I still don't understand the snake thing....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this one was a jump rope song.

Cinderella, dressed in yella
Went upstairs to kiss her fella
Made a mistake
Kissed a snake
How many doctors did it take?
1, 2, 3, 4...

I was in college before someone explained the kissing a snake thing to me.

Don't feel bad, you just explained it to me.

Ha! Me too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this one was a jump rope song.

Cinderella, dressed in yella
Went upstairs to kiss her fella
Made a mistake
Kissed a snake
How many doctors did it take?
1, 2, 3, 4...

I was in college before someone explained the kissing a snake thing to me.

Don't feel bad, you just explained it to me.

Anonymous wrote:I think this one was a jump rope song.

Cinderella, dressed in yella
Went upstairs to kiss her fella
Made a mistake
Kissed a snake
How many doctors did it take?
1, 2, 3, 4...

I was in college before someone explained the kissing a snake thing to me.

I'm 40, grew up here and knew both of the Miss Susie songs, but we did them as Miss Lucy songs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's an innocuous one. Do kids still use this?

Say, say, oh 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 jolly friends
Forevermore!

OH, I always thought it was "Cee Cee, my playmate", as in, a playmate named Cee Cee.

I thought it was "See, See".

Tried teaching my DD that one, which has rather complicated clapping, and she wasn't interested. Maybe she was too young.

I definitely remember Greasy, Grimy, Gopher Guts, which also reminds me of Worms:

Nobody likes me,
Everybody hates me,
I'm gonna eat some worms
Fat ones, skinny ones, little itty-bitty ones
I'm gonna eat some worms

Bite their heads off,
Suck the juices out,
Throw the skins away.
No one knows how I survive on 50 worms a day!

Inka-dinka bottle of ink, the cork fell out and you stink (and whoever "stink" landed on was "it" for tag)

There goes (kid's name)
Floatin' down the Delaware
Chewin' on his underwear
Can't afford another pair
Six months later he gets bitten by a polar bear
Poor polar bear!

Anonymous wrote:Great thread, OP!

We did Miss Susie and the Place on Mars one all the time when we were kids. Also, Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts and Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Burning of the School...

We also did a thing with dandlions, where we'd say: "Mama had a baby and its head [here you pop off the seed head] popped off!". Always made me kinda queasy, but I did it anyway. Poor babies!

OMG, I forgot about great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts!

Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat
Chopped up baby parakeet
Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts
And I forgot my spoon


Did anyone do:
The horse and the flea and the three blind mice
Were sitting on a tombstone shooting dice
The horse he slipped and fell on the flea
"Whoops," said the flea, "There's a horsey on me!"

Boom-boom ain't it great to be crazy
Boom-boom ain't it great to be crazy
1-2-3-4, come on [name] let's sing some more!

Way up North where there's ice and snow
There lived a penguin and his name was Joe
He got so tired of black and white
He wore pink slacks to the dance last night

Boom-boom ain't it great to be crazy
Boom-boom ain't it great to be crazy
1-2-3-4, come on [name] let's sing some more!

Way down south were bananas grow
The flea stepped on the elephant's toe
The elephant cried with tears in his eyes
Why don't you pick on someone your own size

Boom-boom ain't it great to be crazy
Boom-boom ain't it great to be crazy
1-2-3-4, come on [name] let's sing some more!

Inky binky bonky
Daddy bought a donkey
Donkey died, Daddy cried
Inky, binky, bonky

Anonymous wrote:Here's an innocuous one. Do kids still use this?

Say, say, oh 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 jolly friends
Forevermore!

So sorry, playmate
I cannot play with you
My dollies have the flu
The mumps and measles, too
I have no rain barrel
I have no cellar door
But we'll be jolly friends forevermore (more, shut the door)

Anonymous wrote:Here's an innocuous one. Do kids still use this?

Say, say, oh 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 jolly friends
Forevermore!

OH, I always thought it was "Cee Cee, my playmate", as in, a playmate named Cee Cee.

Bah bah bah boomsy ay
There is no school today
Our teacher passed away
We threw her in the bay
She swam to Santa Fe
We called her sister A.
Bah bah bah boomsy ay
There is no school today

Anonymous wrote:And the always PC:

China man, had a wife
Gave him so much trouble in life
Rolled her up to the top of a hill
Rolled her down like a rolling pin

Chickolaichi Chickolora
Bungalora
Piggy-Wiggy Whack-Whack

Poka Moka
Hit him in the Polk
Chickolai, Chickolai chi chai cho.

Ah, the full words. Thanks, google.

Chinaman had a wife,
Gave him such a miserable life.
Rolled him up to the top of the hill,
Rolled him down like a rolling pill.
Chorus:
Chicka lucka chee chi cho
Chicka lora, bunga lora
Piggy wiggy whack whack
Hoca, mocha, hit him with a poka
Chitterb ug, chitterbug, chee chi cho.
Chinaman had seven sons.
These are the names of the youngest ones.
[Chorus]
Chinaman now is dead.
To his coffin I was led.
One thing I remember of him:
Chinaman was American.