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Playground rhymes

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BarefootDancer · 31/01/2007 13:33

Anyone heard the latest playground rhymes from their children?

X and Y sitting in the tree
K I S S I N G!

There must be loads more going round - do you know any?

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foxtrot · 31/01/2007 13:38

LOL at latest - that one is A N C I E N T

tortoiseSHELL · 31/01/2007 13:39

We had that one at primary school but there was a bit more to it....

X and Y in a tree
K I S S I N G
First came love
then came marriage
and then they gave birth to a rotten old cabbage!

Hallgerda · 31/01/2007 13:40

X and Y up a tree
Doing something they shouldn't be
It starts with S and ends with X
OMG I think it's SEX

is the latest version of the one you quoted (well, at least it's last year's version).

2nervesleft · 31/01/2007 13:40

Barefootdancer we used to sing that in school when I was a kid and I'm 34.

X and Y sitting in a tree
K I S S I N G
First comes love
Then comes marriage
Then comes X with a baby in a carriage.

frogs · 31/01/2007 13:43

My Friend Billy is still doing the rounds, as is Willy Was a Watchdog.

Most of the ones in the Opies' book seem to have died out, though.

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BarefootDancer · 31/01/2007 13:48

So what is the Willie Watchdog one frog, and what is Opies book?

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frogs · 31/01/2007 13:57

Oh all right then, if you insist :

Mary had a little lamb
She thought it rather silly.
She threw it up into the air
And caught it by its

Willy was a watchdog
Lying in the grass
Along came a bumblebee
And stung him on the

Ask no questions
Tell no lies
I saw a policeman
Doing up his

Flies are a nuisance
Bugs are worse
And that is the end
Of my silly little verse.

frogs · 31/01/2007 13:58

On a more serious note, Iona and Peter Opie wrote a book on children's rhymes called The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.

It's a fascinating read, though very dated now.

quadrophenia · 31/01/2007 14:01

coca cola coca cola
alley alley pussycat, alley alley pussycat
boys got the muscles
teachers can't count
girls got the sexy legs you'd better watch out
gonna hypnotise you, sterilise you turn around and fight.

I had to put up with that shit whilst my twins were in year one with some dodgy dance routine, you have no idea how many times I asked them not to sing it.

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BarefootDancer · 31/01/2007 14:01

OK - so does anyone have any new ones?

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auntymandy · 31/01/2007 14:02

ancient!!
First came love then came marriage then along came a baby in a baby carriage!

auntymandy · 31/01/2007 14:05

makes me laugh when the kids come home with 'new' jokes or rhymes and they were around when I was a child!!!!!

On top of old smokey where nobody goes, there lives a young maiden without any clothes.
Along comes a cowboy...cant remember the rest!!!

MrsBadger · 31/01/2007 14:16

I lovce the Opie book - I took it out of the library so much at univeristy (when I was meant to be revising biochemisty ) I actually bought a copy.

It's a fascinating record of the time, and there's stuff in there that I just about remember. I was staggered to find out that what we'd always thought was a nonsense which-boy-likes-you game/song called Orange Balls had its roots in the Protestant / Catholic tension in N Ireland 300 years before.

I keep wishing someone would do an update...

2nervesleft · 31/01/2007 14:20

We was good kids we was. None of the rotten cabbage stuff here.

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BarefootDancer · 31/01/2007 14:24

OK - lots of nostalgia, but who knows any current rhymes (apart from quad)?

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Macdog · 31/01/2007 14:38

A website here , but I remember some of these from when I was at school.

titchy · 31/01/2007 14:46

X and y sitting on a log
Oh my God they're going to snog!!!

Jungle bells batman smells etc

tinkerbellie · 31/01/2007 14:57

we had charlie had a pigeon

charlie had a pigeon, a pigeon, a pigeon
charlie had a pigeon, a pigeon he had
he flew it by day
and he flew it by night
and when he came home he was covered in sh**e

can really remember singing that on the bus on the way to swimming

and then there is the old school dinners song
andthen the hitler hasonly got one ball etc

but i think these are really old

HappyDaddy · 31/01/2007 17:00

Jack and Mary went to the dairy
Jack got out his hairy canary
Mary said what a whopper
Let's get down and do it proper.

Ahhh primary school was such an innocent time.

wheresthehamster · 31/01/2007 17:24

Myyyyyyy name issssssssss
Elvis Presley
girls are sexy
sitting in the back seat
drinking pepsi
?
?'s gone crazy
Dad's had a baby
do me a favour -
DROP DEAD!

wheresthehamster · 31/01/2007 17:30

I think this one starts with

eeny meeny deci meeny
you are the one for me
education liberation
I like you

and ends with

caught you with your boyfriend - naughty naughty
didn't do the washing up - lazy, lazy
stole a box of candy - greedy, greedy
jumped out the window - lazy, lazy

or something like that.

Must go and do that tax return now ....

Califrau · 31/01/2007 17:46

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nikkie · 31/01/2007 19:25

I'm cowboy jo form Mexico
hands up stick 'em up
drop your guns and pick 'em up
O U T spells out

(Skipping Rhyme)

My Mummy is a baker
yummy yummy
My father is a dentist
gummy gummy
my sister is a show off
do you like me?do you like me?
my Brother is a cowboy
bang bang you're dead
50 bullets in your head
one black
one blue
one full of chicken poo

MrsBadger · 01/02/2007 09:20

it's weird how these go round - none of these are new to me except Hamster's...

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