what rhymes and games did you sing and act out as a child , like the big ship sales through the alley alley o?

Question

i would find it interesting to know, what games you played as a child, and what rhymes you sang as you played, especially how they changed in different areas,

Answer 1

Climbing Jacobs Ladder in Sunday school

Answer 2

Where would I start? I remember loads. Some examples



She's got the hair like Betty Grable,

The figure Like Marlyn Munroe

The hair like Ginger Rodger

but the face I do not know......

Oh Salome, Salome..............................

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Ma mammie say that ave tae go

Wae my daddy's dinnero

Meat an tatties, stoo and steak

an a week bit currant cake

Came tae a river, couldnae get across

Paid ten bob fir an auld tin horse

Jumped oon it's back, it's bone gave a crack

Played ma fiddle 'til the boat came back

Singing - Don't be weary, tryin' be cheerin

Don't be weary 'cos we're aw gawn hame

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Mrs McGuire, she peed in the fire

The fire wis too hot, so she peed in the pot

The pot wis too wide so she peed in The Clyde

an aw the wee fishes ran up her backside



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Way in the jungle where nobody knows

a big fat mama stood a washin' her clothes

a rub a dub here and a rub a dub there

That's the way she washes her clothes

Singing .............

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A've a laddie in America,

a've a laddie in Dundee I E I E

a've a laddie in Australia

an he's coming home to marry me I E I E



First he took me tae America

Then he took me do Dundee I E I E

The he ran away and left me

wae three bonnie bairns on my knee I E I E'



Wan wis sittin' by the fireside

Wan wis sittin' on ma knee I E I E

Wan wis wailing in the corner

Cryin' Daddy, Daddy, Daddy

Come back to me I E I E



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High Jock ma Cuddie

McCuddie's ower the dyke

and if ye want McCuddie

McCuddie will gie ye a bite .....WHEW!

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I could go on an on. With regard to games, we played at 'balls' hitting a wall with two called doublers and we sang many rythmes as we played. When you got better you lifted your leg and let the ball bounce under it on to the wall. We also played 'Kick the Can' where someone kicked it as far as they could and the others ran away to hide. Chap door and run away.Statues where the first person who moved was out. The usual hide and seek, Ring a Ring o' Roses, Farmer Wants a Wife, I sent a Letter to my Love, What's the time Mr Wolf? etc etc etc











































in a wee bit currant cake

Answer 3

We played London Bridge---

London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down

London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady.



Build it up with iron bars, iron bars, iron bars

Build it up with iron bars my fair lady.



Build it up with gold and silver, gold and silver, gold and silver

Build it up with gold and silver my fair lady.



Take the key and lock her up, lock her up, lock her up

Take the key and lock her up my fair lady--------------------------------London Bridge is Falling Down" is a popular nursery rhyme that children have adored for generations. The game that accompanies this rhyme is easy and fun and can be played with children as young as two or three. To play "London Bridge is Falling Down," all you need is 5 or 6 children and the words to the rhyme.---Also we palyed farmer in the dell-----------------The farmer in the dell

The farmer in the dell

Hi-ho, the derry-o

The farmer in the dell

The farmer takes a wife

The farmer takes a wife

Hi-ho, the derry-o

The farmer takes a wife

The wife takes a child

The wife takes a child

Hi-ho, the derry-o

The wife takes a child

The child takes a nurse

The child takes a nurse

Hi-ho, the derry-o

The child takes a nurse

The nurse takes a cow

The nurse takes a cow

Hi-ho, the derry-o

The nurse takes a cow

The cow takes a dog

The cow takes a dog

Hi-ho, the derry-o

The cow takes a dog

The dog takes a cat

The dog takes a cat

Hi-ho, the derry-o

The dog takes a cat

The cat takes a rat

The cat takes a rat

Hi-ho, the derry-o

The cat takes a rat

The rat takes the cheese

The rat takes the cheese

Hi-ho, the derry-o

The rat takes the cheese

The cheese stands alone

The cheese stands alone

Hi-ho, the derry-o

The cheese stands alone -----------------------The players form a circle holding hands around one who is designated as the farmer, singing the first verse while moving around. When the verse is over they stop and the farmer makes his choice of a wife (sometimes without looking). The wife joins him in the center for her verse and so through the verses until either or the cheese or dog is selected or only one person is left to become the last character. They usually become the farmer for the next round.[1]

Answer 4

I'm a little teapot

short and stout



Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the window spout;



The Farmer's in his den



but

I really liked the big ship sailed through the alley alley oh best

because I liked the going under other peoples arms and in and outs!

