Good God! did I hear aright??!! Flora/do your balls hang low

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Seriously, I just heard a child on tv sing part of that song, and then the VO said something about Flora!

Do your balls hang low, can you swing 'em to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow?

Really? Flora? Children singing 'dirty' songs on tv at Xmas?

I need to add "shome mishtake, surely"

I haven't seen it but I thought the kid friendly version of that song was ears not balls

The song is definitely "do your ears hang low?" It was in The Singing Kettle once upon a time. Mind out the gutter, OP.

Another version is with tits

Have never ever heard it with ears!

We used to sing the "do your ears hang low" version in Girl Guides many years ago.

What's the Flora bit? I don't understand

Isn’t there a line about regimental soldiers in there too?

Do your ears hang low
Do they wobble too and fro
Can you toss the over your shoulder like a regimental solider
Do your ears hang low

There a like about can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow, but I’m not sure where that fits...

Tie in a knot line is after the wobbling line 😁

Do your ears hang low?
Do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them over your shoulder,
Like a regimental soldier?
Do you ears hang low!

It's ears. My GD got the elephant from an elderly relative, two years ago.

We were in hysterics when we first heard it.

But where does Flora come into it?

I am in my 50s. It was always a rude version on our school field...

Nah, it's not ears. It's balls, always was. It must have been cleaned up for kids' consumption, like "eeny meeny miny mo" was. I was aware I couldn't sing the original ofthat to dd 20 years ago, but there was no consensus among my fellow new-mums what the alternative would be. I sang froggie, someone else sang rabbit etc.

My mind's not always in the gutter! This was the version they sang in 2nd WW so yah boo! Well, that's what my uncle told me, and he was there.

Of course "do your balls hang low?" also makes sense but I doubt that's what the Flora kid is singing 😂 Kids at my school used to sing "give me gas in my ass keep me farting" instead of "oil in my lamp". I don't think that would be playing on TV though 😂

We sang do your ears hang low in Guides, 35 years ago. The lyrics were printed in our campfire song book.

I'm vaguely remembering one from my time at school

Eee by gum does your willy touch your bum?

Do your tits hang low? Can you tie them in a bow?

Can't remember the rest!

The 1st time I heard that song was when teaching a music lesson about pitch and the word was ears. It wasn't until much later when I heard the balls version ants I thought it was wrong!

The eeny meeny rhyme - I could never understand why it was so wrong until just a few years ago when there was something in the paper about Jeremy Clarkson having said it and I googled the words. We always knew it as
Eeny meet miny mo
Put the baby on the po'
When it's done
Wipe its bum
With a piece of chewing gum.

Obviously doesn't make sense and it's still not OK to say it because of its origins but that was seriously the only version I knew until my mid twenties at least

Definitely ears. I remember singing it in a primary school assembly 25 years ago. There is a version with tits instead of ears too

@NotTonightJosepheen We sang "catch a tigger". Quite a few traditional playground songs with really racist undertones.

I always thought it was ears too
I loved that song!

It is a (horrifying!) shame about the original words to eenie meanie. I didn’t actually know it until a couple of years ago.

I’m unsure, is it enough to change the words and let the origin be lost forever in the midst of time?

The original version is ears. We sang it 45+ years ago.

I thought it was "Do your boobs hang low?"

Still can't see why this would be relevant to margerine, though. Is it a side effect of eating Flora?

It was definitely "catch a tigger" round my way too. As in Tigger from Winnie the Pooh. It never occurred to me that was a rhyme of the original word until the Clarkson thing.