Holy cow! jump rope songs have come along way since I was a kid!

[barkley]

down, down baby,
down by the roller coaster,
sweet, sweet baby,
down by the roller coaster,
shimmy, shimmy cocoa puff,
shimmy, shimmy yeah...

and

apple on a stick, makes me sick,
makes my stomach do the "246",
not because it's clean,
not because it's dirty,
cuz it makes the boys kiss the girls on the back of the magazine.
boys, boys, always fight-here comes (insert a boy's name) with his girdle on tight...

and

my mother, your mother live across the street
18/19 alligator street.
everynight they have a fight and this is what they say
"boys are rotten made of dirty cotton, girls are handy made of sugar candy",
icka-bicka soda cracker, icka-bicka boo, icka-bicka soda cracker out goes you...

these are all circa mid 60's when i was in elementary school.

i also remember during presidential election years-

vote vote vote for (insert candidates name) her comes (other candidates name) at the door, he's the one we shout all about so we don't need (first candidates name) anymore...


god the things we still remember

 

[cepmom]

Here is one from when I was a kid

"down by the river where the green grass grows there sat ________ pretty as a rose, along came _______, kissed her on the cheek, how many kisses did she get that week?"[count]


Well, here is what my 7yo 2nd grader was belting out in the car today...I don't think she has any idea of what she is singing, it still is a bit much. What happen to husband????

"Fudge,fudge, call a judge! _______ is having a baby, her boyfriend's going crazy! How many babies did she have?"[count]

I heard my DD8 singing that recently and I just about fell over!! I tried like heck to think of another jump rope song for her to sing instead, but couldn't remember any. Not cool

 

[Amphigorey]

Cinderella dressed in yella
went upstairs to kiss a fella
made a mistake and kissed a snake
how many doctors did it take? (count)

As for today's version they sure have come a long way

Are you kidding? That Cinderella rhyme is naughty !
The snake is a "trouser snake," and she needs doctors because she caught VD from kissing said snake.

 

[agotta]

my mother, your mother live across the street
18/19 alligator street.
everynight they have a fight and this is what they say
"boys are rotten made of dirty cotton, girls are handy made of sugar candy",
icka-bicka soda cracker, icka-bicka boo, icka-bicka soda cracker out goes you...

OMG, I remember that one (and many of the others). How about...

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack,
All dressed in black, black, black,
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons,
All down her back, back, back
She asked her mother, mother, mother,
For fifty cents, cents, cents,
To see the elephant, elephant, elephant.
Jump over the fence, fence, fence.
He jumped so high, high, high,
He reached the sky, sky, sky,
And he never came back, back, back,
‘Till the end of July, ‘ly, ‘ly.

 

[megan4777]

There's the miss suzy had a steamboat one, too.
Miss Suzy had a steamboat
the steamboat had a bell
the steamboat went to heaven
miss suzy went to
hell-o operator _______ nine (I can't remember that part)
and if you disconect me
I'll chop off your
behind the fridgerator there was a piece of glass
miss suzy sat upon it and
cut her little
ask me no more questions
tell me no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom
zipping up their flies..

of course I haven't sang that for probably almost 20 yrs so I don't remember it all..
It was on teh simpson's the other night, though.

 

[agotta]

There's the miss suzy had a steamboat one, too.
Miss Suzy had a steamboat
the steamboat had a bell
the steamboat went to heaven
miss suzy went to
hell-o operator _______ nine (I can't remember that part) give me
and if you disconect me
I'll chop off your
behind the fridgerator there was a piece of glass
miss suzy sat upon it and
cut her little
ask me no more questions
tell me no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom
zipping up their flies..

of course I haven't sang that for probably almost 20 yrs so I don't remember it all..
It was on teh simpson's the other night, though.

are in the city,
the bees are in the park
Miss Suzy and her boyfriend
are sitting in the D A R K DARK!

How funny that we all remember these!

 

[Sparx]

There's the miss suzy had a steamboat one, too.
Miss Suzy had a steamboat
the steamboat had a bell
the steamboat went to heaven
miss suzy went to
hell-o operator _______ nine (I can't remember that part)
and if you disconect me
I'll chop off your
behind the fridgerator there was a piece of glass
miss suzy sat upon it and
cut her little
ask me no more questions
tell me no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom
zipping up their flies


of course I haven't sang that for probably almost 20 yrs so I don't remember it all..
It was on teh simpson's the other night, though.

Oh! I remember that one. But mine was different.

Miss Suzy had a steamboat
the steamboat had a bell
the steamboat went to heaven
miss suzy went to
hell-o operator give me number nine
and if you disconect me
I'll kick you in your
behind the fridgerator there was a piece of glass
miss suzy sat upon it and
it cut her
ask me no more questions
tell me no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom
zipping up their flies
are in the city,
the bees are in the park
Miss Suzy and her boyfriend
are sitting in the D-A-R-K
DARK!

 

[inthemood]

Our version was

Say Say oh playmate
come out and play with me
and bring your dollies three
climb up my apple tree
slide down the rain barrell
into the cellar door
and we'll be jolly friends
forever more, more, more, more...

but cece couldn't come out to play
it was a rainy day
with tears in her eyes ,
she began to cry, and this is what she said..
so sorry playmate
I can not play with you
my dolly has the flu
boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
can't slide down your rain barrell
into your cellar door,
but we'll be jolly friends
forever more, more, more, more

 

[belle_of_the_ball]

I remember it as

fudge, fudge, call the judge
Momma's got a newborn baby
wrap him up iin tissue paper
send him down the elevator
first floor STOP (turners stop turning)
second floor DOWN (jumper goes down)
third floor turn around
fourth floor touch the ground
fifth floor get out of town
(next person gets a turn)

Oh gosh, it's been almost thirty years! Let's just say I did a LOT of jump roping as a kid.

Suzanne

i did it

fudge fudge tell the judge
mommas having a baby
wrap it up in toilit paper send it down the elevator
whats it gonna be
a boy
a girl
twins
triplets
cont. counting


how funny how things can get changed and yet no matter how old or where we are...they are similar!

(cinderella dressed in yella was my favorite!

 

[SetzKitten]

Wow, this brings back memories!! Do you remember this?

Engine, engine number nine
Going down the Chicago line
If the train falls off the tracks
Do you want your money back?

 

[caitycaity]

I went to catholic school in the mid eighties and we used to jump rope in the yard. We always sang Fudge, Fudge call the judge .___ having a baby. Etc. We never thought anything of it and the nuns never cared either.

not a catholic - but we did that rhyme too and never thought anything of it when i was a kid in the 80's as well.

 

[Sparx]

inky binky bonky.
daddy had a donkey
then the donkey up and left (run out and run back in)
and then daddy, he went deaf
inky binky bonky.


I liked that one.

 

[Costumesaremylife]

We did the Miss Mary Mack song as a clapping game.

 

[ottawa-newbie]

My fave was:
House for sale, I moved in
But the man next door was drinking gin
And a-drinking gin is a very bad thing,
So I moved out and ________ moved in!!!

Umm, we changed the "drinking gin" part to "taking drugs" and that was back in the early 80's!!

 

[TigerCheer2009]

inky binky bonky.
daddy had a donkey
then the donkey up and left (run out and run back in)
and then daddy, he went deaf
inky binky bonky.


I liked that one.

We did:

Inky pinky ponky
Daddy had a donky
Donkey died
daddy cried
Ooh hooh hah!

Strange.

 

[Buckalew11]

we did the Fudge fudge one also but it didn't the part of "her boyfriend's going crazy"! That is just a bit shocking for me!!

I

 

[AngieBelle]

I remember some of those! Although, some of the lyrics are different in my memory. I remember a second one about Miss Suzie


Miss Suzie had a baby
She named him Tiny Tim
She put him in the bathtub to see if he could swim
He drank up all the water
He ate up all the soap
He tried to eat the bathtub but it wouldn't go down his throat

Miss Suzie called the doctor
Miss Suzie called the nurse
Miss Suzie called the lady with the aligator purse

Mumhps! said the doctor
Measles! said the nurse
Nothing! said the lady with the aligator purse

I know there's anothor little part, but I can't remember exactly how it ends.