Answer 5

There was some song about jump up & pick a bale of cotton. Maybe somebody else who grew up in the Southwest or the South remembers it. Other than that, there was that corny little "I'm a Little Teapot" that we sang & acted out in first grade.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Games......... hop scotch, stilts, ball in a stocking against the wall, marbles, Jacks, rounders, cannon, netball, knock down ginger, tin can ally, oranges and lemons says the bell's of saint clement's, scooby doo, may pole, that's brought back some memories lol.

Answer 8

Skinny Malikny lang legs, big bannana feet

Went tae the pictures an could'nae find a seat

Wen the picture started skinny malinky farted

Skinny malinky lang legs big bannana feet



Glasgow song about a tall skinny boy with big feet who farts in the cinema.

Answer 9

When you were picking someone to be first



We all put out our fists and said One potato, Two potato three potato four, five potato six potato more. The one Who had their hand touched on the word more was the one picked.



We used to sing Hitlers on the Western Front parlay vous, Hitlers on the Western Front Parlays Vous, Hitlers on the Western Front. now's the time to shoot the guns, inky pinky Parlay vous.



Another one for picking someone was 'Ip Skip sky blue whose it not you' The one who had the last you was saved.

Answer 10

This one we sang and jumped rope to to:



Charlie Chaplin went to France to teach the girls the hoochie-coochie dance, a heel a toe, around we go, salute to the captain curtsy to the queen touch the bottom of the submarine.

Answer 11

Whipstone, and Hide and Seek are the games I can remember playing as a child.

Answer 12

We used to play skipping in the playground, and one of the most popular songs we sang was this one.



I'll tell me ma when I go home

The boys won't leave the girls alone

They pull my hair, they steal my comb

But that's all right till I get home



She is handsome, she is pretty

She is the belle of Belfast city

She is courting one, two, three

Please, won't you tell me, who is she?



After the last line a girls name was shouted out and that girl had to be ready to jump into the rope whilst it was still turning. Or she was "out".



Beulah

Answer 13

Two balls to ....One, two, three O'leary.four, five, six O'leary. Don't know what happened after that I suppose I must have always dropped the balls before I got there.

I'd forgotten The Big ship sails completely.

Happy days!!!

Answer 14

Sorry but it's The big ship sails on the alley alley O.



The big ship sails,

On the alley, alley oh.

The alley, alley oh.

The big ship sails,

On the alley, alley oh.

On the last day of December.



The captain says,

"It will never never do,

Never never do,

Never never do."

The captain says,

"It will never never do",

On the last day of December.



The big ship sank,

To the bottom of the sea,

The bottom of the sea,

The bottom of the sea.

The big ship sank,

To the bottom of the sea,

On the last day of December.



We all dip our hands,

In the deep blue sea,

The deep blue sea,

The deep blue sea.

We all dip our hands,

In the deep blue sea,

On the last day of December.

Answer 15

PK penny a packet

first you chew it , then you crack it

then you stick it on your jacket

PK penny a packet

Werent allowed to speak with chewing gum in mouth so used to hide it behind lapel of jacket

Answer 16

Patter cake patter cake bakers man



A hunting we will go



I wrote a letter to my love

and on the way I lost it

Someone else has picked it up

and put it in their pocket.

Answer 17

Hickory Dickory dock,the mouse ran up the the clock, etc.

Answer 18

Hitler has only got one Ball

Himmler has two but very small'

Can't Remember the rest

Answer 19

favourit rhyme-



There was an old man named Michel Finnigin,

he grew wiskers on his chin agin

they grew out and then grew in agin'

poor old michel finnigin..

there was an old man name Michel Finnigin,

he grew fat and then grew thin agin'

went and died and had to begin agin

por old Michel Finnigin begin aginn

Answer 20

ring around the rosie

Answer 21

miss mary mack and (no thumbs down for this please. it was the 60's) ching chong chinaman