I remember seeing girls doing so many of those. That was a big one. There was another one where, it worked into the clapping game choreography, every line ended with "Bisquick" and at that point you'd reach up and brush your shoulders.
Basically from birth until adulthood when your life ends and your job begins, the girls around me were constantly sharing stuff like that between them. Over a couple decades it smoothly transitioned from pattycake to line dances to club dances. Double Dutch was in there, somewhere.
Ok so I couldn't get this out of my head and looked it up and it turns out the 'official' rhyme has it's own wikipedia page, but it's nothing like how I remember it? The official version is full of hippos and elephants and shit and she's a kid, it's really weird.
In the version I did at school, Mary Mac was an old lady and she lived in an old house, and I think it was her mother she pushed down the stairs?
This little snippet came back to me while I was doing the dishes- 'down the stairs, stairs stairs' and then something something 'crack, crack, crack, she broke her back, back, back'.
Man I wish I could remember it all, this would have been a fascinating addition to the folklore to record somewhere.
Klopapier ... (this continues counting till ten. It's about an old fashioned wooden many-seated outhouse without toiletpaper which breaks down in the end. It's one of two songs about poop my dad taught us, which briefly made my brother and me the rockstars of the playground. Poop!)
Postman pat,
Postman pat,
Postman pat ran over his cat.
Blood and guts went fly-ing,
Postman pat was cry-ing,
That will teach him not to drink and drive
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stolig@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 84d
Jingle bells Batman smells…
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 84d
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 84d
Robin laid an egg
palordrolap@fedia.io · 4 pts · 83d
Ah. You're from the post-Simpsons generation. Prior to the Simpsons writers popularising the egg line, the most common version had "Robin flew away".
Where I am, the next lines usually had Batman losing his underpants in a location that rhymed with "(a)way", most often a motorway.
adarza@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 83d
robin's been laying an egg since at least the 1970s
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 83d
Tom Scott did an entire video about this. That the UK has endless versions, but the US has been "laid an egg" for basically all of living memory.
unknown@piefed.social · 7 pts · 83d
This one was a clapping game rhyme.
Miss Mary Mac Mac Mac
All dressed in black black black
With silver buttons buttons buttons
All down her back back back
There was more, something about her house and pushing someone down stairs I think but I can't remember.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 83d
I remember seeing girls doing so many of those. That was a big one. There was another one where, it worked into the clapping game choreography, every line ended with "Bisquick" and at that point you'd reach up and brush your shoulders.
Basically from birth until adulthood when your life ends and your job begins, the girls around me were constantly sharing stuff like that between them. Over a couple decades it smoothly transitioned from pattycake to line dances to club dances. Double Dutch was in there, somewhere.
unknown@piefed.social · 2 pts · 82d
Ok so I couldn't get this out of my head and looked it up and it turns out the 'official' rhyme has it's own wikipedia page, but it's nothing like how I remember it? The official version is full of hippos and elephants and shit and she's a kid, it's really weird.
In the version I did at school, Mary Mac was an old lady and she lived in an old house, and I think it was her mother she pushed down the stairs?
This little snippet came back to me while I was doing the dishes- 'down the stairs, stairs stairs' and then something something 'crack, crack, crack, she broke her back, back, back'.
Man I wish I could remember it all, this would have been a fascinating addition to the folklore to record somewhere.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 82d
Hello operator, give me number 9,
And if you disconnect me, I think I'll lose my..
schmorpel@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 84d
Saßen zwei Gestalten
auf dem Donnerbalken
und sie schrien
nach Klopapier
Klopapier ...
Und dann kam der Dritte
Setzt sich in die Mitte
Und sie schrien
nach Klopapier
Klopapier ... (this continues counting till ten. It's about an old fashioned wooden many-seated outhouse without toiletpaper which breaks down in the end. It's one of two songs about poop my dad taught us, which briefly made my brother and me the rockstars of the playground. Poop!)
AlexCory21@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 84d
Ring around the Rosie Pocket full of posies Ashes ashes We all fall down!
Tic-Tac-Toe 3-in-a-row Barney got shot by a GI Joe Called the doctor, the doctor said Whoop! Barney's dead
unknown@piefed.social · 4 pts · 83d
I've not heard that second one, bet it was popular tho, I know primary school aged me would've found it hysterical and repeated it endlessly.
crwth@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 83d
Jingle bells Jingle bells, Santa Claus is dead // GI Joe the Eskimo shot him in the head.
Row row row your boat, gently down the stream // Throw your teacher overboard and listen to her scream.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school // We have tortured every teacher and we've broken every rule.
Chinese, Japanese, Dirty knees, Look at these.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 84d
I don't remember. It was a very long time ago.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 83d
Honestly fair
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 84d
Postman pat, Postman pat, Postman pat ran over his cat. Blood and guts went fly-ing, Postman pat was cry-ing, That will teach him not to drink and drive
palordrolap@fedia.io · 3 pts · 84d
I remember the last line as "Have you ever seen a cat as flat as that?"
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 83d
That rhymes way better
QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social · 2 pts · 83d
I love you, you love me... Then something about ganging up on Barnie...
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 83d
Let's get together and kill Barney
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 82d
With a great big (gun?) and a kick from you and me?
QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social · 1 pts · 83d
That's the one!
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 83d
🎵I hate you,
You hate me,
We're a fucked up family🎵
Was definitely popular on the playground when I was a kid.
As was "diarrhea, chachacha"
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 82d
We're going on a trip, in our favorite rocket ship...
Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 84d
Skibidi dab dab dee yes yes
Skibidi dab dab dee dee
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 83d
Lies
FluidBeef@quokk.au · 2 pts · 83d
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 83d
Under, Over, Pepsi Cola! One-a-baba, two-a-baba, un deux trois!
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 84d
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 82d
Beginegan?
Lumisal@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 83d
Un elefante, brinco le daba, a una tela de araña.
Y cuando vio, que sostenía, vino brincar otro elefante,
Dos elefantes...
Nibodhika@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 83d
Huh, that one was different for me, it was:
Un elefante, se columpiaba(n), sobre la tela de una araña
Como veía, que resistía, fue(ron) a llamar a otro elefante
Dos elefantes...
Lumisal@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 83d
Probably changes based on where. I grew up partially in El Salvador.
We also had the CriCri(?) nursery rhymes, and another one I vaguely remember that went something like
Allá en la puente, había un chorrito,
Se hacía grande, de hacía chiquito
But I forgot the rest of the lyrics at the moment
_deleted_@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 84d
Ri ra rutsch, wir fahren mit der Kutsch
username_1@programming.dev · -1 pts · 84d
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 83d
The question is asking specifics