Here is the church and here is the steeple...

[Tapoopoo]

If you know the next lines, where did you grow up?

We did it all the time as children. It didnt make sense then. It doesnt make sense now.

It popped into my head and no one here knew what I was talking about with with the finger action. I grew up West Mids.

Open it up, and here’s the people [turn hands other way up and waggle fingers]

Liverpool

Yes heard it and I am from Dublin.

Open the doors and there's all the people.

Surrey/Gloucestershire but mother with W Yorks heritage

South east but have foreign parents. My three year old is obsessed with it, always asking us to do it for him and he finally cracked how to do it himself this week!

Yes, we did that, and the parson bit. Manchester.

"Dearly beloved brethren, don't you think it's a sin that when we peel potatoes we throw away the skin? The skins will feed the pigs and the pigs feed you, dearly beloved brethren, don't you think it's true?"

Here's the lady's knives and forks
Here's the lady's table
Here's the lady's looking glass
And here's the baby's cradle.

Like the church & steeple, but I reverse.

And here’s all the people. North West and Midlands.

Does anyone remember the one about showing your knickers to the football team? The 70’s really was a different world.

Look inside and see the people.

East Midlands

Open the doors and there’s all the people - Essex

Could I ask about a different rhyme? Does anyone remember the tricksy and slightly unkind actions that went with the following:

Here's a tree in summer.
Here's a tree in winter.
Here's a bunch of flowers.
And here's the April showers!

Open the doors and here's all the people (north Essex)

It was definitely open the doors because you did a door opening thing with your thumbs

Yes, while stripping the heads off wild grasses then flicking them at the other person.

I saw it on Playschool.

Open up the doors and here are the people.
Hampshire

I remember doing that with a piece of grass that had gone to seed. At the end you threw the seeds over the other person's head!

That's the one I know. Parents from NE and NW. Grew up mainly in the South.

Exactly that! Didn't the stripped seeds make a lovely bouquet.

As a hayfever sufferer I didn't appreciate the shower though.

Open the doors and see all the people

(Grew up in Yorkshire)

This - north east

Yes ! And then some poor soul would start sneezing !

Open the doors and see all the people. Dorset.

Same, grew up in Essex and Hertfordshire, parents from N London.

Here’s the door and here’s all the people.

I grew up in the west of Ireland.