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School-yard Rhymes.
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I was chatting with my Mam (she's a teacher) about the rhymes that we used to use at break-time in school. Usually for skipping but sometimes for other games such as hand clapping as well.
Can remember a few, would love if other boardsies would share any rhymes they remember from school!
Orange Girls
Miss Mary Mack
Under the brown bush
Instead of 'orange girls' our version (learnt in a primary school in Clondalkin, Dublin) was 'orange balls':
Orange Balls, Orange Balls,
Here we go again,
Last one to touch the ground
Has a boyfriend.
You would hold hands and walk around in a circle. The last one to touch the ground had to stand in the middle of the circle for the next game.
My auntie taught me Under the Bram Bush (as a clapping game)
Under the bram bush
Under the tree, boom boom boom
True love for you my darling
True love for me
And when we marry
We'll have a family
A boy for you and a girl for me
Doo doodlie doo doo, doo doo0 -
Poutbutton wrote: »
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.
Ours was
"England, Ireland, Scotland, Whales,
Inside, Outside, Inside, Scales"
'Scales' was when you jumped and tried to land with both feet on top of the piece of elastic, one on each side.
I suppose 'rails' would have made more sense!
I grew up in Clondalkin, Dublin. Every area has their own versions of games and rhymes 0 -
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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??!
We had this one too. Exactly the same words
It was a counting out game to see which child would be 'on' for a game. Every child would put one foot in the circle and on every word of the rhyme a child's foot would be touched by the speaker. The last child had to answer the question 'What colour was the blood'?
If they said green, for example, the speaker would spell out G-R-E-E-N while continuing to touch each child's foot and the last foot they landed on was the child who would be on for the game.
Or if you wanted to spend really long at this the last child's foot that was touched would be out of the counting and so on and so on, until there were only two children left and then one of them would be 'on' for whatever game you wanted to play.0 -
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Professey Chin wrote: »And people wonder why half the country is insane. We never had a chance growing up :pac:
Actually playing games and singing rhymes like this is completely natural and happens all over the world. It is the folklore of children, and is very important for social, emotional, cognitive and physical development. Not to mention language development! 0 -
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Ours was
"England, Ireland, Scotland, Whales,
Inside, Outside, Inside, Scales"
'Scales' was when you jumped and tried to land with both feet on top of the piece of elastic, one on each side.
I suppose 'rails' would have made more sense!
I grew up in Clondalkin, Dublin. Every area has their own versions of games and rhymes
We played the same game with elastic but the verse was:
Jingle, jangle, centre, spangle, jingle, jangle, tread on it!
Jingle, (one foot in centre, one on the outer right)
Jangle, (one foot in the centre, one on the outer left)
Centre, (both feet inside the loop)
Spangle,(both feet outside the loop)
Jingle, (as above)
Jangle, (as above)
Tread on it! (had to land both feet on the loop)
It took three people to play. Two had the elastic around them and the third was in the middle facing one of the others.
The loop began on the floor, then ankles, knees, thighs, hips and so on. It rarely went farther than hip height as it got too difficult to tread on it!0 -
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ha ha ah the memories from reading this
we had loads of ones for elastics like England, Ireland, Scotland , Wales. We also were of the 'inside, outside, inside, scales' variety - rails would have made more sense - scales never did! Also Jelly on the plate.
Chin chin chinaman
Sitting on the fence
Trying to make a dollar
Outta fifty five cents
he missed
He missed
he missed like this.
also had a song we used to sing in where you would substitute the name and number of kids in the rhyme below for whoever you were trying to wind up, often while annoying one of the adults.
Dont let Jonny walk you home
When your tired and you want to go to bed
Last time Jonny took Mary home
They went to the fields instead
Oh they were all alone
When Mary started to moan
Now Jonny is the father or triplets
So dont let Jonny walk you home
Its quite funny now as quite dodgy for us to have been singing at 11/12 years old but sure im not quite sure we knew what we were actually singing!
we also used to have loads of 'diarrohea' songs. Theres was loads of varieties and people would compete to make them up
Diarrohea cha cha cha
Diarrohea cha cha cha
When its running through your pants
and you have no chance
Diarrohea
Diarrohea0
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