What playground songs did you used to sing?

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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 remember that one Mad!

I had a daughter
Lived in Majorca
I'd give her anything to keep her away
Just like a wooden pecker
Just like a wooden pecker
Thats how the story goes

This song was a great favourite at my school, made no sense at all, i guess it must have got lost in translation somewhere

Tiny - I was just about to post that one but our middle lines were

She had a pair of knickers
Just like a parachute
That's where all my money goes

One from my sons schooldays in the 80s:

What's the time, 10 to 9,
Hang your knickers on the line,
When theyre dry, bring them in,
Put them in the biscuit tin,
Eat a biscuit, eat a cake,
Eat your knickers by mistake.

Also,

Whats the one about In comes the doctor In Comes the Nurse In comes the Lady with the Alligator purse?

Racking my brains about 'when Suzie was a baby' and yep, the only lines I can remember are the infamous:-

Ha! Ha! I lost my bra! Left my knickers in my boyfriend's car!

perhaps it's best that we've forgotten what else Suzie was doing!

Think it might have been done earlier:

Oh you'll never get to heaven (oh you'll never get to heaven)
In an old old car (in an old old car)
'cos an old old car (an old old car)
Won't get that faa--aaa-ar

Oh you'll never get to heaven in an old old car cos an old old car won't get that far (someone help me I've forgotten the next line...)

and so on, but you may want to miss out the verse sung by the scouts,

"oh you'll never get to heaven with a fat Girl Guide cos a fat Girl Guide is much to wide"

(likewise a sheet of glass cos a sheet of glass will cut your...)

Will try to think of clean songs from when we went to DD1's scout camp... (as all the ones I remember were far too dodgy - knickers, sex etc)

Thre was one clean one I sort of remember, a clapping rhyme in a circle so you clapped against the hands of the person either side (that sort of triple one, slap/clap/clap your own hands), you were numbered and took it in turns to chant:

Everyone " number 1 stole the cookies from the baker's shop"
Number 1 :" Who me?"
Everyone "yes you
Number 1 "it couldn't have been"
Everyone "but it's true"

then carry on with number 2, 3 etc

Another to the tune of The Liver Birds (so very 70's!) that we used to skip to

On the mountain stands a lady
who she is i do not know
all she wants is gold and silver
all she wants is a nice young man

(then chant):

OK (name) we'll tell your mother
We saw you kissing (boy's name)
on the corner
is it true?

yes/no/yes/no....

and when they missed the skip on yes or no was the answer.

Think there was then a next verse about where did you live (house/palace/dustbin/pigsty) then how many children you had (number of skips)

tinytitch & Iklboo

My mum used to sing -

My girl's a corker
She's a New Yorker
I'd do most anything to keep her in style
She's got a pair of legs
Just like 2 boiled eggs
That's where all my money goes.

I think it's an older version of your ones.

Chamomile - for me the big ship sailed on the last day of September (but that may have been cos that's my birthday!)

Just realised i got 3/5 little angels/devils the wrong way round

3 little angels, all dressed in white (obviously )
trying to get to heaven on the end of a kite.
But the kite string was broken, down they fell
Instead of going to heaven they went to ..
2 little angels.....

the 3 little devils, all dressed in red...

anyone remember the last bit?
"Don't be mistaken, don't be misled
Instead of going to heaven,
They all went to bed!"

haven't read the whole thread, so sorry if this has already been said, but some books by Alan Ahlberg have these songs in them... "Please Mrs Butler" and others?
and somewhere on the internet there is a collection of them - it was written up on the BBC website a few years back I think...

I'm Shirley Bassey with the curly hair
I got my figure from driving a car
I got the hip, boom boom, the hip, boom boom, the leg of a star

Down by the river, down by the sea
True love for you, my baby true love for me,
We'll get married and we'll raise a family,
A boy for you, a girl for me, bum te dum dum, sexy!

