Such a fun trip down memory lane!

I wear my pink pajamas in the summer, when it's hot.

i wear my flannel nightie in the winter when it's not!

And sometimes in the springtime, and sometimes in the fall,

I slip between the covers with nothing on at all!

~~~

Oh, I wish I were a little bitty mosquito!

Oh, I wish I were a little bitty mosquito!

So I could stingy and bitey under everybody's nightie!

Oh, I wish I were a little bitty mosquito!

Just getting fired-up here... I'm sure I'll be back!

Mom's name was Marguerite so she said the kids would always sing out:

Marguerite, go wash your feet

The Board of Health is across the street!

Then there was

Patty patty two by four

Can't get through the bathroom door

So she did it on the floor...

Bean, beans they're good for your heart

The more you eat 'em the more you fart

The more you fart the better you feel

So eat beans at every meal

Do you know what's in my pottet?

Such a lot of treasures in it.

Listen now while I bedin it.

Such a lot of sings it holds.

And everything dat's in my pottet

And when and where and how I dot it!

First of all, here's in my pottet

A beauty shell, I pit'd it up.

And here's the handle of a tup

That somebody has broked at tea.

The shell's a hole in it you see.

Nobody knows dat I've dot it.

I teep it safe here in my pottet.

And here's my pennies one, two, free

That Aunt Mary dave to me.

Tomorrow I will buy a spade

When I'm out walking with the maid.

I tan't put date here in my pottet,

But I can use it when I've dot it.

Here's some more sings in my pottet.

Here's my bead and here's my string.

And once I had an iron ring.

But through a hole it lost one day

And this is what I always say:

A hole's the worst sing in a pottet.

Be sure and mend it when you've dot it!

Lots of jumping rope chants:

Down the Mississippi, the mighty Mississippi where the steam boats go PUSH (with "push" you pushed the girl in front of you out of the rope)

Cinderella dressed in yella, went downtown to meet her fella

On the way her girdle busted, how many people were disgusted? (a counting song)

Mini Minnehaha, went to see her papa

Papa died, Mini cried

Mini had a baby, named him Tiny Tim

Put him in the bathtub to see if he could swim

First he drank the water, then he ate the soap

Then he died with a bubble in his throat.

In came the doctor, in came the nurse

In came the lady with the alligator purse (with the "ins" girls jumped into the rope)

Measles said the doctor, mumps said the nurse

Nothing said the lady with the alligator purse

Out went the doctor, out went the nurse

Out went the lady with the alligator purse (girls jumped out)

(I think there were many more verses to this but I can't remember them.)

I'm lazy too print out the verse but it was the clapping one - Miss Suzie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T_HYbva-HQ

Not on top of old smokey... on top of SPAGHETTI!

How about She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes... she'll be riding 6 white horses when she comes... and we'll all go out to meet her when she comes... we'll all have chicken and dumplings.

Or I've been working on the railroad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkQQbRqLoCI

In the mid-60's we'd gather round in a circle on the playground and sing: "I went to old Kentucky, the old Kentucky Fair, I met a senorita, with flowers in her hair. Oh shake them, shake them, shake them, shake them if you can -- shake them like a milkshake an' shake them once again. Round an' round an' round she goes, where she stops nobody knows" Whoever got pointed to, had to go to the middle of the circle and it would all start again. Umm, milkshakes? I don't think I'd teach that to any little girls today! I wonder, were the teachers stifling laughter or were they as innocent as us kids?

Oouey Gooey was a worm

A mighty worm was he

He sat upon a railroad track

The train he did not see

Oouey Gooey!

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream

Throw your teacher overboard

And listen to her scream.

Nine days later

Floating down the Delaware

In her underwear

Along comes a polar bear

Who bites her in the underwear

And that's how the polar bear died.

Lulu had a tugboat

Tugboat had a bell

Lulu went to heaven

Tugboat went to

Hello operator

Give me number nine

If they do not answer

Cut off their

Behind the refrigerator

There's a piece of glass

Lulu slipped and fell on it

And cut her little

Ask me no questions

Tell me no lies

Lulu told me all of this

Just before she died

A parody sung on high school buses during the long ride home.

Its a parody of a gospel song and uses the same music. I only remember the opening line:

At the bar, at the bar

where I smoked my first cigar.

and all my troubles rolled away.

In high school ours was:

Roll roll roll your joint

Gently firm and clean

Merrily merrily merrily merrily

Life is but a dream

Sung to the tune of Stormy Weather...

