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Remember when we used to pick who would be "it" or who would go first...by tapping each other's fists turned sideways while chanting, "okka bokka soda crocka', okka bokka boo, in comes uncle sam and out goes y o u! Well that one was hard to type out...
___(your name___ and __(his name)___ sitting in a tree,
K- I- S- S- I- N- G,
How many times did he kiss her?
(Then you jump rope really fast while everybody counts...)
The other variation:
_____ and _____ sitting in a tree.
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
First comes love, then comes marriage,
Then comes _________ with a baby carriage.
or
10 little monkeys, jumping on the bed.
One fell off and broke his head.
Call for the doctor and the doctor said
"NO MORE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE BED"
9 little monkeys......
8 little monkeys.....
or
there was something that had the words:
"Call for the doctor,
Call for the nurse,
Call for the lady with
the alligator purse."
I finally figured out who "the lady with the alligator purse" was. She was the public health official who would come to the house and put a "quarantine" sign on the front door when there was a communicable disease present (measles, chicken pox, scarlet fever, etc.) I guess the doctor would call her after he had made a house call (you guys are probably too young to remember "house calls".)
[quote=TMKSarah;47185241]Since we are remembering our time out on the street when we were so young and without knowledge of the world as it seemed...why then did we sing song such as
Lizy Borden took as axe and gave her father forty wacks and when that was done she gave her mother forty one.
The worms crawl in the worms crawl out the worms play pienocollo on your snout.
Remember those!
Did you ev-er see a hearse go by
And think that some-day you might die?
That wrap you in a blood-y sheet
And dig you down about six feet deep.
The worms crawl in, The worms crawl out
The ants play pinochle on your scalp.
Did you ev-er see a hearse go by
And think that some-day YOUUUUUUU Might die!!!!
Wow, first I will say that these ditties really take me back. Was born in 1950 and had a sister close in age so growing up we played hopscotch, jump rope, bouncing a ball and hand clap games. I do remember a lot that have already been mentioned but some others are:
Lincoln, Lincoln, I've been thinking. What the heck have you been drinking? Is it beer or is it wine, oh my gosh it's turpentine! Think this was a jump rope song.
George Washington never told a lie but he ran around the cor.....ner (actually stopped jumping and ran around one girl and back in) and stole a cherry pie. How many cherry pies did he steal? Then extra fast jump rope turning while counting.
Fudge, fudge, tell the judge, mama's got a baby. It isn't a girl, it isn't a boy. Just a mixed up baby. Wrap it up in tissue paper and send it down the elevator. How many .............? Can't remember the rest but more fast jumping.
Hand clap - Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar? Number 1 who me? Yeah you. Couldn't be, then who? Number 2 who me? Yeah you, couldn't be....etc. Then you would have to count and clap really fast.
mutilated monkey meat
french fried birds feet
mmmm wish I had a spoon.
A pretty yukky song, which is probably why we sang it so much.
Same song..different words. I was teaching this to my grandson.. He didn't appreciate it..
Yankee Doodle went to town a-ridin’ on a gopher
Bumped into a garbage can and this is what fell over:
Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat, chopped up baby parakeet.
French-fried eyeballs rolling down the street.
Oops, I forgot my spoon!
So they gave me a split-splat, pus-on-top,
Monkey vomit and camel snot,
All wrapped up in birdie poo,
So eat it, (name), it’s good for you!
With vitamin C, and protein too
And don’t forget the doggie doo!
Yesterday, completely out of the blue I found myself singing..
'I'm looking over my dead dog Rover that I overlooked before. His one leg is broken, the other is maimed. I ran him over with my Cocoa puff train. There's no use denying, my dog is dying right here on the kitchen floor. Oh, I'm looking over my dead dog Rover... that I overlooked before....
I have no idea what made that song pop into this 60 year old's head yesterday. I love dogs. Lol
A-tisket a-tasket
A green and yellow basket
I wrote a letter to my love
And on the way I dropped it,
I dropped it, I dropped it,
And on the way I dropped it.
A little boy he picked it up
And put it in his pocket.
It's a circle game played with kids around 5-6 still today !
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