Well, you may be looney anyway, Captain. Here are the words dimly remembered by a midwesterner:
Oh little playmate, come out and play with me, and bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. Look in my rain barrel, climb down my cellar door, and we'll be jolly friends forevermore.


spook

AND I made you nervous with my TMNT knowledge???? I've never heard that song.

ok i remember every part except the rain barrel, I think we sang slid down my rainbow, but hey, I am thinking 35 yrs ago, and I lost a lot of brain cells since then, lol.

Where in the world did this come from? I have never heard this but if you are talking 35 years ago, I was a toddler so I guess I am not as old as I thought. I cannot even vaguely remember this song at all.

you won't believe it I found a website with these songs, for the Clapping game, I guess thats what it was called, I remember it was something like advanced patty cake with two people we would do and had these songs we would sing, here is the full song.

This is someone elses version. I forgot about verse 2.
Say say old playmate,
Come out and play with me,
And bring your dollies three,
Climb up my apple tree,
Slide down my rainbow,
Into my play room,
And we'll be jolly friends,
Forever more, more, shut the door, spill the candy on the floor!

Say, say oh playmate,
I cannot play with you.
My dolly has the flu,
The mumps and measles too
I can't slide down your rain barrel,
And through your cellar door.
But we'll be jolly friends,
Forever more, more, more, more, more

Of course thats not how I totally remember it and I think it goes by other people memories, but some of it rings true.

Miss Betsy had a baby its name was sister sue,
She put in in the bathtub to see what i would do
It drank up all the water, it ate up all the soap
she drank up all the water, He ate up all the soap,
she tried to eat the bathtub, but it wouldn't go down his throat
Miss Betsy called the doctor, the doctor called the nurse
the nurse called the lady with the alligator purse
Mumps said the doctor, Measles said the nurse,
chicken pox said the lady with the alligator purse,
out walked the doctor out walked the nurse out walked the lady with the alligator purse.

They have this one in other versons if you want to walk down memory lane.


chants

I am sitting here reading all this to my daughter and myself then I went to the link you gave and I have never heard of a lot of these. I don't know if they were made up (I know that's not it) or before my time (probably). I just cannot get over the words on some of this. It is adorable for kids though.

Before computers, were in most homes, TV has channel 4, 6, 8, 12 was pbs in my house, no video games, after school we were outside till dark, if I didn't have two friends available played Chinese jump rope with two chairs. Don't know what year you were born, I was born in 62'. Will be omg 46 this year, closer to 50 than 40, asked today at Ryans when the senior discount started, lol. Since hubby will be 53, found out not till 60, husband said you will be sure to ask for it won't you? I said hell yes I will, I will have my AARP card and my senior citizens discount, I want it all, lol. He wants to deny it. He doesn't want his AARP card.

I will be 54 this year. We had 3 (!!) channels to start in 1959 on an antenna but when CABLE came in 1962 it increased to 12 (and there was always something to watch). The programs started at 07:30 A.M. in the morning and went until 11:30 P.M. and then we got a test pattern and a hum all night (I remember the eagerly awaited premiere in SEPT 1960 of a new comedy show....THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW!!!).

Must be a middle-of-the midwest, or gulf coast area song.



Haven't we all lost a lotta brain cells.. I'm the same age as VDO plus 50 days.

Thanks for finding the real words, Jryan.



Maybe it's a regional thing.


spook

shoot we didn't get cable until 1970, I remember having to go outside and turn the antenna, oh and hbo, I was a teenager when we finally got that in the south. I think 15.

NOW that one I remember! I always thought the purse was SHAPED like an alligator until I got older and realized they skinned alligators to make the purse!!!



I was born in '61 and remember all of the above. Our parents didn't worry if we weren't in the yard, either, it just meant we were at the neighbors. When we finally got PBS we thought we were in heaven with Hodge Podge Lodge and Mr. Rogers. If we weren't outside playing, we were doing chores (do kids still do those), before we had any TV time. And when I tell my son that TV's used to not have remote controls and color TV was a luxury he looks at me like I'm making it up.

We'd take off on our bikes in the morning and play at various neighbor kids' houses until lunch. Then come home, eat, and take off again until dinnertime. (This was in the summer, of course - we hadda do homework first during the school year.)

I gave my little sister my allowance to do my chores. Heck, I'd STILL do that, if she lived in the same country as I do.


spook

didn't get my first video game Atari, till I was married, lol tanks and pong, lol

Well I was born in 70. Yeah I know youngin to you guys so I am 37 but I do remember having, if I remember right, 5 stations when I was a child. We had ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and FOX. Can't remember the exact numbers right off hand but those were the channels we had. I played outside a lot, had no video games. The kids today have it so easy. They don't even go out and play anymore. They have TV and video games to keep them company. Oh hubby born in 56. He is 51. Yeah everyone tells him he robbed the cradle with me but I don't care. He always gets asked about the senior discount when we go out to eat even though he isn't eligible yet but oh well what do you do.

