When Susie was a...

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Does anyone else remember chanting this as kids? It was like a song that always started with 'when susie was a baby' and continue to when she was dead, and when she was a skeleton , a ghost etc.

Not sure why but it came into my head the other day. Do children still sing it?

Dh (born 1975) denied all knowledge. He also claims he had never heard 'on top of spaghetti all covered in cheese, I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed'. I'm not sure whether to call his mother and demand an explanation or check for wires as he clearly isn't human.

Boys were oblivious to this sort of stuff @DarkForces

They just wrestled with each other in the playground or poked at worms in puddles. Singing, dancing, clapping or leaping in and out of elastic stretched around other girls' legs was beyond them...

Yes!! I remember this from the 70s/80s. How sad that it has been lost to time...

Our version (from across the pond) had a 'Miss Lucy' rather than Susie. The only verse I remember:

Miss Lucy had a baby
She called him Tiny Tim
She put him in the bathtub
To see if he could swim
He drank up all the water
He ate up all the soap
He tried to eat the bathtub
But it wouldn't go down his throat.

It rolled off the table and onto the floor. And then my poor meatball rolled out of the door.

I’d completely forgotten this! I remember it as a clapping rhyme in the 80s but I don’t remember poor Susie dying. Maybe we left that bit out.

It rolled down the garden
And under a bush
And then my poor meatball
Was nothing but mush!

Same OP! I haven’t thought about it in years but I immediately knew what you were referring to from the thread title. The only line I remember is the teenager one but do vaguely remember it carried on with her ending up as a skeleton and a ghost.

Yes! I remember this.
Or rather I remember the knickers in a car verse.

we also used to sing one which had this verse
Oh you'll never get to heaven in Fred's car, 'cus fred's car won't get that far!

I’m nearly 60, and we were singing about Susie in primary school! 😂

Snap. This line still pops into my head sometimes. It’s a clapping game isn’t it.

I discovered tonight that none of my Guides know 'on top of spaghetti'. This will be rectified next week !!

I remember it as: I’ve left my knickers in the vicar’s car.

Yes this brings back memories!
For the primary school verse we had 'miss miss I need a p*ss and I don't know where the toilet is'. Surprised no dinner lady heard and told us off for it!

There was another one involving susie which has been driving me up the wall since you started this thread. This was the one we did more often

Miss Susie had a steamboat,
The steamboat had a bell (DING DING)!
Miss Susie went to heaven,
The steam boat went to—

HELLo operator,
please give me number nine,
And if you disconnect me,
I’ll chop off your—

BEHIND the ‘fridgerator,
There lay a piece of glass,
Miss Susie sat upon it,
And cut her little—

ASK me no more questions,
Tell me no more lies,
The boys are in the bathroom,
Zipping up their—

FLIES are in the meadow,
The bees are in the park,
Miss Susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the,
D-A-R-K
D-A-R-K
DARK! DARK! DARK!

Darker than the ocean,
Darker than the sea!
Darker than the underwear my mother puts on me!

I know I know my ma!
I know I know my Pa!
I know I know my sister with the FORTY ACRE BRA!

It rolled off the table
and on to he floor
my poor little meatball...I can't remember the rest. 😂
I remember the ryhme in the OP and would have heard it in about the 70's, early 80's.
Does anyone remember
My mama told me
if I was goodie
that she would buy me
a rubber dolly
I kissed a soldier
my sister told her,
now she won't buy me
a rubber dolly

Of course as kids we changed it to 'rbber johnny' not knowing what one was or what you used it for! lol

Thank you! 👏

We’re were singing this in 1974!

Yes. Once, when drunk, I met a new friend (a new partner of one of the guys in our group) and both started doing it. Yes, very sad, but was very drunk, and just goes to show how widespread it was. Very much doubt it would be acceptable for the words to be used in an infant playground today!

Me too!

Yes! My now 7 year old was obsessed with this a few years ago! (I’d never heard it before)

Yep, child of the 70s here. Also remember the knickers and bra line best!
Granny Susie knitted.
I think Mother Susie did some sort of telling off…. I remember a finger wagging gesture!

Yes we sang that at Infant School in the 70s

and the 60s!

There were four in the bed and the little one said: "Roll over! Roll over!"
So they all rolled over and one fell out, he hit the floor and his guts fell out.
Rule Britannia! Three monkeys on a stick, one fell off and paralysed his...
There were three in the bed and so on and so forth...

I remember a comedian on TV saying his daughter sang that song and he asked her why Susie would have left her knickers in the car and the daughter said "Because she went to ballet?"