Anonymous
Post 07/13/2023 18:27     Subject: Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
So weird that someone brought back this thread from six years ago!
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2023 17:45     Subject: Re:Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
Anonymous wrote:Is this part of the same song, or different?

Miiss 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 fit down his throat

Miss Lucy called the doctor, miss Lucy called the nurse, miss Lucy called the lady with the alligator purse...



+1 This is it.

You can change around the lyrics. Your kid won't know the difference.


Also, kids don't take the lyrics literally. They're just silly words set to a catchy tune while doing clapping hand motions with your best friend or on the playground.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2023 14:38     Subject: Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
Anonymous wrote:^CT in the 80s and also did the dandeoline thing

For us, it was Miss Lucy, 18 hr bra, and the glass "went right up her..."

We also sang the tiny Tim bathtub/alligator purse as a clapping song

Anyone do the "crack an egg on your back, let the yoke drip down, yoke drip down..." hypnotizing game where you were supposed to open your eyes and see different colors?


Ugh yes, the yolk. “Let the yolk drip down … let the yolk drip down …”

And we did Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black …
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2023 14:36     Subject: Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
Anonymous wrote:Grew up in Fairfax County in the early 90s:

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 kick you from
behind the 'frigerator there was 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 are in the meadow, 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 is like a movie
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 the 80 meter bra

There must've been an ending but I don't remember it...


Exactly this except Miss Lucy, not Miss Susie. Philadelphia, late 1980s. We did it as a clapping game. We also did the Tiny Tim to the same tune.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2023 14:17     Subject: Re:Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
I don’t remember it eve saying anything about broccoli 😂😂
Anonymous
Post 10/27/2017 23:16     Subject: Re:Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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 will chop up your
behind the 'frigerator there was a piece 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, 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!

The dark is like a movie, the movies like a show
The 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 the 40 acre bra

She dyed her hair all purple, she dyed her hair all pink
She dyed her hair all polka dot then washed it down the sink.

Miss Suzie had a baby, she named him Tiny Tim
She put him in the bath tub 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 Suzie called the doctor, the doctor called the nurse
The nurse called the lady with the alligator purse.
Measles said the doctor, mumps said the nurse
I don't know said the lady with the alligator purse.

Southern California early/mid 90's


Boston, too!! Early '80s. Although I honestly don't remember if it was Lucy or suzie after reading all of these. But I absolutely sang along to this whole version.


NYC suburbs mid-90s!
Anonymous
Post 10/27/2017 15:32     Subject: Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
Anonymous wrote:Anyone do the "crack an egg on your back, let the yoke drip down, yoke drip down..." hypnotizing game where you were supposed to open your eyes and see different colors?


We did this at slumber parties but no seeing diff colors - it was just a backrub type thing. The hallucinations must've been lost in the translation!
Anonymous
Post 10/27/2017 15:18     Subject: Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
We did the "milk, milk, lemonade, around the corner chocolate..."

And I admit I still giggle when I think back to it.
Anonymous
Post 10/27/2017 15:17     Subject: Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
^^^ deaF police man
Anonymous
Post 10/27/2017 15:16     Subject: Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
Did anyone say:

Early in the morning
Late at night
Two dead boys
Got up to fight
Back to back
They faced each other
Drew their swords
And shot each other
The dead policeman
Heard their noise
And came to kill
The two dead boys
If you don’t believe
This lie is true
Then ask the blind man
He saw it too.

Sounds so horrid and morbid now. But we just shouted it quickly and we’re pretty oblivious to how dark it was. Just felt like a taboo thrill.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2017 23:42     Subject: Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You can't find it because it is Miss Lucy, not Suzy.


Miss Susie in California, too!


Miss Susie in Ohio!
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2017 11:54     Subject: Re:Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
We did "light as a feather, stiff as a board" and Bloody Mary at slumber parties and girl scout retreats in Missouri in the 80s (and told ghost stories, always including the China doll with the long fingernails), but I've never heard of the egg/yolk thing.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2017 10:03     Subject: Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:^CT in the 80s and also did the dandeoline thing

For us, it was Miss Lucy, 18 hr bra, and the glass "went right up her..."

We also sang the tiny Tim bathtub/alligator purse as a clapping song

Anyone do the "crack an egg on your back, let the yoke drip down, yoke drip down..." hypnotizing game where you were supposed to open your eyes and see different colors?


no, but we did "light as a feather, stiff as a board" and Bloody Mary


Yes to all! What a flashback I'm having now lol.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 21:09     Subject: Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
Anonymous wrote:^CT in the 80s and also did the dandeoline thing

For us, it was Miss Lucy, 18 hr bra, and the glass "went right up her..."

We also sang the tiny Tim bathtub/alligator purse as a clapping song

Anyone do the "crack an egg on your back, let the yoke drip down, yoke drip down..." hypnotizing game where you were supposed to open your eyes and see different colors?


no, but we did "light as a feather, stiff as a board" and Bloody Mary
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 20:53     Subject: Re:Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell ... ding ding - Appropriate age?
Anonymous wrote: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 will chop up your
behind the 'frigerator there was a piece 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, 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!

The dark is like a movie, the movies like a show
The 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 the 40 acre bra

She dyed her hair all purple, she dyed her hair all pink
She dyed her hair all polka dot then washed it down the sink.

Miss Suzie had a baby, she named him Tiny Tim
She put him in the bath tub 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 Suzie called the doctor, the doctor called the nurse
The nurse called the lady with the alligator purse.
Measles said the doctor, mumps said the nurse
I don't know said the lady with the alligator purse.

Southern California early/mid 90's


Boston, too!! Early '80s. Although I honestly don't remember if it was Lucy or suzie after reading all of these. But I absolutely sang along to this whole version.