When my son was little, I couldn't send him to his room as punishment. Between the TV and video games, it was luxury - I used to make him go to my room! And, I remember when FOX came out. I live way back in the 'suburbs' (i.e. middle of nowhere) we never got cable until 1996 in our area - late bloomers in my neck of the woods. (still having a hard time getting high speed internet)

We lived right next to the foothills and tumbleweeds would blow into our yard. Since my bike was ALWAYS a horse, my dad would tell me that the tumbleweeds were cows that had wandered out of the pasture and had to be taken back. He would tie string to the tumbleweeds so I could lead the cows back to the pasture. He always knew how to play into my "make believe". I remember so well when I was around 4 or 5 I had this imaginary friend named Bill Kiddlehopper (we watched Red Skelton in our house!). One day Bill wrote all over my bedroom walls with crayon! I explained to my dad that Bill was the one who did it, but he said that Bill was my guest and I was responsible for anything my guests did when they were visiting, so I would be punished for Bill's misdeeds. I thought it was terribly unfair back then. Today I find it terribly clever!

What great memories - your Dad sounds terrific.

Yeah, he was great. Unfortunately my mom never got the hang of the make believe thing. She would send me to clean my room and two hours later find me sitting in the middle of my bed reading--and the room still a complete mess! She would get so frustrated!

Hey LURKERS--see what you're missing? Come and share your childhood memories. And then stick around to discuss the always fascinating characters of LOCI!

Yeah I have the same problem with my son. Punishment very hard because of the TV and video game equipment in his room. We have run out of ideas on it. And the high speed internet I love. So much faster. I have had it for about a year and I can never get enough of it.

I learned that one (or a similar variant) as 'Miss Susie' and the baby's name was 'Tiny Tim' (though that wasn't the most common Miss Susie chant).

I am a midwesterner and I have never heard the first song. I am familiar with the second one, though. I think that I even saing it in kindergarten in New Mexico (they call it Kinder out there, though)

Just want to give a virtual wave to ohyesvincent, one of the board's newest members but hasn't posted yet. We don't bite, I promise. We're just a little strange.

And for the rest of you nine that lurk in the shadows I say to you "Delurk!".

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End of rant...

Our favorite went something like:

Old Lady Mack Mack Mack
All dressed in black black black
With silver buttons buttons buttons
All down her back back back

She cannot read read read
She cannot write write write
But she can smoke smoke smoke
Her father's pipe pipe pipe

and so on...

we used to sing the whole thing "Do your ears hang low..." Guess I am showing my age again...

How 'bout:
Does your chewing gum loose it's flavor on the bedpost over night?
Actually that's all I can remember of that one. i can't remember if my older sister or my mother taught me that one.

I think that it is time to DE-Lurk, lurkers! We won't bite. I promise. And we're not really as angsty as we seem.

Lurker no more, DefenderofMen. According to the title thingy under *sigh* VDO's avatar, I am a MEMBER!!! LOL LOL

congratulations.

Come out come out where ever you are.

*sings*
and meet the young lady who fell from a star. She brings us good news or haven't you heard? When she fell out of Kansas a Miracle occured.

It really was no miracle what happened was just this: The wind began to twitch, the house to pitch, and suddenly the the hinges started to unhitch. Just then, a witch, to satisfy an itch went riding on her broomstick thumbing for a hitch.

And oh what happened then was rich!

The wind began to pitch. The kitchen took a slitch and landed on the wicked witch in the middle of a ditch. Which was not a healthy situation for the wicked witch who began to twitch and was reduced to just a stitch of what was once the wicked witch.

Let the joyus news be spread the wicked old witch at last is dead!

Ding-Dong the witch is dead. Which old witch? The wicked witch! Ding-dong the witch is dead. Wake up you sleepy head. Rub your eyes, get out of bed. Wake up the wicked witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go Below - below - below Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out. Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low Let them know the Wicked Witch is dead!

We have 1 tv in our home -- in the living room, so the kids have to share and decide together what to watch, or it gets turned off. They love their bikes, so no problems there. They don't have their own computers, we have no game system like Wii, XBox, etc, or handhelds like Gameboy. My kids don't have their own cellphones, neopets, webkinz......"we're so mean" -- nope, just sticking with the decision we made early on in our marriage. The kids do get to play a lot on our home computer (1 desktop and 1 laptop) so are not totally 'out of it'. The Son has friends with gaming systems and plays some with theirs. We spend lots of family time reading, watching TV (controlled amounts), playing card and board games. (Oh, fyi -- we're considered "upper middle class" and could easily afford all the technology, just have made the decision not to....)

