Round and round the garden

[Booldawg]

Well here's a thing!

I was aimlessly browsing through a nursery rhyme site that gives the history/meaning of various childrens rhymes.

Came across this;

Round and round the garden
Little Teddy bear
One step
Two steps
Tickle you under there!


A well know rhyme, but I have always known the 2nd line as 'Like a Teddy Bear' - What do you know the 2nd line as?

[Infomaniac]

I always knew it as "Like a Teddy bear"

[Wharton]

Like

[2sp_]

I thought it was "goes the teddy bear"...

[Booldawg]

I also know the last line as 'tickly under there'

[Wharton]

I remember it as the parent holding the child's outstretched arm, palm upwards, doing round and round the garden with her/his fingers on the palm and then running the fingers up the arm to the armpit and Tickle you under there! - happy days!

[woofgang]

I too know it as "like a teddy bear"

[LoftyLottie]

Like a Teddy Bear

[LoftyLottie]

and 'Tickly under there'

[Frank97]

I've always known it as 'like' and 'tickly'!

[Wharton]

It's Like & Tickle - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

[LoftyLottie]

LOL

Definitely Like and Tickly

[Ratty2E]

I'm definately in the 'like' and 'tickly' camp

[marval]

Like a Teddy bear, and tickly under there

[FredPuli43]

"Like a teddy bear". And the version I know ends "tickly under there".

[Wharton]

WikipediA has 'Tickle you under there' - so THERE!

[LoftyLottie]

But Wikipedia ain't accurate. So there back. Anyone can put something on Wikipedia!! Sticks tongue out at Wharton ;o)

[Ellipsis]

Little = Like a
Two steps = Two step
Tickle you = Tickly


Round and round the garden
Like a teddy bear
One step
Two step
Tickly under there!

[thenry]

Like a Teddy bear ? Hey honey - you got the goddam thing just about right there !

[erin-x]

Exactly as Ellipsis just wrote... The kids at work love it!

[LoftyLottie]

I was reading somewhere when googling this that it is done on a child's tummy. I never remember that. It was always done on the upturned palm of a childs hand a far as I know!!