What playground songs did you used to sing?

[Slubberdegullion]

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

I can remember singing a lot of these in my brownie days! We used to sing -

Oh you'll never go to heaven
(repeat)
In my mums car (repeat)
Cos my mums car (rpt)
Won't get that far...
Oh you'll never go to heaven in my mums car
cos my mums car won't get that far
I ain't gonna grieve-i-eve-i-eve
My lord no mor-or-ore
I ain't gonna grieve I ain't gonna worry
I ain't gonna leave this place in a hurry
I ain't gonna grieve-i-eve-i-eve
My lord no more.

Loads of different verses, eg in your mums bra/won't stretch that far etc etc

Fairly clean and inoffensive!

Also standard stuff like 10 green bottles, Alice the camel/Boris the spider, Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, Animal fair, oh god so many songs I still love singing! Good luck with your project!

My old mans a dustman
he wears a dustmans hat
he took me round the corner
to watch a football match

Fatty passed to skinny
Skinny passed it back
Fatty did a rotten shot
and knocked the goaly flat

Oh

Where was the goally when the ball was in the net?
Half way up the goal post with his knickers round his neck
They lay him on a stretcher
They lay him on a bed
They rubbed his belly
with a lump of jelly
and this is what he said

Mary had a little lamb she thought it rather silly
she chucked it up in the air and caught it by the
Willy was a watch dog stading in the grass
along came a bumble bee and stuncg him up the

Ask no questions tell no lies
ever seen a police man doing up his

flies are a nucence bees are worse and
this is the end of my silly little verse.

We had loads of different things that we added in to the last part but I can't remember any more than these.

A couple from DH who is Scottish (excuse attempt at Scottish-type spelling)

Our wee school's a nice wee school
its made from bricks and plister
the ony thing thats wrong wi it's
the baldy heeded mister.
he goes to the shops on Saturday,
He goes to the shops on Sunday,
To pray to God to give him strength
To belt the wains on Monday

Katie Bairdy's wooden leg
kicked the bairns oot the bed
all the fleas ran up her leg
dance Katie Bairdy.

Completely useless for your rainbows I imagine, but he wanted to join in.

Playground sort of jumping game:

Cat's got the measles
Duck's got the flu
Chicken's got the chicken pox
And so have you
(actually though I always thought it was duck, it may well have been dog )

there were more.... but can't remember them...

not playground but a Guide one from the dark ages (or do they still sing this? presumably not with Elvis Presley which was already pretty dated in my day)

they say when you go camping
the food is mighty fine
a bun rolled off the table
and killed a pal of mine
Oh I don't want to go to Guide camp now
I don't want to go
But they will make me go
I just want to go ho-o-ome

they say when you go camping
the tea is mighty fine
it looks like dirty water
and tastes like turpentine
Oh I don't want to go (etc)

they say when you go camping
the boys are mighty fine
you ask for Elvis Presley
you get Frankenstein
Oh I don't want to go (etc)

they say when you go camping
the beds are mighty fine
but how the heck do they know
they've never slept in mine
Oh I don't want to go (etc)

corkys - yes we still do Oh you'll never get to heaven although I've not heard desertgirl's camping song before.

Oh if only I could say knickers, or the badly headed Scottish one.

sniggering away to Mary and her lamb here

Kurri Kurri's dh's Katie Bairdie had (at least) another verse:

Katie Bairdie had a coo
black and white about the mou'
wisnae that a dainty coo
dance Katie Bairdie

think she had a hen as well.

School bus trip (or any bus trip involving kids)

the back of the bus are in the huff
parlez vous
the back of the bus are in the huff
parlez vous
the back of the bus are in the huff
cos they cannae sing like us
inkie pinkie parlez vous

while the back of the bus sing the same but about the front of the bus

and:

Stop the bus I need a wee wee
stop the bus I need a wee wee
Stop the bus I need a wee wee
A wee wee poke o' chips

(poke is a bag btw)

another old camping one:

once a Girl Guide went to camp, went to camp
went to bed without a lamp, without a lamp
and found a beetle sitting on her bed
this is what the Girl Guide said, Girl Guide said
Beetle Beetle go away, go away
I'm so sorry you can't stay, you can't stay
but you heard what the Captain said
no two people in one bed, in one bed.