Don't know why

There're no buttons on my fly

Talon zipper....

And then the Toreador song...

Toreador

Don't spit on the floor

Use the cuspidor

What'd you think it's for!

Since these wonderful verses are ingrained in our brains, it's kinda useless to correct others. Another one:

I went to the animal fair

The birds and the beasts were there

The old baboon by the light of the moon

Was combing his auburn hair.

The monkey he got drunk

And sat on the elephant's trunk

The elephant sneezed, went down on his knees

And that was the end of the monk - the monk - the monk.

Some of these I'm passing on to great grandchildren because I hate to think of them being lost forever. Are you also trying to keep them alive?

One of the above jogged my memory - a chant we would say when on the bus:

``Hey bus driver speed up a little bit,
speed up a little bit, speed up a little bit,
Hey bus driver speed up a little bit,
You`re going way too slow``.

And another ``bad`` one we used to sing:

``I know a girl from Port aux Basques,
Hey laddie laddie oh,
She`s got pimples on her a$$,
Hey laddie laddie oh``.

(Port aux Basques was a town a few hours from our town. We would think of other towns and make up lyrics to go with it).

watchmelol - our high school pot song was

No stems, no seeds that you don't need

Acapulco Gold is *take long noisy toke*

bad ass weed

There's a place in France

Where the naked ladies dance.

There's a hole in the wall

Where the men can see it all.

Whistle while you work!

Hitler is a jerk!

Mrs. Sweeney but his weenie,

Now it doesn't work!

Since there is a double pronoun in Animal Fair, think I'll change the wording to "the monkey got so drunk, he sat on the elephant's trunk" just to suit myself.

sung to the tune of old smoky...

On top of old (insert school name here)

All covered with sand

I shot Mr. (insert teacher/principal name here)

With a pink rubber band

I couldn't have missed him

Even if I tried

Because Mr. (name) is seven feet wide

One day I went swimming, where there were no women

Down by the deep blue sea

Seeing no one there, I hung my underwear

Upon a willow tree

Dove into the water, just like pharaoh's daughter

Swam in the river Nile

Someone saw me there, and stole my underwear

And left me with a smile.....

Many a nights I spent with Mini the Mermaid

Down at the bottom of the sea

There beneath the corals, I forgot my morals

Gosh she was so good to me

All the other fishes used to gather around

Just to watch our rendezvous

It was ashes to ashes, and dust to dust

If you don't like my figure get your hand off my......

Shoulder

Many a nights I spent with Mini Mermaid, down at the bottom of the sea.

Poor little (insert name)

Sitting on a fence

Trying to make a dollar

Out of 99 cents

Sung to the tune of "Here comes the bride":

"Here comes the bride
Big fat and wide
See how she wiggles
Her big backside"

Here comes the bride

All dressed in pink

Open the window

And let out the stink

This is a really old verse that my Grandfather learned as a child in England, he taught his kids, my Dad taught us and we have passed it down to the next 2 generations. I believe it originated in Manchester. I was babysitting my great nephews a few weeks ago and they thought they would shock me reciting "toilet talk" Imagine their surprise when I joined right in. There eyes were huge haha.

Mariah, Mariah she peed on the fire

The fire was too hot so she peed in the pot

The pot was too round so she peed on the ground

The ground was too flat so she peed on the cat

And the cat ran away with the pee on its back

haha growing up with 4 brothers you learn them all

Gene, Gene made a machine

Joe. Joe made it go

Art, Art blew a fart

And blew the whole darn thing apart

My Dad taught us this one and also my niece Katie when she was little, she just loved it and would recite it to anyone who would listen

When you see a hearse go by,
You will be the next to die.
They wrap you up in a big white sheet,
And drop you down 6 long, long feet

So you're ok for about a week,
But then your coffin starts to leak.

The worms crawl in,

The worms crawl out,

In your stomach

And out your mouth

So whenever you see a hearse go by,
Then you know you're next to die!

Nobody likes me - Everybody hates me

Guess I'll go eat worms.

Fat one, skinny ones, big ones, small ones

Oh see how they squirm.

You bite off their head, then suck out the guts

Then throw the skin away.

Nobody likes me - everybody hates me

Guess I'll go eat worms.

And then there's always the very, very nasty

There once was a man from Nantucket..........

Enough said lol

edited to correct typo

(That's Nantucket....)

