Safe cross code song

Dundhoone

help me out oh fellow oldies

Remember that 'how to cross the road 'song they taught you in primary school? the one you got a blue badge with judge from wonderly wagon on it for singing?

how did it go??

something like this methinks:
remember one, look for a safe place
two dont hurry, stop and wait,
three look all around and listen
before you cross the road
four let all the traffic pass you
five keep walking straight across now
six thats the safe cross code!!!!!

is that right?

Bard

If I recall correctly, you're correct,except for the last line, which should be something like:

"six.. KEEP WALKING! .. that's the safe cross code."

landser

almost

remember,
one, look for a safe place
two, don't hurry, stop and wait,
three look all around and listen
before you cross the road,
remember,
four, let all the traffic pass you
five, then walking straight across you
six, keep watching,
thats the safe cross code!!!!!


the next verse is somethingf like this

safe place, stop and wait
safe sound, look around
Can't remember this bit but it ends...
keep watching that's the code

rember the vid for it, all these numbers crossing th road.... because of this ad, i am alive and well today!

Tobias Greeshman

landser wrote:

rember the vid for it, all these numbers crossing th road.... because of this ad, i am alive and well today!

Yeah I remember the video for it too, at 6 or 7 I fecking hated the song and video, thought it was crap, at even 6 common sense prevailed and sorta still does (what idiot crosses the road without looking in both directions), so thats kept me alive. Maybe everyones different, Im sure other than yourself the songs helped some people.

Funny to hear the song again, I know it'll be stuck in my head for the rest of the day though.

Capt'n Midnight

did you ever see Tommy Tiernans sketch on it and comparing it to the Green Cross Code of Stop, Look, Listen ?

A safe cross code Robot of all things, - http://www.cs.tcd.ie/~okeeffmb/Safebotsite/project.html

landser

silas wrote:

Yeah I remember the video for it too, at 6 or 7 I fecking hated the song and video, thought it was crap, at even 6 common sense prevailed and sorta still does (what idiot crosses the road without looking in both directions), so thats kept me alive. Maybe everyones different, Im sure other than yourself the songs helped some people.

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I was being facetious!

if anything this ad and it's UK equivalent may have actually added to raod death and injury amongst kids. There was some evidence in the 70's to suggest that kids using these safe methids felt that they were immune from being hit! the kids thought that even an oncoming car would avoid them and not hit them if they kept walking and watching and so forth.

God, I just bored myself there!

Dundhoone

thanks all

Sure helped me stay alive all these years. Still have the badge.......might bring it out for a saturday night wander around town......

Those poor singing children......the dim feckers probably only learnt the first four lines!

Tobias Greeshman

landser wrote:

I was being facetious!

Oh ok, I thought you were serious sorry.

And as for that 70's thing, ill well fecking believe it!

Ruu_Old

i remember having a little booklet thing with the song on it and pictures, but i lost it and then couldnt remember what to do

Bard

Ruu wrote:

i remember having a little booklet thing with the song on it and pictures, but i lost it and then couldnt remember what to do

Did you immediately get knocked down by a bus after losing the booklet?

Ruu_Old

id just find some other way to cross the road, just couldnt remember the song

simu

I got a little blue badge with a dog on it the day that song was done in school. Anyone else?

Ruu_Old

why didnt i get one of those?!? *throws my booklet away in digust*

seo-ireland

simu wrote:

I got a little blue badge with a dog on it the day that song was done in school. Anyone else?

I got one of those as well but I lost it. Wasn't the dog Judge from Wanderly Wagon?

Flukey

It was:

remember,
one, look for a safe place
two, don't hurry, stop and wait,
three look all around and listen
before you cross the road,
remember,
four, let all the traffic pass you
five, then walking straight across you
six, keep watching,
that's the safe cross code!!!!!

safe place, stop and wait
safe place, stop and wait
safe ground, look around, listen for a traffic sound
if traffic's coming let it pass
until the road is clear at last
then walking straight across the road
keep watching, that's the code.

remember,
one, look for a safe place
two, don't hurry, stop and wait,
three look all around and listen
before you cross the road,
remember,
four, let all the traffic pass you
five, then walking straight across you
six, keep watching,
that's the safe cross code
that's the safe cross code
know the safe cross code
know the code!


The video for it was filmed in Kilmacud in Dublin, near O'Dwyers pub on the lower Kilmacud Road. I live near there, so I recognise it easily enough. The whole ad, with Judge, Foxy and Mr. Crow of Wanderly Wagon - which none of todays kids would know - was a great. I enjoyed it. Still, I can be a bit of a jaywalker, but I've never been hit by a car, yet!

rugbug86

okaaay, ya can be a bit TOO careful... (okay, u got me, i'm jelous that i only knew the first verse...)

Flukey

I just have a good memory and I still remember that song.

Pink Tacos

Hi I also got a badge but have since lost it. Does anyone know the guitar tabs or chords to play the song? Might be a laugh to play at a party.

445279.ie

Flukey wrote:

It was:

remember,
one, look for a safe place
two, don't hurry, stop and wait,
three look all around and listen
before you cross the road,
remember,
four, let all the traffic pass you
five, then walking straight across you
six, keep watching,
that's the safe cross code!!!!!

safe place, stop and wait
safe place, stop and wait
safe ground, look around, listen for a traffic sound
if traffic's coming let it pass
until the road is clear at last
then walking straight across the road
keep watching, that's the code.

remember,
one, look for a safe place
two, don't hurry, stop and wait,
three look all around and listen
before you cross the road,
remember,
four, let all the traffic pass you
five, then walking straight across you
six, keep watching,
that's the safe cross code
that's the safe cross code
know the safe cross code
know the code!

Thank God I'm not the only saddo to remember all the words!!!

It BeeMee

Damn, couldn't remember the "safe ground, look around" line.


And wasn't it sung by Brendan Grace?

Unpossible

And wasn't it sung by Brendan Grace?

yep

did you ever see Tommy Tiernans sketch on it and comparing it to the Green Cross Code of Stop, Look, Listen

was that tiernan? I thought it was that other fella Ed Burns

DMC

The Youtube user will not allow the video to be embedded, so shuffle along to...
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=PEssgMQ1O_k

Ruu_Old

An mhaith, DMC.

Flukey

Some of it, where the two kids are at the traffic lights, is from our Lady's Grove on the Goatstown Road. I wonder where those two "kids" are now?