Has anyone from Boston area heard this?

[clori]

My family is from Boston but I moved to NHL when I was 5. Now I live just a few miles away from Boston. I learned it as

Give me a ride to Boston
Give me a ride to Lynn
Watch out little (name)
You don't fall in

 

[MnMomtoboys]

Holy crap, so it is! What the heck!

What EROS posting didn't tip you off?

 

[xCourxCorex]

I'm 23 and remember this

My aunt sang me the "trot trot" version

 

[LindaG4458]

My grandmother used to chant the "trot trot to Boston" version when I was young in the early 50's.

 

[indimom]

Lifelong Hoosier.
Our version was:

Trot, Trot to London
Trot, Trot to Lynn
Be careful when you get there.
You don't fall in.

 

[beaucoup]

Is an 11 yr thread bump a record? I didn't even know you could search and find a thread from 2002. WOW!

 

[kaytieeldr]

Our version:

Take a ride to Boston,
Take a ride to Lynn.
Watch out baby
That you don't fall in!

 

[A_Princess'_Daddy]

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!

This is what we grew up reciting, long before we knew what it meant. My mother taught it to us!

And no, none of us ever lived in Lynn, but as teenagers we wanted to go check it out! As it turned out, its reputation far preceded its actual degree of excitement!

 

[englishteacha]

I've heard the "Boston" version but I grew up with it as "London."

 

[karenos]

Yes, my dad who was born and raised in Boston used to sing this to me when I was younger. (We grew up on the south shore of MA).

karenos

 

[phorsenuf]

Yes, my dad who was born and raised in Boston used to sing this to me when I was younger. (We grew up on the south shore of MA).

karenos

I grew up on the south shore too, in Scituate. Where were you?

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Funny you mention it. I was just looking over an MCAS sample question (title JOURNEY) and this rhyme was referenced in it. I think that those who chose the piece assumed that kids knew the rhyme but really it is not well known to the younger generation.

 

[karenos]

I grew up on the south shore too, in Scituate. Where were you?

Too funny. I lived in Scituate for 10 years until we moved to a town near Plymouth/Middleboro. It was a long time ago, I am 35+.


karenos

 

[Arielle22]

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

I knew this version and sang it to my daughters and my nephews.

 

[phorsenuf]

Too funny. I lived in Scituate for 10 years until we moved to a town near Plymouth/Middleboro. It was a long time ago, I am 35+.


karenos

No way! We lived there until 1975 or 76. Where in Scituate?

 

[karenos]

No way! We lived there until 1975 or 76. Where in Scituate?

I will PM you.
karenos

 

[goofy4tink]

Basically, the child is sitting on your legs (thighs) as you sing this. You are holding the little ones hands, bouncing them up and down.....trot, trot. Then, when you got to 'don't fall in', you pull your legs apart a bit, the baby starts to slide through, squealing happily, but you don't let them go all the way through.

 

[pyrxtc]

Yep! The version I grew up with and do with my kids is a little different though...

Have a ride to Boston
Have a ride to Lynn
Be careful when you get there
You dont fall in!

And at the fall in part you drop them between your legs(holding them of course) .

It has always been said this way in my family. I think the falling in had to do with the fact that a lot of Boston was built on top of garbage. trot is because you would have been riding a horse in.

 

[kofslinky]

The version I always got was:

Ride a ride to Boston
Ride a ride to Lynn
Watch out ::insert name here::
You don't fall in!!

It was bouncing on the knee throughout, then fall between the knees on "in"

 

[pookybean]

im from boston and sing that to my kids too. i dont use charles river just the childs name before falling in.

glad to see so many others do it too, made me smile tongiht!