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WHY does every playgroup and rhyme time have different words or tunes to nursery rhymes??

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BellaBearisWideAwake · 28/04/2011 17:54

Went to a new rhyme time and they had a new tune to Humpty Dumpty. V confusing.

And don't get me started on Row Tour Boat and all the bloody animals.

Or sleeping bloody rabbits.

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ilythia · 28/04/2011 18:08

DD2 was brought to tears the other day because I sang the wrong words to 'Cows in the kitchen, moo moo moo' or whatever it's called.

And it's sleeping bunnies

BellaBearisWideAwake · 28/04/2011 18:34

Yes of course, bunnies but are they ill or real?

DS gets really cross when the sing is not right. Chris and Pui sang that the doors on the bus go swish instead of open and shut and he was Most Put Out.

But how can there be a different tune to Humoty Dumoty? It's a classic!

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ilythia · 28/04/2011 19:23

another tune to humpty dumpty? That's just random though.

They are ill. It rhymes with 'still' DD2 insists it's real though. I whisper that bit so I can get away with saying ill and she won't hear me Hmm

Row your boat also has a verse called that goes rock, rock, rock your boat. Mine freestyle to it. Nursery don't sing it so now they won't let me.

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BellaBearisWideAwake · 28/04/2011 19:37

I like the rock rock verse. But the new rhyme time sings merrily for it whereas WE sing watch out give a shout.

They are obviously WRONG

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darleneconnor · 28/04/2011 19:45

IKWYM

I want to sing baa baa black sheep not baa baa wooly sheep

and I hate it when they do the 'mummies on the bus go chatter chatter chatter line, it's so sexist!

ilythia · 28/04/2011 19:47

what? merrily? Clearly wrong!

BUt then what about when you don't knwo the song and people look at you lie you are deprived.
I never sanmg 'peter rabbit has a fly upon his nose' and was running a playgroup when someone 'requested' it. I was Hmm and asked them to sing it for us, everyone joined in and were aghast that I had never heard it, and yet was running a playgroup.
There should be a course or somethingGrin

ilythia · 28/04/2011 19:50

baa baa woolly sheep? Hmm wtf?!

We did't do chatter chatter, we subverted with 'shh shh shh'

BellaBearisWideAwake · 28/04/2011 19:57

Yes, the daddies get to tickle tickle tickle at my playgroup. So much more fun.

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BellaBearisWideAwake · 28/04/2011 20:00

AND just remembered our library does a vegetarian version of this little piggy. He doesn't have roast beef he has a veggie burger.

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beanandspud · 28/04/2011 20:26

DS was most put out that I had never heard of 'Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar'. Apparently that's the version they sing at nursery.

sweetkitty · 28/04/2011 20:29

DD3 stands and argues with the leader at the local library Rhyme Time when she sings the wrong words to Wind the Bobbin

ilythia · 28/04/2011 20:29

our little piggy has peas. fucking PEAS FFS.

daddies went 'snore snore snore' at mine

BellaBearisWideAwake · 28/04/2011 20:33

PEAS??!!

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BellaBearisWideAwake · 28/04/2011 20:34

That doesnt even scan

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ilythia · 28/04/2011 20:37

This little piggy had some peas.

I mean really

funnily enough, dd1 would eat an entire cow's worth of roast beef happily, but never a peaGrin

BellaBearisWideAwake · 28/04/2011 20:41

That's the most random one I've come across!

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AngelDog · 28/04/2011 21:00

Oh, and the slightly different tunes are just as annoying as the different words.

Although it was bad enough the driver saying 'tickets please' - whatever happened to the poor conductor on the bus?

Daddies go 'shush, I'm reading the paper' in DH's ad lib version. Grin

PaganOfBologna · 28/04/2011 21:12

Over this way Daddies on the bus say "STOP THAT NOISE" complete with wagging finger Grin

poptyping1 · 30/04/2011 18:47

In the playgroup that I run I sing all the original versions.... I was told that I souldn't sing baa baa black sheep I just laughed

EvilTwins · 30/04/2011 18:52

I hate the bit where Humpty Dumpty counts to ten and then gets up again. I mean, FFS, that's not what happens when you drop an egg. Or indeed, a large cannon.

Lizcat · 01/05/2011 16:32

They are of course Folk tunes passed down through memory and as such as subject to chinese whisper effect. Very boring I know -FIL is folk music bore expert. As folk tune they all have basis in real historical events re-told for children ring a ring a rosies - the plague etc.
As for the Baa Baa black sheep thing DDs nursery got round by having verses about the grey sheep and the white sheep too very inclusive.

EvilTwins · 02/05/2011 14:41

Lizcat - Ring o'Roses has nothing to do with the plague - common misconception.

Counterstrike · 05/05/2011 20:44

and there's a 'baa baa multicultural sheep, have you any fairtrade cotton wool' ect ecg...."politically correct" apparantly

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