What childhood song comes to your mind?

amother

Sat, Sep 09 2023, 11:10 pm

Shavua tov, shampoo and soap
We ask of you to take a shower
But pls don't take a half an hour

We have a waitress
She is the greatest
Who is she? ------

amother

Hyssop

Sat, Sep 09 2023, 11:12 pm

amother Raspberry wrote:

We used to sing this while pointing to different body parts:
CHESTer have you heard from Harry
Just came BACK from the ARM -me
I HAIR he NOSE how to wash his clothes
HIP HIP hooray for the ARM me

We sang this

yANKLE have you heard from HAIRshel
Just came BACK from the ARM me of Hashem (point up)
I HAIR he NOSE how to daven well
HIP HIP hooray for the ARM me of Hashem

amother

Electricblue

Sat, Sep 09 2023, 11:16 pm

peter peter, pumkin eater
had a wife and couldn't keep her
put her in a pumpkin shell
and there he kept her very very well

(when someone was cheating while playing a game we would chant "cheater cheater, pumpkin eater")

amother

Alyssum

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 10:27 pm

Not sure if anyone said this yet but this was the craziest song we sang.
Suffocation, retro suffocation,
That's the game we like to play.
First u take a plastic bag,
Then u put it on your head,
Got to bed, wake up dead,
Tralalalala!

Tao

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 10:49 pm

We used to sing,
"There was an old lady, who swallowed a fly,
I don't know why, she swallowed a fly,
Perhaps she'll die."

Recently my son came home and his morah had taught him
"There was an old lady who swallowed some snow,
I don't know why she swallowed some snow,
Perhaps you know?"

I had to laugh at the cleaned up version. Apparently our kids are too sensitive to hear the word die these days, lol

amother

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 10:59 pm

Crack an egg on your head
let the yolk drip down

I also remember the hand massage where you would make a fist and someone would touch your fingers and then wave their hands up and your hand would tickle

BH Yom Yom

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 11:07 pm

Tao wrote:

I happen to like this one better! The swallowing a fly version always grossed me out.

ra_mom

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 11:09 pm

Once I ran a candy store
And business was so bad
I asked my mother what to do
And this is what she said.

Take a can of gasoline
And put it by the door
Take a match and give a scratch
And no more candy store.

ra_mom

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 11:12 pm

Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack
All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
Going down her back, back, back.

She asked her mother, mother, mother
For 50 cents cents cents
To see the elephants elephants elephants
They jump so high high high
They reach the sky sky sky
They never come back back back
Until July!

amother

Hyssop

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 11:13 pm

Tao wrote:

But how does that work with the rest of the song?

...She swallowed the dog to catch the cat
How bout that? She swallowed a cat!
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
How absurd! She swallowed a bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly.
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a horse
She died, of course.

amother

Tulip

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 11:16 pm

Oh my, this thread really made me laugh!

Quote:

The farmer picks a wife
The farmer picks a wife
Hi ho the cherry o the farmer picks a wife

The wife picks something... something

The cheese stands alone
The cheese stands alone
Hi ho the cherry o the cheese stands alone
(So sad)

I remember when I was 4 years old and we played this, and when they all stood around pointing to me and yelling "the cheese stands alone", I burst out crying!

Queen Of Hearts

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 11:16 pm

amother OP wrote:

....
Let the chills run up
Let the yolk drip down
Let the chills run up

Spiders crawling everywhere
Making cobwebs
On your shoulder
2X

Next stanza too gory. Especially in light of recent tragedy...

Tao

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 11:22 pm

amother Hyssop wrote:

They didn't learn any further, lol

Tao

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 11:23 pm

ra_mom wrote:

Isn't it the 4th of July?

amother

Tulip

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 11:23 pm

Queen Of Hearts wrote:

....
Let the chills run up
Let the yolk drip down
Let the chills run up

Spiders crawling everywhere
Making cobwebs
On your shoulder
2X

Next stanza too gory. Especially in light of recent tragedy...

Doesnt it end with "....with a pinch and a squeeze and a cool ocean breeze" (and you blow on the neck)

Tao

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 11:27 pm

I rode around the corner
And I rode around the block
And I rode right in
To a bakery shop
And I asked for a donut
And I wiped off the grease
And I handed over
A five cent piece.
She looked at the nickel
And she looked at me
And she said to me
Can you plainly see
There's a hole in the nickel,
There's a hole right through!
And I said,
There's a hole in the donut too

Meanwhile I just want to know where you can buy a donut for 5 cents

Queen Of Hearts

Tue, Oct 31 2023, 11:44 pm

amother Tulip wrote:

Doesnt it end with "....with a pinch and a squeeze and a cool ocean breeze" (and you blow on the neck)

That could be but there's a stanza before
Stick a ..... in your back
Let the .... run down