I was born in '68 and am considered a "Sesame Seed" since "Sesame Street" came out in October of 68. Can ya'll believe it's the longest continually running TV show outside of network news? 39 years old this year!

About the songs -- I LOVE stuff like that and teach them to my kids. "Barney" uses lots of those kinds of songs and I had fun watching Barney with my kids and teaching them the songs.

I give you a lot of credit, flashymom, for you & your husband sticking to your guns about monitering your kids intake of virtual entertainment. I know its very tough to do, especially when it isn't because of lack of funds, & I'm guessing that your kid's friends can all afford this stuff & have it.

Up until my kids went off to college, and they received basic laptops from us as High School graduation gifts to use up at school, we all shared one computer that we keep in our den area. Their friends all had their own computers in their rooms, and I could tell you sad stories about what trouble some of them got into online because they had no one monitering them.

I know this is OT, but I hate to see parents give their kids expensive cell phones, computer & gaming systems, flatscreen TV's , IPods, especially when they're young, like 10 or 11 years old. What's left for them to look forward to?

Come out come out where ever you are.

*sings*
and meet the young lady who fell from a star. She brings us good news or haven't you heard? When she fell out of Kansas a Miracle occured.

It really was no miracle what happened was just this: The wind began to twitch, the house to pitch, and suddenly the the hinges started to unhitch. Just then, a witch, to satisfy an itch went riding on her broomstick thumbing for a hitch.

And oh what happened then was rich!

The wind began to pitch. The kitchen took a slitch and landed on the wicked witch in the middle of a ditch. Which was not a healthy situation for the wicked witch who began to twitch and was reduced to just a stitch of what was once the wicked witch.

Let the joyus news be spread the wicked old witch at last is dead!

Ding-Dong the witch is dead. Which old witch? The wicked witch! Ding-dong the witch is dead. Wake up you sleepy head. Rub your eyes, get out of bed. Wake up the wicked witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go Below - below - below Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out. Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low Let them know the Wicked Witch is dead!


Don't make me burst into song again

But it's so amusing jc!

DELURK!!! Don't be afraid. Read the friendship pact. Everything is great here. We don't bite. We're not mean. I promise. Really. Please come out. Please. We want you to join. We love you. please. pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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so does begging work JC? oh wait, yes it does--that's how we got JCBuzz. . . . .

jcsavestheday said noooo biting too!!!!

yeah. We don't bite...hard.

ok--there are 13 guests---pleaseeeeee---delurk! We're really friendly people--and we don't bite!

I just wanted to talk to you a moment: Ok maybe more than a moment. I would like to talk to you about talking.... yup more like delurking...you see I was one of the worst kind of lurkers as it would seem.. I would stand behind someone while they where on the boards reading over their back. Thats like a dog just poking it eyes over the edge of the bed and staring at you, while you are trying to sleep. Anyway, It got worse you see. I got to the point I was telling them what to type....I got told "GET YOUR OWN SCREEN NAME IF YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING YA BIG LURKER." and here I am.

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............so come on... have fun! and make friends!


C U ON THE BOARDS!!!!!! AS POO SAID TTFN

Lurking is more fun, i find myself continuing to lurk even though i made a username.

But now you can post. ou'll grow out of it. Yay a delurker!

I find that I answer only what I want to. That makes me a delurker. And I am glad to see more....Thanks for the added voice. See ya on the boards.



MORE FRIENDS MORE FUN!!!!! (SOME SAY I AM OVER ENTHUSED)

TO REPEAT :

I just wanted to talk to Everyone who lurks for a moment: OK maybe more than a moment. I would like to talk to you about talking.... yup more like delurking...( you can do it ) you see I was one of the worst kind of lurkers as it would seem.. Not only was I just reading the boards. I would stand behind someone while they where on the boards reading over their back. Thats like a dog just poking it eyes over the edge of the bed and staring at you, while you are trying to sleep.... Yup real creepy when you think about it. Anyway, It got worse you see. I got to the point I was telling them what to type....I got told "GET YOUR OWN SCREEN NAME IF YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING YA BIG LURKER." and here I am.

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............so come on... have fun! and make friends!


C U ON THE BOARDS!!!!!! AS POOH SAID TTFN
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We are glad you're here!

Hi, new people!


Hey, you, lurker! Yeah, you! Why won't you come play with us? We're really friendly and our bark is SO much worse than our bite! (Which is really a nip.....) Please?

Continue lurking, these people are crazy.

Excuse me, Valley my friend - you're here with us so that makes you as crazy as the rest of us.
Lurkers - it really is a fun place and you can make some wonderful friends. Come on out and join us, please.

Yeah, were are groovey man!

Okay this is it people.. delurk or I am calling Harry Potter to make you all appear .....magically!!!!!




Cloggs

haha, well i'll admit to being crazy.