teega teega
valooo valooo valovalovalo
sing 12345
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friiiied ham
friiiiied ham
cheese and baloney
and after the macaroni
we’ll have some onions and pickles and peppers
and more friiiied ham fried ham fried ham
second verse, same as first _______ style, little bit worse
( insert stereotypical accent type, ie: english style, western style, chinese style)
—–
kimo kymo derrawah
mi-hi mi-ho
mi rum side pummadiddy
soup back perriwinkle nit come nit cap
sing song city
wontcha ki-me-o
—–
miss mary had a steamboat
the steamboat had a bell (ding a ling)
miss mary went to heaven
the steamboat went to
hello opperator
please give me number nine
and if you disconnect me
i’ll kick you in
behind the yellow curtain
there was a piece of glass
miss mary sat upon it
and hurt her little
ask me no more questions
i’ll tell you no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom
pulling down their
flies are in the kitchen
the bees are in the park
miss mary and the principal are kissing in the
d-a-r-k
dark is like a movie
a movie’s like a show
a show is like the television
that is all i know know know
i know i know my ma
i know i know my pa
i know i know my sister with the 80 metre bra bra bra
i saw her at the movies
i saw her at the show
i saw her in the shower and well you don’t want to know know know
—–
Cici my playmate
come out and play with me
bring out your dollies three
climb up my apple tree
slide down my rainbow
into my cellar door
and we’ll be best of friends
forever more
Sissy my playmate
i can not play with you
my dollies have the flu
they may throw up on you
can’t see the rainbow
i closed the cellar door
but we’ll be best of frieds
forever moooooore
and the more adult version:
Cici my playmate
come out and neck with me
undo your buttons three
pull down your sweater sleeve
slide down your bra strap
into your pair of drawers
and we’ll be best of friends
’till i get mooooore
—–
down by the banks of the hanky panky
where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank
i say fe fi fiddly-i-de-o
jump from the lilly pad
ker-plunk
—–
father abraham
had 7 sons sir
7 sons sir
had father abraham
and they didn’t walk
and they didn’t talk
all they did was go like this.. ( insert action here )
witha left
anda right
anda left
anda right
repeat and add actions with each verse
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your best bet is to do this one siting on the floor
my ship sailed from china with a cargo of tea
all laden with gifts
for you and for me
they brought me a fan
just imagine my bliss
as i fan myself gayly
like this like this like this like this ( fan with one hand while repeating verse, upon completion of second verse, add other hand too, continue until both hands, feet, head and torso are waving …or someone pukes, whichever comes first )
Mailman, Mailman, Do your duty,
here comes the lady with the African booty
she can do the pom-poms,
she can to the splits,
but most of all, she can kiss kiss kiss
K-I-S-S, that spells KISS!
at the K-I-S-S part, the girls would spread our feet farther and farther apart until we either did the splits or fell over. XD
here’s a few i remember singing as a kid
Five little angels all dressed in white trying to get to heaven
on the end of a kite the kite string broke and down down they fell
instead of going to heaven they all went to
( repeat untill you get to 1) and the last line i think is that they go to bed
can also be sung as five little devils all dressed in red
I’m a little junior miss
i can hug and i can kiss
i’ve got ruffles on my
whoops boys take another guess
I’ve got ruffles on my dress!
I’m a little coco brown
lying on the cold cold ground
everybody steps on me that is why i’m cracked you see
i’m a nut i’m a nut (making sound similar to chipmunk or squirrel)
then say loudly I’m a nut!
Thanks for reminding me about the little angels!
The ending I know goes like this:
One little angel all dressed in white
tried to get to heaven at the end of a kite
but the kite string broke and down they all fell
instead of going to heaven they all went to
Don’t get excited
Don’t lose your head
Instead of going to heaven
They all went to bed
Why have I not seen this?
I said a boom chicka boom
I said a boom chicka boom
I said a broom sweepa broom
I said a broom sweepa broom
I don’t remember any more D:
Haha, I learned that at a class trip to a camp, but we said:
I said a boom chicka boom
I said a boom chicka boom
I said a booma chicka rocka
chicka rocka
chicka boom
then we would go faster or say it in some silly way
OMG i do that… did u go to Rock MTn in PA????? I did!
I believe the real miss suzie goes like this….
Miss suzie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell,
miss suzie went to heaven and the steamboat went to
hello operator give me number 9, and if u disconect me,
i’ll chop off your behind the refridgerator the was a peice of glass
miss suzie sat upon it and cut her little ask me no more questions
tell me no more lies, the boys are in the girls room pulling down their flies
are in the meadow, bees are in the park, boys and girls are kissing in the
D-A-R-K dark is like a movie and a movies like a show, da da da da da dada
and that is all i know, i know i know my ma, i know i know my pa, i know i know i know my sister with the 40 acre bra! my mother is godzilla, my father is king kong, my sister is the idiot who made me sing this song!
I had
Theres a party round the corner will you please please come
bring your own frappachino and your own chewing gum.
what is your boyfriends name?
___________will be there
blowing kisses in the air
saying, i love _______, na na na
i love _______, na na na
o-u-t spells you are OUT!
Say-Say, my playmate.
lmao)
I cannot play with you.
My dog has got the flu.
And german measles too.
Swing round the rainbow.
I fell and cut my knee.
And that’s the end of me.
BLEH. (in the dramatic way that kids do
Coca-Cola came to town.
Diet Pepsi shot him down.
Dr Pepper picked him up.
Now we’re drinking 7-Up.
Romeo and Juliet.
On a balcony they met.
Romeo said to Juliet:
You’re the sexiest girl I ever met.
Put your cigarettes in,
Yes sir, no sir,
Let me hear you cough sir
-the person you point to has to cough-
Very bad indeed sir,
You are not it!
These were all the ones we used when I was a kid growing up in England. There was LOADS more but I can’t remember them all now, lmao.
Mrs susie had a steamboat the steamboat had a bell “toot toot”
Mrs susie went to heaven the steamboat went to
hello operator give me number nine and if you disconnect me
Ill chop off your
behind the refrigerator there was a piece of glass Mrs susie sat upon in and broke her little
ask me no more questions tell me no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom zipping up their
flies are in the meadow the bees are in their hives
mrs susie and her boyfriends are kissing in the
d-a-r-k d-a-r-k dark dark dark
darker then the ocean darker then the sea
darker then the underwear my momma put on me!
That’s the one we always used to do in school.
Our Ms. Suzie was a little different. xP
I remember these two
One was a circle of people
Stella-stella-ola
clap-clap-clap
sing s-chigo-chigo-chigo-chack
sing s-chigo-chigo valo, valo
Fire
1
2
3
4
5
At five the person either lifted their hand out of they or got it.
you were out of
1) you lifted your and away too soon
2) you got hit
3) you didn’t hit the person on five because they got out of the way
Antother one was May sue, it was a two person game. It was VERY complex and hard to learn.
(hands are clapped up to down mainly)
May-sue(clap, clap), May-sue(clap clap), may sue from alabama,
Hey you (point to the other person), scooby doo (do a crazy sign by your head, both sides)
sitting at the table, peeling mashed potatos
watching the clock go
tick-tock, tick-tock-sha-walla-wa
(make a mentarnone like signal to the beat of the words)
A-B-C-D-E-F-G
(right side crazy sign for A, B and C)(Left side crazy sign for E, F and G)
Wash those boy germs off of me
(brush your arms)
Moon-shine, Moonshine, Moonshine
(Act like your are polising something)
FREEZE
(make a “gun” singal to the other person)
(the people now grip right hands and clap their other hands above and below the gripped hands)
Down down baby
Down by the rollercoaster (make a rollercoaster signal with your hands)
Hey sweet baby never gonna let ‘cha go (hug yourself)
Just be cause a kissed you (air kiss)
doesn’t mean I love you (cross your arms over chest)
Just because I kicked you (kick)
doesn’t mean I hate you
Shimmy, shimmy
coco-pop
shimmy shimmy
pow pow (gun hand signal)
shimmy shimmy
coco-pop
Shimmy shimmy
lolipop (push your cheeks up with your index fingers)
Yes, it is complicated, but it was fun and hard to learn.
Ms. Suzie had a steamboat!
The steamboat had a bell – ding ding!
Ms. Suzie went to heaven,
The steamboat went to
HELL-o operator,
Please give me number 9,
And if you disconnect me
I will chop off your
BEHIND the ‘fridgerator,
There was a piece of glass,
Ms. Suzie sat upon it,
And broke her little
ASk me no more questions,
Please give me no more lies,
The boys are in the girl’s room
Zipping down their
FLIES are in the meadow, the bees are in their hives,
Ms. Suzie and her boyfriend
Are kissing in the
D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K,
DARK, DARK, DARK is like the movies,
A movie’s like a show,
A show is like a tv set,
And that is all I
KNOW I know my ma’,
I know I know my pa’,
I know I know my sister
With her 40 acre-
40 acre-
40 acre-
BRA BRA BRA.
OH. And!
Ms Mary MAC-MAC-MAC
All dressed in BLACK-BLACK-BLACK
With silver BUTTONS – BUTTONS – BUTTONS
All down her BACK – BACK – BACK
She asked her MOTHER – MOTHER – MOTHER
For 15 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 he never came BACK – BACK – BACK
Till the 4th of Ju-LY – LY – LY!