The worms crawl in

The worms crawl out

They play pinochle upon your snout

Your body turns a sickly green

And pus runs out like whipping cream

...bring me my spoon!

I learned yet another version...

Don't you laugh when the hearse goes by

For you may be the next to die!

They'll wrap you up in a big white sheet

And throw you down, ' bout six feet deep!

All is right for the next six-weeks,

Then the sheet gets some leaks!

The worms crawl in,

The worms crawl out.

The worms play pinochle on your snout!

The pus runs out like whipping cream!

Get some bread. You can't scream!

And on a lighter note...

Starkle, Starkle little Twink!

Who the Hell you are, I think!

I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol,

Only some thinkle peep I am!

I've only had tea martoonies,

And I don't know who's me, yet.

But the drinker I sit here,

The longer I get!

I remember a commercial,

"Pepsi Cola hits the spot

twelve full ounces - that's a lot

twice as much for a nickel, too -

Pepsi Cola is the drink for you".

ole joyful

LOL, I work for Pepsico and you've be surprised how many of my customers (main numbers for the sites) have that commercial as the hold music. Along with 'Munch a bunch of, munch a bunch of, munch a bunch of, munch a bunch of Fritos go with lunch' :-) Vintage!

I recognize many of the above, and different versions, too.

My aunt used to recite this one:

I had a little dog, and his name was Ring,

And on his tail, I tied a little string.

I pulled on the string 'til his tail turned blue.

Get away, Ring, I'm through with you!

And:

A B C D ... goldfish?

L M N O ... goldfish.

O S A R ... goldfish!

Years later someone else used puppies instead of goldfish, and added the line CMPN?

We had our own variations on a lot of these, but I don't think I've seen mentioned:

(Use names of friends you are teasing, I'll use "John" and "Mary"):

John and Mary, up in a tree,

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

First comes love, then comes marriage,

Then comes Mary with a baby carriage.

...

Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay, my wife had twins today!

Got married yesterday!

Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay!

...

Hitler! He only had one ball,

Goering had two, but very small,

Himmler had something sim'lar,

And poor old Goebbels had no balls at all.

...

Great big gobs of ooey gooey rotten eggs,

little piggies' hairy legs

moulded monkey's milk

All mixed in with ventilated vulture vomit

And I'm without my spoon!

...

School's out! School's out! The teacher let the monkeys out!

No more pencils! No more books! No more teacher's dirty looks!

...

And this is one my mother taught me, but the words are a bit wrong from the original (this is Mom's version):

Hut-Sut Braw on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Braw on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.

Now the Hut-Sut is a Swedish town, the rillerah is a stream.
The brawla is the boy and girl,
The sooit is their dream.

Hut-Sut Braw on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Braw on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.

...

A skipping rhyme:

Not last night but the night before

Twenty five robbers came knocking at the door.

I went outside (jump out, run around one of the rope turners)

They ran in (jump back in)

And this is what they said to me:

Spanish dancer, turn around (turn around while skipping)

Spanish dancer, touch the ground (touch the ground)

Spanish dancer, do a kick (kick)

Spanish dancer, do the splits (jump out).

...

One, two, three, four, five

Once I caught a fish alive!

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Then I let him go again!

Why did you let him go?

Because he bit my finger so.

Which finger did he bite?

This little pinkie on my right!

...

The bear went over the mountain,

The bear went over the mountain,

The bear went over the mountain,

To see what he could see.

And what do you think he saw?

And what do you think he saw?

The other side of the mountain,

The other side of the mountain,

The other side of the mountain,

Was all that he could see.

...

The noble Duke of York,

He had ten thousand men.

He marched then up to the top of a hill

And he marched them down again.

And when they were up, they were up,

and when they were down they were down,

And when they were only halfway up they were neither up nor down.

...

I can remember playing London Bridge and B-I-N-G-O in kindergarten and A Tisket, a Tasket and Oranges and Lemons in the back yard. Looking back on it, we must have sang and chanted a lot, but it seemed normal to us. I wonder why kids today don't seem to have a similarly wide repertoire?

The jump rope version we had (I've seen a similar one written twice already)

Miss Suzie had a steamboat

The steamboat had a bell

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 from behind

The fridgerator, there was a piece of glass

Miss Suzie sat upon it and broke her little as-

K 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 Suzie and her boyfriend are kissing in the

D-A-R-K

D-A-R-K

Dark, dark dark!!

