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

Also one that starts:

Fle Fle
Fle fly Fle fly
Fle fly flo oo Fle fly flo oo
Vista Vista

The rest I know but have no idea how to spell - not rude and no teachers gettin blown up etc tho

none, was too busy playing kiss chase!

OMG DS came home from school last week singing "My uncle Billy...." But he kept laughing and wouldn't sing anymore because I would tell him off. He's 6! Just you wait until the morning!

slubber - I was a 70s child too

Under the brambush
Under the sea bom bom bom
Johnnie killed the cat
And he blamed it on to me me me

There was more but I cna't remember.

Also

CC my granny
I cannot play with you
My sister's got the flu
Since 1972.....

All said to tune of clappinghands. That really is a sign of the times that one - 1972........... hmmmm

What about

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

And then the verses continued with different parts of the body like "knee knee knee" etc.

Another clapping song and that could be good for brownies i think

If we have to be nice, how about Alice the Cammel? Not sure if you can still link arms and bump bums though, health and saftey and all that.

Pink Pyjamas? Little lump of tin? This little light of mine? Adelweis?
Thinking back to my Brownie days.... yellow tie, brown dress with pockets full of god know what but they were always bulging. But why oh why did we have the bobble hat?

My cousin Susan taught me this one when I was about 7 and she was 9. I've never met anyone else who knew it:

Hello Auntie Mary
Is your daughter very hairy
Round the old (sniff sniff)jam roll?

Go away you dirtysucker
Cos I know you want to fuck her
Round the old (sniff sniff) jam roll.

But perhaps not for Rainbows.

That sounds like an old soldiers song from WW2!

Olly olly olly
tits in the trolley
balls in the biscuit tin
sitting on the grass
with your finger up your ass
singin olly olly ollu
all the day

or

kermit the frog
got smacked in the gob
for messing around with miss piggy
he undid a zip
out popped her tit
and so did
his little green willy

or

in the jungle with george and bungle
zippys having fun
geoffreys swimming with all the woman
and you can see his bum
don't be silly
cos its his willy
da da da de da

probably not right for rainbows mind lol

Heh, lots of memories come flooding back..

Fatty and SKinny were in the bath
Fatty blew off
And skinny laughed.

Cici, my baby
I cannot play with you
BEcause I've got the flu,
Chicken pox and measles too
SLide down the drainpipes
Slide down the banisters
We'll be the best of friends
For ever more, more - shut that door! (probably some obscure reference to Larry Grayson..)

Ipper Dipper Dation,
My operation
How many people at the station?

We sang a second verse to 'shine your buttons' thus:

My dad is a lavatory cleaner
he spends all day down the pit
And when he gets home in the evening
he smells like a bucket of shi-ne your buttons with brasso!

Green and yellow
Green and yellow
Oh mother do be quick
Cos I wanna be sick
and I wanna lay down and die.

I loved reading all these, you start reading, then I'm singing the rest without reading down, as it comes flooding back!

Our favourite was the spanish lady,

Another skipping one is really short so you can keep starting over, as the idea is to get as many friends in the line as possible. 2 turn the long rope and one girl is in the middle skipping,
starts...

salt pepper vinegar tea
I want ..Alison..( ie: friends name)
in with me
(they run in and join in skipping)

then 'Alison' would say the same rhyme adding her friend in

You hated being last out of 10 or so as the rope is alot higher at each end, and noone would let you in the middle of the rope so you were then the one who usually stopped it, to the sound of all girls disappointed moans!

Clapping one,
again in a long line,
one girl starts with the partner and then moves along the line of friends, or you can do it in a big circle.

You put alternate hands up and down, twice (clapping then with your friends hands) then together (clap forwards) with your opposite, then clap on your own, then keep repeating. Sounds confusing but I'm sure you know what I mean!! hope!!

singing, who stole the cookies from the bakery shop?

Move to next girl, or just sing if in a big circle, having all been given the number,
continue singing...
Number 1 stole the cookies from the bakery shop,
(who answers) ' who me?'
(everyone says) 'yes you'
(girl answers) 'couldn't have been'
(everyone says) 'then who?'
(girls answers) 'number 2 stole the cookies from the bakery shop'
(girl 2 answers) 'who me?'
(everyone says) 'yes you'
and so on...
till the last one, and she says
' could have been.....'
(everyone shouts ) 'then it was you!'

really enjoyed this at the time, but typing it now, its probably really boring to kids of today!!