I remember: Patty Cake (not sure which version), Cinderella dressed in yella, Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky, Kissed a boy behind a magazine, and It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring.
One that hasn’t been said:
Chinese ladies are so funny
This is how they count their money
(hold hand like you are praying and bow) Mucha Mucha (bow), turn around a boot ya. (turn around a bump butts)
Another one:
Fishy, fishy in the brook
Daddy catch it with a hook,
Mommy fry it in the pan,
Baby eat it like a man
I remember these two:
I went to a Chinese bakery to buy a loaf of bread, bread, bread.
She put it in a doggy bag and this is what she said, said, said.
My name is
L-I-L-I nicky nacky nicky nacky pom pom poodle willy wolly whiskers.
My name is chief. Roast beef.
Mommy wow, I’m a big kid now.
Woo wee!
and:
My boyfriend gave me an apple.
My boyfriend gave me a pear.
My boyfriend gave me 50 cents and took me to the fair.
When we got to the fair, it was over, so I told him to take me home.
I gave him back his apple.
I gave him back his pear.
I gave him back his 50 cents and took his underwear!
I remember
“Say O Playmate,
Come out and play with me
And we’ll be jolly friends
Climb up my apple tree
Slide down my rainbow
Into my cellar door
And we’ll be jolly friends
Forever more! More more more!
I also remember
“The sailor went to see see see
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!”
And
Down by the bay where the hanky banks and the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank eeps ipes ohpes opes he and the lily pad went kerplop
These are great
I remember a lot of these! Another one I really liked from camp went like this: (there was a leader, and everyone else followed, and the last line of each part was sung together. The “sooo” was held out while the second group sang the first part)
The cutest boy (the cutest boy)
I ever saw (I ever saw)
Was sipping sooo (was sipping sooo) –da from a straw (-da from a straw)
The cutest boy I ever sa-a-a-a-aw, was sipping soda from a straw.
I asked him if (I asked him if)
He’d show me how (he’d show me how)
To sip my sooo (to sip my sooo) –da from a straw (-da from a straw)
I asked him if he’d show me ho-o-o-o-ow to sip my soda from a straw.
So cheek to cheek (so cheek to cheek)
And jaw to jaw! (and jaw to jaw!)
We sipped our sooo (we sipped our sooo) –da from a straw (-da from a straw)
So cheek to cheek and jaw to ja-a-a-a-aw, we sipped our soda from a straw.
Then suddenly (then suddenly)
That straw did slip! (that straw did slip!)
And I sipped sooo (and I sipped sooo) –da from his lips (-da from his lips)
Then suddenly that straw did sli-i-i-i-ip, and I sipped soda from his lips.
That’s how I got (that’s how I got)
My mother-in-law (my mother-in-law)
And sixteen kiiiids (and sixteen kiiiiids) to call me ma (to call me ma)
That’s how I got my mother in la-a-a-a-aw, and sixteen kids to call me ma.
There’s also another clapping game that I remember. I actually came across this site because I was trying to find it! I found some variations of it here, but we sang it like this:
Obo shen ot en tot en
Nay nay, I am boom boom boom
Itty itty otten totten
Obo shen ot en tot en
Obo shen ot en tot en
BOOM!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!
This was playing in a circle, with your right hand on top of the next person’s left hand. Then you would bring your hand over and slap the next person’s hand (going clockwise), and on ten, the last person who got slapped was out! (you were supposed to try to miss it
)
This was in Minnesota
I learned this one a bit differently … (But I love it all the same)
The cutest boy (the cutest boy)
I ever saw (I ever saw)
Was sipping so- (was sipping so-) –da from a straw (-da from a straw)
The cutest boy I ever sa-a-a-a-aw, was sipping soda from a- soda from a straw.
I asked him if (I asked him if)
He’d show me how (he’d show me how)
To sip that so- (to sip my so-) –da from a straw (-da from a straw)
I asked him if he’d show me ho-o-o-o-ow to sip that soda from a- soda from a straw.
First cheek to cheek (first cheek to cheek)
Then jaw to jaw! (then jaw to jaw!)
We sipped that so- (we sipped that so-) –da from a straw (-da from a straw)
First cheek to cheek, then jaw to ja-a-a-a-aw, we sipped that soda from a- soda from a straw.
Then suddenly (then suddenly)
That straw did slip! (that straw did slip!)
And we were sip- (and we were sip-) –ping lip to lip (-ping lip to lip)
Then suddenly that straw did sli-i-i-i-ip, and we were sipping lip to- sipping lip to lip.
That’s how I got (that’s how I got)
My mother-in-law (my mother-in-law)
And forty-two [or some other obscene number] kids (and forty-two kids) to call me ma (to call me ma)
That’s how I got my mother in la-a-a-a-aw, and forty-two kids to call me- kids to call me ma.