Slubberdegullion the England Ireland Scotland Wales song we sang to a french skipping game

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dilemma, the chicken in the air one was from spitting image - homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricss/spitting.html

suppose you can't do girl/boy ones with Rainbows either:

A and B up a tree
K I S S I N G
first in love and then in marriage
then a baby in a carriage

or

A big ship was leaving Bombay
To sail, sail far away
A was standing with tears in her eyes
B was holding her hand as she cried
Singing darling I love you I do
To be honest and faithful and true
He bent down to kiss her and he didn't miss her
Singing darling I love you I do

usually accompanied by sounds of disgust as well as indignant denials from A and/or B.

wow desertgirl you are on a roll here

sorry not a very useful roll - nice little nostalgia trip though; thanks!

Cat's got the measles is nice and clean though...now all I need is a skipping rope.

Ooooh dilemma I'd forgotten the worms one.... Yay nostalgia trip!

Oh Dear What can the maater be?
Three old ladies stuck in the lavatory
They've been there from Monday to Saturday
Nobody knew they were there.

They wanted to go to tea with the vicar
They went in together they thought it was quicker
The latch on the door was a bit of a sticker
So the vicar had tea on his own!

LOL CheeseAlarm.

I can absolutely use that one.

what about

my bonnie lies over the ocean,
my bonnie lies over the sea,
my bonie lies over the ocean...so bring back my bonnie to me..to me

or

kookaburagh sits in the ol' gum tree. Sorry can't remember more of the words.

Although you alreday probably do this

Ooh, and do you remember:

VERSE:
There was mum, mum,
with a stinky bum*
in the stores, in the stores,
There was mum, mum,
with a stinky bum
in the quarter master's stores

Chorus:
My eyes are blind I cannot see
I have not bought my specs with me
I have not bought my specs with me

*any person and silly activity that rhymes
ie. Dad, Dad, being rather glad
or. Claire, Claire, eating a rotten pear

That darn song was song for hours one family holiday to the Isle of Wight when we missed the last bus and had to walk across the headlands to get home. Prob not that far but felt like miles when I was little!

Daisy Daisy give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
I havent got a condom
A plastic bag will do
Coz you will look sweet under the sheets with me on top of you!

anyone else sing:
Here's Maggie Thatcher
Throw her up & catch her
Squishy Squashy Squishy Squashy
Poor Maggie Thatcher

We also sang

There was an old woman of hundred and two
Parlez Vous
There was an old woman of hundred and two
Parlez Vous
There was an old woman of hundred and two
Had a fart an out it flew
inky pinky parlez vous

The Fart went rolling down the street
parlez vous
The fart went rolling down the street
parlez vous
The fart went rolling down the street
knocked a Copper off his feet
Inky pinky parlez vous

it had quite a lot of verses...

This thread is bringing back memories. Oh the inappropriate things we used to sing.

I lost my arm in the army
I lost my leg in the navy
I lost my cock in the buthers shop
and found it in my gravy!

circle song

I gotta a daughter
she comes from majorca
and I give anything to keep her at home
she's got two lovely eyes
just like to custard pies
and thats where my money goes

and a skipping song

not last night but the night before
24 robbers came knocking at my door
as I went out to let them in this is what they said:
Spanish lady do the splits,
spainish lady do the the twist
spanish lady turnaround and
spanish lady touch the ground

Oh, I'm a little Dutchman, little Dutchman, little Dutchman
Oh, I'm a little Dutchman
From Holland I come

Oh, see my baggy trousers, baggy trousers, baggy trousers
Oh, see my baggy trousers
From Holland they come.

(You would do hand clapping and pretend that you were showing off said baggy trousers, clogs etc)

3, 6, 9
The goose drank wine
The monkey chewed tobacco on the street car line
The line broke
The monkey got choked
And they all went to Heaven in a little row boat
CLAP CLAP

screamingskull - I think the Kookaburra songs words were-
Kookaburra sits in the old Gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life may be

Scottish ones:

Not last night but the night before
3 wee monkesy came to my door
One with a fiddle;
One with a drum;
And one with a pancake tied to his bum.
(or tum as I taught my daughter!)

and

Skinny Malinky longlegs
Big banana feet
Went tae the pictures but couldnae find a seat
When the pictures started
Skinny Malinky farted
Skinny Malinky longlegs
Big banana feet.

And

Cats got the measles; the measles; the measles;
Cat's got the measles. The measles got the cats.
(All the time jumping and crossing legs in front and legs in back)

And

Down in the valley where the green grass goes
There's across the street.

And

See see my baby
I cannot play with you
Beacuse I've got the flu
Chicken pox and measles too.

Climb up the drainpipe
Slide down the bannister
I'll be you lover boy
For ever more; more; ever more.

Lord - you would never imagine I used to be a touch typist! Apologies for the typos.

We did when Susie was a teenager also
and we did Ip did dog shit

I also remember "Orange Balls" but can't remember how the game worked.

My dd's playground games are much nicer and cleaner than anything we did.