What school chants do you remember?

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When we were in an activity weekend it was we're from (village name)

Bumper car,
Bumper car,
Numer 48

Went round the cooooorner
And slammed on his brakes!

On trips.

The back of the bus is in a huff, barley boo,
The back of the bus is in a huff, barley boo,

The back of the bus is in a huff,
Because they cannot sing like us,
Inky dinky barley boo-oo-oo.

80s 90s NI. I think it was meant to be parlez vous but we had no truck with that and changed it to barley boo. I don't know why.

Hitler has only got one ball

He really did have only one, apparently.

No more days of school

Build a bonfire, build a bonfire

I knew them mid-late 60s.

Did anyone know

Whenever you see a hearse go by
Remember that you're going to die
la la la lalala la la la....

🎶One more day at school,
One more day of sorrow
One more day at this old dump and we'll be home tomorrow!

Fourth the one God loves best
Fifth the one who never got dressed
Sixth the rotten egg

A dot and a dash, and a dash and a dot
And a biiiig red question mark
Blood rushing up
Blood rushing down
Spiders crawling all around
Tight squeeze
Cool breeze
Egg on your head
To make you freeze

Not so much a chant but often heard guldered across the playground: yer Ma's yer Da. Often preceded or followed with a resounding, collective, "Yeow!"

Omg I’d forgotten about this 🫢

.....the bigger the better, the tighter the sweater, the boys depend on us!

I think it was meant to be parlez vous

Yes, it's Mademoiselle from Armentieres, a First World War song.

What era did you sing that one? As my kids came home from school with that one last year. Don’t recall it from my schooldays!

Yea this is the one I remember too.

Also linking arms going around chanting 'who wants to play hopscotch/bulldog/football/etc.' and if you wanted to play you just linked arms with the person on either end, but if they didn't want you to play then they squeezed their elbows in.

Also 'one, and one, the story's just begun in the bedroom, all day and all of the night. Two and two, he's giving it to you in the bedroom, all day and all of the night. Three and three, now he's giving it to me in the bedroom, all day and all.of the night. Four and four, now we're doing it some more, in the bedroom, all day and all.of the night. ' there were more verses....

1980s primary school. Imagine the Mumsnet thread on that if it has been around at the time 😂

We used to have one that went : What’s your name? Mary Jane. Where do you live? Down the lane. What’s your number? Cucumber. What’s your car? Mars bar.

We had so many! Reflecting the cartoons of the times we had one that went ‘Heman, has the power, to lift up a flower…but after an hour due dropped it.’ And ‘my little pony, skinny and bony.’ Can’t remember the rest.

None that I know of

That was one of the verses, and this was the chorus (Lancashire):

Down at our school, people are so funny,
If tha wants to see us,
Tha'll av to pay some money,
Soldiers half a crown,
Sailors half a guinea,
Big fat men are two and ten,
And little kids a penny.

😂

Eeny meeny macker acker air eye dominacker chickeracker Om Pom push

You fell over you fell over
yer mum

That was a football hooligan chant 70s/80s
A variation was your going home in a (insert city name )ambulance.

Mortified to say but in our school I recall ‘fight, fight, black v white’ 🥺

Early 90s

We are up, we are down, we don’t care if the school falls down.
No more English, no more French, no more sitting on the old school bench

If you drink Pepsi you are sexy
if you drink coke you will smoke
some men are very very funny, this is the way they count their money
umpah umpah stick it up your jumper

1975 primary school in England. We used to link arms and skip around the playground chanting
B A Y B A Y B A Y C I T Y
WITH A B A Y C I T Y
BAY CITY ROLLERS ARE THE BEST.
My best friend had a tin lunch box in tartan ( the band were Scottish) with a picture of them on the kid. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Down at fraggle rock
Grab a fraggle by the cock
Swing him round your head
Now the fraggle's dead

Grab another one
Stick a chainsaw up his bum
Turn the power on
Now the fraggle's gone