Remember any old silly verses etc you were told as a child

[convict621 10]

When people played 2 balls' I remember them singing.

PK penny a packet,

First you chew it then you crack it,

Then you stick it to your jacket,

PK penny a packet.

[JenC 10]

what i can remember of the song "the big ship sailed.." is this:-

 

"The big ship sailed on the alley-alley oh

The alley alley oh

The alley alley oh

The big ship sailed on the alley alley oh

On the last day of September.

 

The captain said it'll never ever do

Never ever do

Never ever do

The captain said it'll never ever do

On the last day of september!"

 

I remember there would be a "dance" to it, where everyone would join hands, and weave between each other, till everyone had positioned themseleves with their arms folded, (like when you sing old lang syne) and you'd shake your arms together.

 

I think there were more verses, along the lines of

 

"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 September.

 

We all dip our heads in the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea,

We all dip our heads in the deep blue sea, on the last day of September"

 

That's how I remember it going when we used to sing it at Infant school. We did the 'dance' aswell, except one person at the end of the chain would be stood holding onto the fence, and we'd weave through between that person and the fence, going under their arm.

[kezzzza 10]

Beans beans are good for your heart

The more you eat the more you f*rt

The more you f*rt the better you feel

So lets have beans for every meal

[kezzzza 10]

These are ones you would say when picking people out for group games........

 

Eeny meeny miney moe

put the baby on the poe

when its done wipe its bum

eeny meeny miney moe

out goes you

 

and............

ip dip dog s**t

you are not it

[Joto 11]

I now remember the eeny meeny miney moe one, but I don't know the others kezzzza. Do keep them coming though everybody

[DUFFEMS 55]

Our eeny meeny picking rhyme went:

 

eeny meeny miny mo,

put the baby on the po,

when it's done,

look up its' bum

to see if there's any more to come!

 

And, of course, the traditional picking rhyme:

one potato two potato three potato four,

five potato six potato seven potato more etc.

This was done with clenched fists and the picker would thump his fists with everyone else's and the fist that was "out" would be placed behind your back resulting in one last fist being the winner.

[JenC 10]

I haven't looked through the whole thread, so this has probably been mentioned, but we used to do See-see My Playmate (or Ce-Ce My Playmate as I've seen it spelt before - I don't know which is right). Our version went like this:

 

See see my playmate,

I cannot play with you,

My sister's got the flu,

Chicken pox and measles too,

Slide down the drain pipe

 

(Can't remember the rest)

 

But I was talking to someone else about it, and their version went like so:

 

See see my playmate,

Come out and play with me,

And bring your dollies three,

Climb up the appletree,

Slide down the rainbow

[Steptoad 12]

A couple more have just come to mind.

 

There's the girls French skipping rhyme,

 

Cat's got the measles, the measles, the measles, the measles,

Cat's got the measles,

The measles got the cat.

 

(Or as I heard my daughter say, "Cat's got the fling dong" what ever that might be).

 

Anther of me Ma's,

 

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to bath,

Adam and Eve both drowned,

Who do you think was saved?

 

The correct answer was rewarded with a nip.

I never understood the humour of that rhyme.

[Joto 11]

Thanks Jen I haven't seen it on here, and that's a new one to me.

Steptoad that one about Adam and Eve must have been in the archives of my brain, I do remember it now, knowing me I probably fell for it too!

[thursday 10]

And, similarly, "Pinch, punch, the first of the month: sorry, but no returns"....!

[jgharston 11]

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

(to the accompanyment of complicated clapping)

 

My great-grandmother used to sing:

I had a little pony, it's mane was dapple grey

I leant it to my Lady to ride a mile away

She whipped it, she lashed it,

She rode it through the mire

I'll never lend my pony again for all my Lady's ire.

 

And how about:

There was a crooked man

He walked a crooked mile

He found a crooked sixpence

Upon a crooked stile.

He had a crooked cat

That caught a crooked mouse

And they all lived together

In a little crooked house

[Joto 11]

Thanks igharston and I've not heard the one your great-grandma told you.