That is the end (that is the end)
There is no more (There is no more)
And PDA (and PDA) Is not okay! (Is not okay!)
That is the end, there is no mo-o-o-o-ore and PDA is not o- A is not okay!
Patty cake, patty cake, baker’s man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
Roll it, pat it, mark it with a P
Put it in the oven for baby and me
joy to the world
the teacher’s dead
we barbequed her head
what happened to her body?
we flushed it down the potty
and round and round it goes
and round and round it goes…
God I’m having flashbacks reading these, lol. What about the meatball song:
On top of spaghetti
All covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball
When somebody sneezed
It rolled off the table
And onto the floor
And then my poor meatball
Rolled right out the door
It rolled down the steps
And under a bush
And now my poor meatball
Is nothing but mush
does anyone remember the one that goes…
double, double this this
double, double that that
double, this, double that
double, double this that!
haha i still remember than hand motions as well!
APPLE STIX make me sick
make my tummy go 246
not because i’m dirty
not because i’m clean
just because I kissed a girl/boy behind the magazine
so hey girls/boys you wanna fight
well here comes *name* with their pants up tight
they can wiggle they can waddle
they can do the splits
but most of all they can kiss kiss kiss.
This was huge way back when I was growing up.
miss suzie had a steamboat
the steamboat had a bell (ding ding)
miss suzie went to heaven
the steamboat went to
HELL-o operator
please give me number 9
and if you disconnect me
i’ll kick you from
behind the ‘fridgerator
there was a peice of glass
miss suzie sat upon it
and broke her little
ask me no more questions
i’ll tell you no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom
zipping up their
flies are in the meadow
bees are in the park
miss suzies with her boyfriend
kissing in the D-A-R-K D-A-R-K dark dark dark
the dark is like a movie
a movies like a show
a show is like a t.v. show
and that is all i know
i know i know my pa
i know i know my ma
i know i know my sister
with the 40 acre bra
my mom is godzilla
my dad is king kong
my brother is the stupid one
who made this stupid song
my mom gave me a nickle
my dad gave me a dime
my sister gave me her boyfriend
whose name is Frankinstein
he made me do the dishes
he made me mop the floors
he made me do his underware
so i kicked him out the door
i kicked him over London
i kicked him over France
i kicked him to Hawaii
where he did the hula dance
joy to the world
the school burned down
and all the kids were freeeeeee
but where is the principal
he’s hanging from the flagpole
with a rope around his neck
with a rope around his neck
with a roooooooooope around his neck
on top of mount smokey
all covered in blood
i shot down poor Barney
with a 44 slug
i went to his funeral
i went to his grave
people threw flowers
while i threw gernades
the very next morning
he woke from the dead
so i got a bazooka
and blew off his head
he tripped over a chimney
he fell in a ditch
his very last words were
you son of a b****
all of my posts were learned at my after school daycare in grade 4
Miss Suzie~
Miss Suzie had a tugboat,
the tugboat had a bell,(ding,ding,ding)
Miss Suzie went to heaven,
the tugboat went to,
HELL-o operator,
give me number 9,
if you disconnect me,
i`ll chop off your
behind the fridgerator,
there sat a piece of glass,
Miss Suzie sat upon it,
and broke her little,
ASS-k me no more questions,
tell me no more lies,
boys are in the bathroom,
zipping up their,
flies are in the meadow,
bees are in the park,
Miss Suzie and her boyfriend,
are kissing in the
D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K, DARK DARK DARK,
darker than black boy,
chasing after me me me,
my mom gave my a nickle,
my dad gave me a dime,
my sister gave me a boyfriend that kisses me all the time.
Now there`s this one…….
A Boy gave me a nickle,
a boy gave me a dime,
a boy gave me a quarter,
to kiss him on the stairs.
I gave him back his nickle,I gave him back his dime,
I gave him back his quarter, then pushed him down the stairs!
I had a little turtle his name was tiny tim I put him in the bathtub to see if he could swim. He drank up all the water and ate up all the soap and when he woke in the morning there was a bubble in his throat
enie meanie miney moe catch a tiger by his toe if he hollers let him go enie meanie miney moe
i remeber this one……. down by the river silver rocks michael jacson dont wear no socks mepiiiipiipii opipipi … 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 then you hit the person you playing with
I remember “patty cake, patty cake, bakers man, bake me a cake as fast as you can, pat it, roll it, mark it with a B, then throw in the oven for baby and me!”
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake
Baker man
Bake a cake, master, as fast as you can.
Prick it and pat it and mark it with T
And there will be plenty for baby and me.
Ancient British version, anyway :p
don’t think i ever played this one.
Oh! Wow its actually a humorous and jockey YouTube video posted at this juncture. thanks for sharing it.