Childhood Chants

[Canary42]

Memory's a funny thing.  I'm not sure what triggered it, but I just remembered :-

 

I'm the king of the castle

Get down you dirty rascal

 

So, let's have some nostalgic chatterbank fun with a few of your youthful chants.

[ToraToraTora]

I remember: Eeny meeny miney mo....... anyone know the rest?

[Bazile]

Zigger Zagger, Zigger Zagger, oi, oi, oi!,

[barry1010]

Liar liar pants on fire

[Khandro]

// Eeny meeny miney mo....... anyone know the rest?//

"sit the baby on the po" 

[bhg481]

when it's done

wipe its bum

eeny meeny miney mo

[Hopkirk]

Oh dear, what can the matter be

Two old dears stuck in the lavatory 

They'll be there from Monday to Saturday 

Nobody knows they are there

[Khandro]

It was a girl's thing more than a boy's. Girls had skipping songs eg ;

"My mother said, I never should, play with the gypsies in the wood."

[-SharonA-]

To the tune of Frere Noel

Father Christmas father Christmas, he got stuck, coming down the chimney, what bad luck, what bad luck.

[bhg481]

down in the jungle

got the belly-ache

can't find a lavatory

(raspberry) too late.

[Hopkirk]

TTT, it was changed to 

Eeny meeny macaracca rare rye dominacca 

Stick a rocka lollipopa rum pum push.

[Canary42]

Nice one Khandro, I knew it as :-

"My mother said, I never should,

play with the gypsies in the wood.

If I did, she would say

"Naughty little child to run away"

[Neveracrossword]

To a sneak...

Tell tale tit,

Your mammy cannae knit

Your daddy cannae go to bed

Withoot a dummy tit.

[Hopkirk]

Wouldn't it be funny if a woman had a wooden tit, wouldn't it.

(I did grow up eventually, but memories stick)

[ferlew]

Tell tale tit
Your tongue will split
And all the doggies in the town
Will have a little bit.

[windywillow]

I remember it slightly different:

I'm the king of the castle and you're the dirty rascal.

 

[Hopkirk]

Spot on Windywillow

[brainiac]

We used to sing:

I'm the king of the castle, you're a dirty wee rascal

[FoxLee2]

Not a chant but as kids we would ask one another if they were a PLP?  If the answer was no, they were told they were not a proper living person.  If the answer was yes, they were told that they were a public leaning post. Hilarious!!

[elliemay1]

a skipping rhyme:

My mother and your mother were hanging out clothes

My mother gave your mother a punch on the nose

Wht colour was the blood,

R-E-D spells red!

[elliemay1]

^ What!