School-yard Rhymes.

I remember elaborately synchronised hand clapping with up to 4 girls to the tune of:
Under the Bram Bush
Under the bram bush,
Under the sea, boom, boom, boom
True love forever, darling
True love for me.
When we get married,
We’ll have a family,
A boy for you, a girl for me,
Um tiddley um dum, cha-cha!

and I remember playing "Elastics" at home on the street as they were banned in school, you tied a hundred elastic bands together and 2 girls looped the ends of the rectangle of elastic around their ankles, players did a series of jumps and tricks to the tune of "England Ireland Scotland Wales, inside outside ON the rails", no idea where it came from but here's a link to some school yard songs. http://www.townlaneinfants.co.uk/playground_games.htm

Poutbutton wrote: »

I remember elaborately synchronised hand clapping with up to 4 girls to the tune of:
Under the Bram Bush
Under the bram bush,
Under the sea, boom, boom, boom
True love forever, darling
True love for me.
When we get married,
We’ll have a family,
A boy for you, a girl for me,
Um tiddley um dum, cha-cha!

and I remember playing "Elastics" at home on the street as they were banned in school, you tied a hundred elastic bands together and 2 girls looped the ends of the rectangle of elastic around their ankles, players did a series of jumps and tricks to the tune of "England Ireland Scotland Wales, inside outside ON the rails", no idea where it came from but here's a link to some school yard songs. http://www.townlaneinfants.co.uk/playground_games.htm

Yep did both of them but played elastics with a skipping rope tied in a loop, it got higher for each person i think


Also remember a clapping game along the lines of

'I went to a Chinese restaurant to buy a loaf of bread, bread, bread
He wrapped it up in a ten pound note and this is what he said, said, said....'


I don't remember the rest


Also another skipping game popular on my road was 'Miss a skip'

Miss a skip, take the rope,
lead before your leader
rasher, sausage, pudding and egg :pac:
high house, low house, pigsty, palace
boots, shoes slippers and clogs
solo lousy pepper

whoever had their skip when the rhyme got to pepper had to try and skip for as long as they could while the rope was turned really fast, if they didn't get past the first two lines of the rhyme, they had to turn the rope.

the words to that one were a bit mad really... had to be Irish or English with a mention of a pudding

We had "london bridge" cant remember exactly how it goes starts off with "london bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down,London bridge is falling down,falling down,falling down my fair lady". two made a bridge with their hands in the air and everyone passed under it and when the bridge "fell" one would get trapped and pushed back and forth!!!!

Miss Sue, Miss Sue,
Miss Sue from Alabama.
She's sittin in the kitchen, doin a bit of knitting,
watching the clock going
tic, toc, tic, toc bananarama
tic, toc, tic, toc bananarama
ABCDEFG, wash those cobwebs off my knee,
Awooshka, Awooshka, turn around and freeze.

C C my playmate,
Come back and play with me,
My dolly has the flu
And German Measles too.
Fly over the rainbow,
into my Alley-o
Forever more
1, 2, 3, 4.

time up, time up willy willy wanker?

Magic8 wrote: »

We had loads of them, I can only remember one - 'My mother and your mother were hanging out the clothes - my mother gave your mother a box in the nose - what. colour. was. the. blood' and whoever you landed on was out of the game or something - anyone remember that one??!

I remember that one.. we said 'my mother and your mother were washing the clothes. My mother gave your mother a punch on the nose.' Then something like 'what colour was the blood'?

Just came across this now and had to sign up to post. brought back great memories. The variations of whats already been said that I knew are:

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 the deep blue sea, sea, sea

and in the following verses sea was replaced with "chop" "knee" and "toe" eventually ending up with the song going: A sailor went to sea, chop, knee toe, to see what he could sea, chop, knee, toe etc.

In and out goes saucy bluebells, in and out goes saucy bluebells, in and out goes saucy bluebells all day long.
Tapperapperapper on her shoulders etc etc.

Also, other ones I remember are:
(someone in the middle of a circle would sing)
As I was going to Kentucky, going to a fair, I met a senorita, with flowers in her hair
She was as shaky, shaky, shaky. Shaky as can be, turn around, tip the ground and that's the end of me.

Chin, chin, chinaman sitting on a fence, tried to make a dolly out of 55 cents, he missed, he missed, he missed like this.

down by the river goes hanky panky, two fat frogs, back to backy, zoom zam zoom zam, down by the river goes old kir.................plonk

gypsy gypsy clemantine, washes her hair in turpentine............cant remember the rest, this one was a tennis ball against the wall song.

skipping songs:

under the moon, and over the starts and thats the way we get to mars....... cant remember the rest

rippo the rappo, sailors on the sea, Elvis Presley's after me, just because, i stole his guitar, he caught me by the knickers and he threw me in his car with an i - must - not - miss - a - loopio...

high, low, medium, slow, jolly, rocky, hockey, pepper

I like coffee, i like tea, i like (name) in with me, to see how old they are to day, one, two, three, etc

We're off, we're off, we're off in our motor car,
Sixty cops are after us and we don't know where we are.

We fell, we fell, we fell in our motor car,
Sixty cops are after us and we don't know where we are.

A cop around the corner, eating apple pie,
I asked him for a skinny bit,
and he kicked me in the eye,
I called for me mother,
me mother wouldn't come...
So I got a red hot poker and I stuck it up her bum!






Does anyone remember that one??

Skid X wrote: »

My friend Billy had a ten foot willy,
he showed it to the girl next door.

She thought it was a snake,
she cut it with a rake
and now it's only five feet four.



That one stuck in my head. Poor Billy!

Ha we had that one as well.
Also:
Tin Chin Chinaman went to milk a cow
Tin Chin Chinaman didn't know how
Tin Chin Chinaman pulled the wrong tit
Tin Chin Chinaman was covered in Shít!


And

Diarrhoea custard, diarrhoea pie
All mixed together with a dead dog's eye
Snots on toast, three feet thick,
All mixed together with a cup of cold sick

(we were gross)

"See-saw,marjory daw....????"

"America-Granny's knickers.
Australia-Granny's knickers.
Asia-Granny's knickers.
Africa-Granny's knickers.
Europe-Granny's knickers.
Ha ha!! YOU'RE UP Granny's knickers!!"

"Mary Ann,
Bread n' jam,
Marmalade n' treacle,
A bit for you,
A bit for me,
And a bit for all
The People!!"

"Chinese men are very fun-ny,
This is how they count their mon-ey,
Oocha,oocha,turn around and boot-ya!!"

"We won the war in 1954!!!"
(we used to march around the schoolyard shoutin out that line i dunno how many times)

And people wonder why half the country is insane. We never had a chance growing up :pac: