Nowadays there would have to be another verse along the lines of...
A neighborhood kid caught it all on tape
Put it on
Youtube and the hits went ape
The neighborhood association didn't like the clothes line
Made my mother and your mother pay a big fine
Police men came and arrested my mother
DFACS came and took away me and my brother
Laughing emoticons cannot describe how funny I found this to be.
My favorite was always:
Miss Lucy had a steamboat
the steamboat had a bell
Miss Lucy went to heaven
the steamboat went to
hellll-oooperator give me number 9
if you disconnect me
I'll kick you in the
behind the friderator there was a piece of glass
Miss Lucy sat upon it and cut her big fat ......
Etc, etc.
Anyone remember that one???
We did it slightly different, but we just LOVED the "ooh you're about to say a dirty word" rhymes.
Assk me no more questions, tell me no more lies.
The boys are in the bathroom zipping up their
Flies are in the country, bees are in the spring.
Miss Lucy's in the park kissing in the d-a-r-k, d-a-r-k, d-a-r-k dark!
Does that sound right?
Wow, never heard that one!
I remember in 3rd grade we were told at school that we had to say "catch a TIGER by the toe," and not use the original offensive word any more.
I grew up in CA, with parents from CO and NY, and I never knew there was another word originally in there until I nearly made an old-time Southern Lady faint as I started into "eeny meeny"... I'm sure SHE had used it in her past (she was a Lady in most ways, but she surely did have some, um, attitudes against certain people) which is how she knew it, but she also knew me and the way I am, and could NOT believe what she thought I was about to say! I was so incredibly embarrassed, that I made her worried AND that I'd never known there was another word in that rhyme... The other word version didn't seem to make it out to CA, at least in my area!
My eyes have seeing the glory of the burning of the school.
We have tortured every teacher, we have broken every rule.
We are going to hang the principal tomorrow afternoon.
Our truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
Teacher hit me with a ruler.
I hid behind the door with a loaded 44
And there wasn't no teacher anymore.
Ours was:
My eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
We have tortured every teacher we have broken every rule
We shot the secretary and we hung the principal
Our troops are marching on
Glory glory hallelujah
Teacher hit me with a ruuuulah
Knocked her on the floor with a loaded 44
Our troops are marching on.
I know of no socio/psychopaths that came out of our school, either.
Did anyone else sing this one at camp?
Titanic
Oh, they built the ship Titanic to sail the ocean blue, and they thought they had a ship that the water wouldn't go through, but the good lord raised his hand, said "The ship would never land". It was sad when the great ship went down, down, down.
Refrain:
It was sad, so sad,
It was sad, too bad,
It was sad when the great ship went down to the bottom of the sea
Husband and wives little children lost their lives, It was sad when the great ship went down, down, down.
They were nearing to the shore, when the water began to pour. And the rich refused to associate with the poor, so they sent them down below where they'd be the first to go. It was sad when the great ship went down, down, down.
Refrain
Lady Astor turned around just to see her husband drown, as the ship Titanic made a gurgling sound. So she wrapped herself in mink, as the ship began to sink. It was sad when the great ship when down, down, down.
Refrain
Now the moral of the story is very plain to see, you should wear a life preserver when you go out to sea. The Titanic never made it and never more shall be. It was sad when the great ship went down, down, down.
Kerplunk, it sunk to the bottom of the sea(hold sea for length of normal refrain)
That's actually a pretty amazing song. Some PhD candidate could probably use it as a start to a thesis on storytelling and history...
if you had a crush on someone
and your friends picked up on it they would sing-
Sally and Johnny sitting in a tree..K I S S I N G...first came love, then came marriage, then came Sally with a baby carriage. (fictious names used to protect the innocent!) Sure made my face turn red!
I was just singing that to DS (just under 6 yo).
He seems to be ahead of the curve on being "in love" with people...he's mad for Giada DeLaurentis and just about any 20-something with pretty blonde hair and lots of makeup he sees in real life, and now he's googly over Hannah Montana "and" Miley Cyrus.
We were doing his learning work (we homeschool) and working on the letter Y and its various sounds, and I was talking about what it "does" at the end of a name/word, like my name Molly. That got into Lily and Olly (Ollie), who are of course from Hannah Montana, and I just started the K-I-S-S-I-N-G song about Lily and Ollie...he thought it was the funniest thing ever.
