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

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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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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!

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 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 something

baa baa woolly sheep? wtf?!

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

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

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

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

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

our little piggy has peas. fucking PEAS FFS.

daddies went 'snore snore snore' at mine

PEAS??!!

That doesnt even scan

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 pea

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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