Such a nostalgia trip!

our version of the "great gobs" song was...

Great green gobs of ground up gophers guts

Mutilated monkeys meat,

Dirty little birdies feet,

And me without a spoon!

Colleenoz, I think kids today don't have "that" kind of a reportoire because so much of their entertainment is media driven, and available at the touch of a button or a screen. We made up games, and learned "little ditties" from our friends and sometimes from our parents. We spent hours laughing and reciting and editing to fit the situation. Funny (and wonderful!) that so many of us can still remember all these!

I remember all of these. Especially the jump rope ones. (Became quite the champ at Chinese jump rope) I also remember the song at the Thanksgiving play in 1st grade.

A turkey sat on a backyard fence

and he sang this sad sad tune

Thankgiving Day is coming

and I know I'll be eaten sooon

gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble

I would like to run away

gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble

I don't like Thanksgiving Day!

and to my Mr. Pumpkin named Danny(I was Mrs. Pumpkin) you were my first crush.

I remember many of the ones that have been quoted, and enjoyed hearing them again.

The "Hut sut braw ..." thing was a popular song, maybe with a Swedish connection?, back in the 40s.

Another commercial that I remember was

"I'm Chiquita banana and I've come to say,

bananas ought to ripen in a certain way,

when they are flecked with brown and have golden hue,

bananas taste the best and are the best for you ...

you can put 'em in a salad, you can put 'em in a pie,

aye ... any way you wanna eat 'em,

it's impossible to beat 'em,

but bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator ...

and you should never put bananas ... in the refrigerator.

ole joyful

The other day I met a bear

Out in the woods, away out there.

He looked at me, I looked at him

He sized up me, I sized up him.

He said to me, why don't you run?

I see you ain't got any gun.

And so I ran away from there

But right behind me was that bear.

And then I see ahead of me

A great big tree, oh glory be!

The highest branch was 10 ft up

I'd have to jump and trust to luck.

And so I jumped into the air

But I missed that branch away up there.

Now don't you fret and don't you frown

'cause I caught that branch on the way back down!

3 6 9, monkeys on a line

Line broke, monkeys choked

And they all went to heaven in a little row boat.

We three kings of orient are

Tried to smoke a rubber cigar

It was loaded, it exploded

((pause))

We two kings of orient are (etc)

My mother and your mother were hanging out clothes

My mother punched your mother right in the nose

What color was the blood?

interesting how the rhymes change over time & distance..

We chanted the "Cinderella" jump rope rhyme a bit different:

Cinderella dressed in yella

went upstairs to kiss her fella.

made a mistake, kissed a snake.

How many doctors did it take?

& there's one that I came across, don't know *anybody* else who remembers it, but I've always liked it.

A little seed lay in the ground

& soon began to sprout.

"Now which of the flow'rs all around"

it mused, "shall I turn out?"

The lily's face is fair & proud

but just a trifle cold.

The rose, I think, is rather loud,
& then its fashion's old."

& so it mused the livelong day,

this supercilious seed,

til it emerged one day in May

& found itself...a weed.

I always remember that little rhyme when I run across a critic!

I thought of one!

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

the doctor called the nurse

the nurse called the lady with the alligator purse!

Gosh, I've never heard of most of these!!! I must be much older than all of you.

John and Sally (insert names of whoever you are teasing) sittin' in a tree, (spell out ) k i s s i n g

First comes love, then comes marriage

then comes little Johnny in a baby carriage.

The worms crawl in. The worms crawl out. The worms play peaknucle in your mouth. Your stomach turns a mossy green. And pus comes out like whipping cream.

Miss Mary Mack. Sat on a tack. With silver buttons down her back.

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.

********

Ring around the rosy,

Pockets full of posies,

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

Thanks to all of you for reminding me of my childhood. I was not exposed to many of these living on a farm and isolated for other children. We did experience some of these during school. However, during our high school days, we country kids endured long bus rides every day and it was during this time that parody songs would burst forth and nearly drive the bus driver nuts. I can't remember much of these. There were songs about a "A wart on a frog, on a log, in the bottom of the sea." Each tine the verse was repeated, a phrase would be added. And then, there was "99 bottles of beer on the wall ... ."

Another one sung to the tune of "The halls of Tripoli" :

Its tea, its tea,

That makes you want a crumpet,

In the halls of Tripoli. . . . .