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ah, those days in the playground. shit; they really were quite wild. there was a lot of yelling and fighting when we kids weren't kept busy with games and nonsensical songs that, at the time, we didn't even think were odd. but i was thinking back on some of those clap games and songs, and wanted to start a little sing-along, to reminisce and see if y'all knew any others :) . here's the song that got the most airplay in my circles:

miss lucy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell (ding ding)

miss lucy went to heaven and the steamboat went to hel-

lo operator, please give me number nine

and if you disconnect me, i will chop off your be-

hind the 'fridgerator, there was a piece of glass

miss lucy sat upon it and it went right up her as-

k me no more questions, i'll tell you no more lies

the boys are in the bathroom. pulling down their fl-

ies are in the garden, the bees are in the park

the boys and girls are kissing in the d-a-r-k, d-a-r-k, d-a-r-k

dark, dark, dark

the dark is like a movie, the movie's like a show

a show is like a tv set and that is all i kn-

ow, i know my mother, i know, i know my pa

i know, i know my sister with the 18-hour, 18-hour, 18-hour

bra, bra, bra!

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Originally posted by gmccookny

Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, GOOSE! was a great game!

and for songs, have any of you ever actually sung the song Kumbaya ?/? or is it just a hippie thing :confused:

yeah i remember kumbaya.

and row, row, row your boat.....

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Originally posted by vicman

check this site out:

http://home.wnm.net/~debi/puff.htm

holy crap :eek: !!! where did you find that? that animation wasn't even good enough to warrant the time it must've taken to make it. whoever did it must've either had a lot of time on his/her hands or just been totally obsessed with the song. but i didn't remember that it had such a depressing ending!

well, vic and gmccookny, i didn't really mean the sixties songs that our parents, who were of that generation, pounded into our heads, or the nursery rhymes. i meant the ones that we busied ourselves with: the clap games, the jump rope songs, the weird ones we made up (that usually involved things like worms or doody), and the ones that determined who was "it" in tag. maybe you boys (eeew!) wouldn't know the jump rope ones or the clap game ones as well as i do.

here are some examples of what i mean:

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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 fifteen cents, cents, cents

to see the elephants, elephants, elephants

jump over the fence, fence, fence

they jumped so high, high, high

they reached the sky, sky, sky

and they never came back, back, back

till the fourth of ju-ly, ly, ly

***that one was a clap game, hence the unbearable repetition

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engine, engine, number nine

going down the chicago line

if the train goes off the track

do you want your money back?

[then you ask the person whose foot you land on if they do or not. if yes, then you count 3 feet over - Y-E-S - and that person's out. if no, it's 2 - N-O.]

***"it" picking

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i've got more, but this post is long as it is :D ! i hope you guys have some i don't know :) .

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oh gee...more kids songs? damn thats kinda difficult since i didnt know english well enough until i was in 1st or 2nd grade...or maybe i never paid attention at all when i was in kindergarden, maybe thats why i always go tsent to ESL classes until i was in 3rd hgrade :(

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Originally posted by vicman

oh gee...more kids songs? damn thats kinda difficult since i didnt know english well enough until i was in 1st or 2nd grade...or maybe i never paid attention at all when i was in kindergarden, maybe thats why i always go tsent to ESL classes until i was in 3rd hgrade :(

i didn't know you were an esl person; do tell :) !
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