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

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Tapoopoo · 17/08/2026 14:51

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.

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Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies · 18/08/2026 11:29

And you’ll see all the people.

Gloucestershire

I couldn’t remember the last action for the parson praying, though. And I’d forgotten the two little dickie birds, and the tree in winter/summer.

Distractoskort · 18/08/2026 12:39

We used to add and what do the people say? And then we’d squeeze the persons hand together so the person would shout out. 😂

TellingBone · 18/08/2026 15:48

DooDallyHallie · 18/08/2026 05:35

I was walking down a lane
When i felt a sudden pain
Diahhorea (sniff sniff) diahhorea (sniff sniff)
I went behind a bush
And it came out with a rush
Diahhorea (sniff sniff) diahhorea (sniff sniff)
Some people think it's funny
But it's really hot and runny
Diahhorea (sniff sniff) diahhorea (sniff sniff)

If you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion...

Here is the church and here is the steeple...
NervousSheepy · 18/08/2026 15:50

DooDallyHallie · 18/08/2026 05:35

I was walking down a lane
When i felt a sudden pain
Diahhorea (sniff sniff) diahhorea (sniff sniff)
I went behind a bush
And it came out with a rush
Diahhorea (sniff sniff) diahhorea (sniff sniff)
Some people think it's funny
But it's really hot and runny
Diahhorea (sniff sniff) diahhorea (sniff sniff)

I was walking down the stairs
When it ran down my flares...

JimothyGym · 19/08/2026 12:00

NeverDropYourMooncup · 17/08/2026 17:32

Open the doors and there's all the people. Surrey/Kent but with grandparents from all over the place.

Also One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes, four...always degenerated into small child getting quicker and quicker to put a fist on top or the giggles from This Little Piggy Went to Market.

Expanding into songs as well, obviously Incy Wincy Spider, Walkies Round the Garden, Horsie, Horsie, Don't You Stop and There Were Ten in the Bed, albeit without the strange addition of remembering to tie a knot in your pyjamas because single beds are only made for 1, 2, 3, 4...

And B-I-N-G-O, One Man Went to Mow, Whose Are Those Pigs (DP's moorland primary had to teach them to not sing 'Oooos be thum pigs?'), etc.

Could do a great rendition of There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly and a terribly theatrical recitation of The Owl and the Pussycat, too. Wasn't too shabby at doing Fox Went Out One Chilly Night either.

I was most confused when taking the eldest to various groups to find them doing something about winding up bobbins as though everybody knew it. Or encouraging them when rowing their boats to scream at a crocodile and a cautionary tale about monkeys jumping on a bed.

I grew up with wind the bobbin up (70s Essex child) as well as some weirder ones like Old Roger is Dead (which we did in nursery!!). But I liked learning the newer ones at toddler groups with my children, like Open Shut Them and the Little Green Frog.

OriginalSkang · 19/08/2026 13:37

NervousSheepy · 18/08/2026 15:50

I was walking down the stairs
When it ran down my flares...

I was walking down the street, it was falling on my feet

and

Comes from your bum like a bullet from a gun

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