That was the whole thing....makes no sense at all. Although I think I got my figure from driving a car too ;-)

Housemum: we also had another rhyme:

oh you'll never get to heaven (oh you'll never get to heaven) in a baked bean tin (in a baked bean tin)

Coz a baked bean tin's got baked beans in!

mabh: here's a bit more that I remember about Suzie:

When Suzie was a baby, a baby Suzie was and she said "waaah, waah, wah, wah wah"

When Suzie was a schoolgirl, a schoolgirl Suzie was and she said "Miss, Miss I can't do this."

When Suzie was a teenager,a teenager she was, and she said "ooh ah, I lost my bra, I left my knickers in my boyfriend's car."

I know it went on and on but it's a complete blank...guess I didn't care what happened after teenagerhood!

More inspiration:

Not last night but the night before
24 robbers came knocking at the door
As I bent down, to let them in
This is what they said to me

Spanish lady turn around
Spanish lady touch the ground
Spanish lady do the twist
Spanish lady do the splits

That was a skipping song. Weren't we a creative lot?!

oooh more...sorry!

How many times have you had it off in an English country garden?
I've had it twice and it's very very nice in an English country garden.

Maybe we weren't those innocent little creatures we thought we were!

Spanish lady is a keeper for next week when I have a long rope, as is bumper car.

ok...one more:

Jesus Christ, Superstar
Wears frilly knickers and a Playtex bra

What angels we were...honestly. My dd is suddenly looking like the biggest innocent in the world!

we had another verse on the 3 little angels one - after the angels in white and the devils in red (but before the 'don't be mistaken' were

3 little Girl Guides, all dressed in blue,
Tried to go to heaven on the end of a shoe
But the shoe lace broke and.....

and our version of 'what's the time' at primary was

what's the time
half past nine
hang your knickers on the line
when the postman comes along
hurry up and put them on.

Our girl guides tried to get to heaven on the end of a loo. They all laugh away at that one.

My fave campfire song is, Oh an Austrian went a yodelling, although for some reason here, back in the mists of time it has been changed to Ostrich which makes the song supremely surreal.

Up side down right way up i dont care if school blows up there will be no more teachers no more maths no teachera no more maths no more sitting in the out door class teacher teacher i dont carw i can see your underware is it black or is it white oh my gosh its dinomite 10 .. 9 ... 8 ... 7 .. 6 ... 5 ... 4 .. 3 .. 2 ..1.. Blast off

Been great reading through all these old ones , I remember

It's raining it's pouring the old man is snoring .
He went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't wake up in the morning

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I'm not a mum but I can't find anywhere else to ask to find out about this. At primary school in the 70s we used to sing a song in the playground that went like this:

"I've got a daughter, lives in Majorca, I'd do most anything to keep her alive.
She's got a pair of legs, just like two dolly pegs, that's where my mo-oneey go-o-oes.
Umpah-umpah, umpayah, umpayah, umpayah
Umpah-umpah, umpayah, that's where my money goes."

I can still remember the tune that goes with it too but I can't remember if there were anymore verses. I have never heard of this since and I've googled it and found nothing. It was an older girl that taught it to us so I think it might be people who were kids in the 60s who'd remember it. I'd love to know if anyone else remembers it....or if I'm just going mad!!

I've got a good memory for songs so I'm hoping this will spark someone else's memory!

Thanks

Did all the early ones when I was at school.

My school does some playground songs as part of a choir/concert event with other schools. They do:

Here comes Sally
John Kanaka
Concentration

Amongst some others from the Sing Up website. The above include hand clapping, singing in a round, skipping down an aisle made of children, etc.

Oh I remember another one, it went:

Who stole the cookie from the cookery store?
Number one stole the cookie from the cookery store.
Who, me? Yes you.
Couldn't be! Then who?
Number two stole the cookie from the cookery store.
Who, me? Yes you.
Couldn't be! Then who?
Number three stole the cookie....etc ad infinitum.....!