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What playground songs did you used to sing?

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Slubberdegullion · 07/10/2009 15:41

My mind has gone blank. What did we used to sing in the playground? I'm pretty sure I sang something.

I'm doing a 100 yesr of memories thing/badge with Rainbows (to tie in with the centenary obv) and one of the activities is teaching them playground songs of yore.

So I have all the old ones (oranges and lemons, london bridge etc) which I NEVER sang and would like to teach them something from my era 1970-80s.

Anything with actions would be superb.

tvm

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GibbonWithAnAppleBobbingBibOn · 07/10/2009 16:11

gosh this thread has excited me hasn't it

izzybiz · 07/10/2009 16:11

Ours was different again!

I went to a chinese restaurant,
to buy a loaf of bread bread bread,
he wrapped it up in a £5 note,
and this is what he said said said.

My name is Elvis Presley,
girls are sexy,
sitting in the back seat, nudge nudge,
bow to the king, curtsey to the queen,
show your knickers to the football team!!

OmicronPersei8yourbrain · 07/10/2009 16:12

Clapping with a friend (the up down and then hands flat in front type):

A sailor went to sea sea sea
To see what he could see
And all that he could see see see
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea

There was more - a sailor went to knee knee knee? Chop chop chop?

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Slubberdegullion · 07/10/2009 16:13

More underpants

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MachinesAreGo · 07/10/2009 16:14

Erm
Ip dip, dog sht Fcking b*stard, silly git,
You are not it.

((Did I go to a rough school then?))

One potato, two potato...

I'm a little bumper car, number 48.
I whizzed round the corner... (skipping song, involving running out and back in again)
and slammed on the brakes....

I'm Popeye the sailor man
I live in a caravan
I sleep with my Granny
And hang on her f*nny
I'm Popeye the sailor man.

Ooh, ahh, lost my bra
Left my knickers in my boyfriend's car...

It does seem that many playground songs are not really suitable...

OscarByTheSea · 07/10/2009 16:14

Make friends, make friends
never, never break friends
and if you do
I'll flush you down the loo
and that will be
the end of you

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Slubberdegullion · 07/10/2009 16:15

Thank you Omicron.

perfecto

knee knee knee
toe toe toe
something something something

yup can do that one.

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Pumpkinbummum · 07/10/2009 16:16

Slubber I did a thread on this at the start of the year will search, mine was for dd1s homework, might get you some more that aren't listed

Chickenshavenolips · 07/10/2009 16:18

My son has just gleefully told me this one:

On top of a mountain
All covered with sand
I shot my poor teacher
With an elastic band
I shot her with pleasure
I shot her with pride
I could not forget her
She was sixty foot wide
I went to her funeral
And stood by her grave
Instead of throwing flowers
I threw hand grenades
The other teachers saw me
They thought I was cruel
So i got my bazooka
And blew up the school

Apparently, it's all the rage in year 6

GibbonWithAnAppleBobbingBibOn · 07/10/2009 16:19

oh yes...

make up, make up
never do it again
If you do you'll get the cane
punch and judy got the cane
for riding on the choo choo train

all said in linked tiny finger handshake stylee

Rossco · 07/10/2009 16:19

Under the bramble bushes down by the sea
Boom boom boom
True love for you my darling, true love for me.

Then we'll get married and have a family
And we'll go under the bramble bushes down by the sea
Boom, boom, boom, boom.

This was sung as part of a clapping game. I'm not sure I've remembered all the words but that's the bit I can remember .

I'm a guider too and know loads of campfire songs but you're sure to know those too

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Slubberdegullion · 07/10/2009 16:20

Thanks Pumpkin.

lolol at Chicken's ds's one, sadly possibly a wee bit on the violent side. No underwear references though.

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howtowinhimround · 07/10/2009 16:21

When Susie was a teenager
A teenager she was and she went
Ooh Aah I lost my bra
I don't know where my knickers are

..........until some naughty girls came along and changed it to:

When Susie was a teenager
A teenager she was and she went
Ooh Aah I lost my bra
I left my knickers in my boyfriend's car!

I went home aged 8 and sang this to my Mum and Dad, having absolutely no idea what I was on about. They were

Pumpkinbummum · 07/10/2009 16:21

must have put it in chat, because I can't find it

Rossco · 07/10/2009 16:23

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Through your teacher over board
And listen to her scream.

Is one or we sang:

We go up, we go 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 the teacher shouts and shouts
Tie her up and knock her out
If this does not shut her up
Dynamite will blow her up.

Where on earth did we learn these songs?!

OscarByTheSea · 07/10/2009 16:24

Heh! howtowin

MachinesAreGo · 07/10/2009 16:24

To the same tune as chickenshave rhyme...

On top of spagetti
all covered in cheese
I lost my poor meatball
when somebody sneezed.
It rolled off the table
and on to the floor
and then my poor meatball
rolled out of the door.
It rolled down the garden
and under a bush
and then my poor meatball
was nothing but mush.
One hundred years later
a meatball tree grew
and now my poor meatball
is back in the stew.

It might make no sense, but it is clean

Chickenshavenolips · 07/10/2009 16:24

An awful lot of these songs involve the torture of teachers....

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Slubberdegullion · 07/10/2009 16:25

ghaa it's all pants, violence and sex.
I can cobble together some of the chinese restaurant ones for a clean version, and a sailor went to sea sea sea. Oh and the nice ip dip.

May have to do oranges and lemons twice to fill out the hour.

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Slubberdegullion · 07/10/2009 16:26

Meatball song is IN - hurrah.

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GibbonWithAnAppleBobbingBibOn · 07/10/2009 16:29

Please mr crocodile? What's the time Mr Wolf? though these were games

I am racking my brain for clean/non violent ones. Not having much luck, which is rather disturbing tbh.

KurriKurri · 07/10/2009 16:31

Daisy, Daisy
The coppers are after you
If they catch you,
They'll give you a year or two.
They'll tie you up with wire,
And throw you in the fire,
So ring your bell
And pedal like hell
on a bicycle made for two.

A 'naughty' boy taught me this when I was about 6 in the 1960's (shows age), I remember thinking he was so cool for saying 'hell'

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Slubberdegullion · 07/10/2009 16:32

Mr Wolf standby favorite already thanks Gibbon.

Did the meatball one have actions?

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Tortington · 07/10/2009 16:32

clap hands song v. fast

si si my bonny
i can not play with you
my sisters got the flu
since 1972
slie down teh drainpipe
open the cellar door

and we'll be best friends
forever more
forever more
bum bum

choppychopster · 07/10/2009 16:32

just remembered something awful I used to sing in the playground with my friends aged about ten...

We are the tiger girls
we wear our hair in curls
we wear our dungarees
up to our sexy knees
we do not smoke or drink
that's what our parents think
and when it comes to boys
we treat them just like toys
ta ra ra bom de ay
it happened yesterday
it was the boy next door
i had him on the floor
he counted up to three
and stuck it into me
her counted up to ten
and pulled it out again
my momma was surprised
to see my belly rise
my daddy jumped for joy
it was a baby boy

Probably not one to share with Rainbows.

Will try to think of something cleaner.