Has anyone from Boston area heard this?

[Wagamama]

gemmie!!! can you please pm me the "correct" version? thanks!!!!

 

[goofy4tink]

My girlfriend's mother is from England. Her mother taught her the same words.....Boston and Lynn. Evidently, they were cities near where she lived.
Hey Jenn. Can't believe you're so close and you sing the same words to a Katie too!!!

 

[ebaynut31]

No, no. It's Choo Choo to Boston, Choo Choo to Lynn, be careful when you get there you don't fall in.

 

[kylara]

And I learned it

You wanna go to Boston?
You wanna go to Lynn?
Better watch out
or you might fall in.

 

[virtuallyme123]

trot trot to Boston to get a load of hay,
trot trot back again, its all blown away
trot trot to Boston to get a loaf of bread
trot trot back again, the baker's dead

 

[Acklander]

Yep.

Trot trot to Boston
Trot trot to Lynn
Watch out little (child's name)
That you don't fall innnnnnnn.

My 5yo still likes this, he's just getting too big!

This was ours

 

[phorsenuf]

Yup, I grew up with that one But we say:

Trot Trot To Boston
Trot Trot To Lynn
Ya betta watch out
Ya might fall innnnnn (dipping the chilg between the knees)

Yep, this is how I've always known it.

Since you say "don't fall in....", I think the only one that makes sense is the one where the river is mentioned. What else would someone be possibly falling in to??? LOL

(I'm living in MA now, but not "from here".... I should ask DH if he's ever heard this rhyme before).

I suppose being from Mass, it was a given that it was the Charles. It was definitely something you did not want to fall in to!

 

[SmallWorld71]

Yup.....still do it with my grandchildren and my new puppy (she really likes it). The version we always said was:

Trot Trot to Boston
Trot Trot to Lynn
Watch out ...."child or puppy's name"....
You might fall innnnnn

This was how we always sing it too.

We bounce the child on our knees and then when you say the last line you would pretend to have the child "fall" between your knees. (kind of lean them back then up) Older babies LOVE it.

 

[jennyjinx3]

Too funny! I grew up in Nova Scotia, and my parents always did this song/knee ride too! But it was

All go to Boston
All go to Lynn
Watch out when you get there
You might FALL IN!!!

 

[JaneBanks]

I'm from New York but I had cousins move to Boston (as adults) and when they would come home to visit they brought back this version:

:bouncing the child on your knees:
Ridey Ridey Boston
Ridey Ridey Lynn
Ridey Ridey (childs name)
But don't fall in!
: open knees and let child drop a little (while holding their hands of course):

 

[dakcp2001]

Trot troe to Boston
Trot Trot to Lynn
Better watch out or you might fall in!

I grew up hearing that!


Oh and the Lynn thing is

Lynn Lynn City of Sin
Never come out the way you went in
Ask for water and they give you gin

There is more, but you'd have to ask a Lynner!

 

[Acklander]

I just checked with my mom and our official family version was

Trot trot to Boston
Trot trot to Lynn
Trot trot to Salem
And back again

To Boston , to Boston, to Boston town
Watch out little (child name)
You don't fall down

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Yes, I remember it. (Even though this thread is like, 11 years old!)

 

[phorsenuf]

Yes, I remember it. (Even though this thread is like, 11 years old!)

Holy crap, so it is! What the heck!

 

[SmallWorld71]

Yes, I remember it. (Even though this thread is like, 11 years old!)

LOL I didn't see that.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

My BFF lives in Lynn. . .this is what she says is the whole of it.

Lynn, Lynn, city of sin,
You'll never go out the way you came in.

You ask for water, they give you gin;
the girls say no, but they always give in.

If you're not bad you'll never get in-
It's the damnest city I've ever lived in!

 

[DaisyLynn]

A thread from the dead...

This is how my family has always said it:

Ride away to Boston,
Ride away to Lynn.
Careful little Daisy,
Don't fall in!

(insert child's name where I said Daisy)

 

[CaFeeney]

So funny, I live just North of Boston and my Dad was from Lynn... we always said:
Ride a horse to Boston
Ride a horse to Lynn
watch out little baby
That you don't fall in!

And you end it with a big WHEEEEE!!!!

 

[GoldenAfternoon]

My family always sang:

Trot trot to Boston
Trot trot to Lynn
Trot trot to Salem
But don't throw me in!

 

[3boymthr]

So funny, I live just North of Boston and my Dad was from Lynn... we always said:
Ride a horse to Boston
Ride a horse to Lynn
watch out little baby
That you don't fall in!

And you end it with a big WHEEEEE!!!!

That's how we always heard it too.