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Who wants to play nursery rhyme segue?

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Thistledew · 19/05/2021 20:00

I amuse myself when singing nursery rhymes to DD by making one nursery rhyme segue to the next by some sort of theme. So for instance, I might start with London Bridge is Falling Down, then go:

London's Burning (London connection)
Jack and Jill (water)
Miss Polly had a Dolly (medical treatment)
Polly put the kettle on (Polly)
I'm a little tea pot (tea)

And on the basis that I find 'I'm a little tea pot' to be a tough one to follow on from, who wants to play? Just add the song that you would go to from the previous poster's suggestion.

OP posts:
35andThriving · 16/06/2021 12:57

Inky pinky ponkey
Daddy had a donkey.
Donkey died
And Daddy cried.
Inky pinky ponkey.

Girlonthego · 16/06/2021 13:49

Wee Willy Winky, runs through the town
Upstairs downstairs in his nightgown

MarieVanGoethem · 16/06/2021 14:44

The lion and the unicorn
Were fighting for the crown
The lion beat the unicorn
All around the town.
Some gave them white bread,
And some gave them brown;
Some gave them plum cake
and drummed them out of town.

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35andThriving · 16/06/2021 17:17

Little Tommy Tucker
Sings for this supper.
What shall we give him?
Brown bread and butter.

How shall he cut it without any knife?
And how shall he marry without any wife?

MrsMackesy · 17/06/2021 01:32

Daisy, Daisy
Give me your answer do
I'm all crazy
All for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
We can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet
Upon the seat
Of a bicycle made for two.

JPduck · 17/06/2021 06:56

One, two, 3,4,5
Once I caught a fish alive
6 7 8 9 10
Then I let it go again

MarieVanGoethem · 17/06/2021 11:35

One, two, Buckle my shoe;
Three, four, Knock at the door;
Five, six, Pick up sticks;
Seven, eight, Lay them straight:
Nine, ten, A big fat hen;
Eleven, twelve, Dig and delve;
Thirteen, fourteen, Maids a-courting;
Fifteen, sixteen, Maids in the kitchen;
Seventeen, eighteen, Maids in waiting
Nineteen, twenty, My plate's empty.

JPduck · 17/06/2021 17:54

Miss polly had a dolly
Who was sick sick sick
So she called for the doctor to be quick quick
The doctor came with his bag and his hat
And he knocked at the door with a rat a tat tat

35andThriving · 17/06/2021 18:24

Doctor Foster
Went to Gloucester,
In a shower of rain.
Stepped in a puddle
Right up to his middle,
And never went there again.

MrsMackesy · 18/06/2021 09:30

Rain, rain
Go away
Come again
Another day.

MarieVanGoethem · 18/06/2021 11:07

It's raining, it's pouring,
The old man is snoring,
He bumped his head and went to bed
And couldn't get up in the morning.

JPduck · 18/06/2021 12:12

There were in the bed and the little one said roll over, roll over
And they all rolled over and one fell out
Bumped his head and gave a shout OUCH!

35andThriving · 18/06/2021 13:14

Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are.

MarieVanGoethem · 18/06/2021 15:53

Little girl, little girl where have you been?
Gathering roses to give to the Queen.
Little girl, little girl what gave she you?
She gave me a diamond as big as my shoe.

JPduck · 18/06/2021 21:28

There was an old lady who lived in a shoe
She had so many children she didn't know what to do

35andThriving · 18/06/2021 21:29

Diddle diddle dumpling,
My son, John went to bed with his stockings on,
One shoe off, and one shoe on.
Diddle diddle dumpling,
My son, John.

MarieVanGoethem · 19/06/2021 00:44

Ding, dong, bell,
Pussy’s in the well.
Who put her in?
Little Johnny Green.
Who pulled her out?
Little Tommy Stout.
What a naughty boy was that,
To try to drown poor pussy cat,
Who ne’er did him any harm,
But killed all the mice in the farmer’s barn.

MrsMackesy · 19/06/2021 12:40

Pussy cat, pussy cat
Where have you been?
I've been up to London
To visit the Queen.
Pussy cat, pussy cat
What did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under her chair.

JPduck · 19/06/2021 15:40

Hickory dickory dock
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock stuck one the mouse ran down
Hickory dickory dock
Tick tock tick tock

TheoMeo · 19/06/2021 15:49

My Grandfather's Clock
"My grandfather's clock was too tall for the shelf
So it stood ninety years on the floor
It was taller by half than the old man himself
But it weighed not a pennyweight more

It was bought on the morn on the day that he was born
It was always his treasure and pride
But it stopped, short, never to go again
When the old man died

35andThriving · 19/06/2021 16:40

Solomon Grundy
Born on Monday
Christened on Tuesday
Married on Wednesday
Ill on Thursday
Worse on Friday
Died on Saturday
Buried on Sunday

That's the life of Solomon Grundy.

TheoMeo · 19/06/2021 17:12

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
BY EDWARD LEAR
I
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

II
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married ! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-Tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.

III
"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

35andThriving · 19/06/2021 17:58

Tom, Tom, the piper's son
Stole a pig
And away did run.

The pig was eat
And Tom was beat
And Tom went howling
Down the street.

JPduck · 19/06/2021 21:51

Oh the grand old duke of York
He had 10,000 men
He marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again.
And when they were up they were up
And when he were down they were down
And when they were only half way up
They were neither up nor down

35andThriving · 20/06/2021 16:41

As I went up the apple tree
All the apples fell on me.
Bake a pudding,
Bake a pie.
Did you ever tell a lie?
Yes you did!
You know you did!
You broke your mother's teapot lid.
L I D.... That spells lid.
Out you must go!