So glad others remember the classic 'ooh, arr, I've lost my bra' Susie song. Lots of skipping songs I've forgotten but we did do
Bumper car, bumper car number 49
Coming round the cooooooorner
......comes into line (the name of whoever jumps in to skip)

Also a hiding the ball game - hide a ball somewhere in your uniform etc and sing

Queenie - eye, queenie eye, whose got the ball -ee eye.

I recently remembered the Farmer and his Wife one - we used to play it at birthday parties. The children choose a "Farmer" - then the others hold hands and dance round in a circle. Here's a link to the words:

www.landofnurseryrhymes.co.uk/htm_pages/midi%20-%20The%20Farmers%20In%20His%20Den.htm

Strangely, during the last verse, the "Bone" is in the middle of the circle, and the other children dance round, patting him or her on the head.

Slubberdegullion email me at [email protected] and I will send you a guide, brownie, ranger camp fire song book that has 22 pages of all the songs you need. ( I can't find a link to it on the net but will send an attachment)

It is brilliant, I found it when looking to refresh my memory of all the songs I used to sing and clap, as I was taking guides to camp.

Georgie Best
Super star
Walks lie a nanny goat
and wears a bra
Bras to big
Wears a wig
And thats why we call him a sexy pig

(This was sung to George Best on telly in Ireland and he was VERY impressed)

Build a bonfire
Build a bonfire
Put the teacher on the top
Put the homework in hte middle
and burn the lot

* = Expletive of choice depending on age

WOW Look at this thread! I might ask mnhq if it can be moved into another subject so it won't be deleted. I've really enjoyed reading everyone's songs, although a fair old wodge of them are far too rude for my delicate Rainbows.

Last night we did:

Ip, dip ,sky blue (clean version)
Oranges and lemons
A sailor went to sea sea sea - they were seriously PANTS at clapping.
French skipping with England , Ireland etc (this was a HUGE hit and dd1 went to school today with her elastics, I saw another girls had made her own and had them out in the playground - maybe we have reignited a 'lastics craze )
The spagetti song.

Next week I will have found a giant skipping rope to do some more of the proper skipping songs.

cookielove, wheresclare and roadha we do all your songs at campfire. It seems that the old Guide songs never die out, I rememebered them like it was yesterday when I sang them again for the first time

alibubbles I will e-mail you. Thank you.

slub have emailed you

Slubberdegullion - Please let me know some more french skipping songs as I have vowed when dd is old enough I will be teaching her french skipping (she is 4 in a few weeks). The england, Ireland song and Big Ben Stikes 10 are the only ones I can remember.

Thanks

Only skimmed the thread so sorry if already posted but I remember this one:

The big ship sails,
On the alley, alley oh.
The alley, alley oh.
The big ship sails,
On the alley, alley oh.
On the last day of December.

The captain says,
"It will never never do,
Never never do,
Never never do."
The captain says,
"It will never never do",
On the last day of December.

The big ship sank,
To the bottom of the sea,
The bottom of the sea,
The bottom of the sea.
The big ship sank,
To the bottom of the sea,
On the last day of December.

Have we had (another skipping song with actions):

Not last night but the night before
Twenty four robbers came a knocking at the door
I came downstairs for them to see
And this is what they said to me:
Spanish Lady turn right round
Spanish Lady touch the ground
Spanish Lady do the high kicks
Spanish Lady do the splits

ending up doing the splits over the rope

skipping songs and chants

This brings back memories.....

All in together, girls.
How do you like the weather, girls?
January, February, March, April . . .

Can't remember if we've had this one and apologies for phonetic spelling but we never wrote it down... one for bouncing a ball against a wall:

1, 2, 3 Alaira
4, 5, 6 Alaira
7, 8, 9 Alaira
10 Alaira catch the ball.

oooooh

All in together girls
How do like the weather girls

(although you had to say it)

howdya like the weather girls - to keep the cadence going

[warm fuzzy reminiscences]

We did a variant of this in school:

eeny meeny macka racka
rara acka dominacka
chicka popa
lollipoppa
Om pom push

My children looked at me as if I was crazy when I asked if this song was still sung.

I'm not suprised Mad