Favorite childhood clapping rhymes

hungry4life

My 9 year old daughter is really into the clapping rhymes. I t really brings back memories here is one of my favorites. It would be great if you would post yours. Does anybody remember one about "baby moses caught a skunk, mama moses cooked him up ooh them moses sure did stunk" or something similar. Here is "Down down baby"
Down Down Baby
Down by the rollercoaster
sweet sweet baby
no place to go.
caught you with your boyfriend
naughty, naughty. Take a piece of candy
greedy, greedy . Don't do the dishes
lazy lazy. Jump out the window
crazy crazy.
Eenie meenie pops a weenie shoe
pop pops a weenie education numeration
Ilove you, tootie fruitie tootie fruitie
I love you.

Ranchette

hungry,
We had a version of this in west Texas.
I don't remember it all but I 'll tell you what I remember.
Down Down Baby
Down by the rollercoaster(RIVERSIDE)
sweet sweet baby
no place to go.(I'll nenver let you go)

caught you with your boyfriend (Shimmy shimmy coco pop)
naughty, naughty. Take a piece of candy (shimmy shimmy paap)
greedy, greedy . Don't do the dishes(repete of above)
lazy lazy. Jump out the window
crazy crazy.
Eenie meenie pops a weenie shoe
pop pops a weenie education numeration
Ilove you, tootie fruitie tootie fruitie
I love you

Well it looks like my school couldn't remember the real words so they just made something up.

We had another one called "Knock Up Side Da Head"!

I am serious!
We had to duck when the words "side da head" were said because thats when the other person swung a left or right that would knock you up side the head if you didn't remember to duck.

Ranchette

closer2fine

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 50 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 didn't come back, back, back
'Til the 4th of July, ly, ly!

closer

closer2fine

This is the version of Down, down baby that I knew:

Down, down baby, down by the rollercoaster,
Sweet, sweet baby, I'll never let you go,
Shimmy shimmy cocoa pop, shimmy shimmy rock,
I met a girlfriend, a triscuit, she said a triscuit, a biscuit,
Ice cream, soda pop, vanilla on the top,
Ooh Chelley, walking down the street, ten times a week,
I said it, I meant it, I stole my mamma's credit,
I'm cool, I'm hot, sock me in the stomach until I forget it.

closer

KenUK

I know Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water..

Always thought that was a strange place to get a pail of water from..

Not sure if you could clap to this one anyway; you'd drop the pail..

Sorry:-)

closer2fine

Patty cake
Patty cake
Baker's man
Bake me a cake
As fast as you can.
Roll it (pantomime rolling)
and
Pat it (patting)
and mark it with B (make a B in the air or on someone)
And put it in the oven for baby and me. (clapping))

closer

closer2fine

Just a few more (I used to teach elementary school :o))

My boyfriend gave me an apple
My boyfriend gave me a pear
My boyfriend gave me a kick up the b**
and threw me down the stair
He threw me over Scotland
He threw me over France
He threw me over the football pitch
I lost my underpants.
I gave him back the apple
I gave him back the pear
I gave him back the kick up the b**
And threw him down the stair
I threw him over Scotland
I threw him over France
I threw him over the football pitch
He lost his underpants!

Miss Suzy

Miss Suzy had a baby.
His name was Tiny Tim.
She put him in the bathtub
to see if he could swim.
He drank up all the water,
He ate up all the soap.
He tried to eat the bathtub,
but it wouldn't go down his throat.
Miss Suzy called the doctor,
Miss Suzy called the nurse,
Miss Suzy called the lady
with the alligator purse

Soda Song

Coca-cola went to town,
Diet Pepsi knocked him down.
Doctor Pepper fixed him up,
now I'm drinking 7-up.
7-up caught the flu,
now I'm drinking Mountain Dew.
Mountain Dew fell off the mountain,
now I'm drinking from the water fountain.
Water fountain got too hot,
Now I'm drinking plain old milk.
Milk, Milk is good for the bones.

closer

Englishman

In Anholt, a small island between Denmark and Sweden, the children sing:

Jeck og Jill

Vent op der hill

Og Jell kom tombling after.

Ref B. Bryson, Made in America.

Which is quite remarkable as few understand a word of English. Their forbears learned the ditty from British soldiers during the Napoleonic wars and it has been passed from generation to generation.

Englishman.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be....

peaceloveharmony

here's one i remember

see see oh Playmate
come out and play with me
and bring your dollies three,
climb up my apple tree,
slide down my rainbarrel
into my cellar door
and we'll be jolly friends forever more.

No, no, no playmate, I cannot play with you
my dollies have the flu,
boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo,
ain't got no rain barrel,
ain't got no cellar door,
but we'll be jolly friends forever more.

there's more to it but i can't remember...

here's another

When Billy Boy was one, he learned to suck his thumb
Thumb-ioka [rhymes with tapioca], Thumb-ioka, half past one! Cross, down
When Billy Boy was two, he learned to tie his shoe
Shoe-ioka, shoe-ioka, half past two! Cross down
When Billy Boy was three, he learned to tap his knee [or whatever], Knee-ioka, knee-ioka, half past three! Cross down
[Instructions: On the word "cross" you cross your arms so your right hand goes to your left shoulder and your left hand to your right shoulder. On the word "down," you pat both knees and start the game over.]

and closer, here's some more miss susie ones, as i remember these could get a bit naughty (well, naughty for a 12 yr old hehe)

Miss Susie has a steamboat, the steamboat has a bell
Miss Susie went to Heaven, the steamboat went to
hell-o operator, please give me # 9,
and if you disconnect me, I'll kick you from
be-hind the 'fridgerator' there lays a piece of glass,
Miss Susie sat upon it and cut her little
ass- k me no more questions, please tell me no more lies,
the flies are in the city the bees are in the park,
Miss Susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the D - A - R - K,
D - A - R - K, dark!

closer2fine

LOL I totally forgot the Miss Susie one :o)

Here's one from Sesame Street this morning (Elmo):

Down, down baby I can do karate
Down, down baby I can call my mommy
Down, down baby I can shake my body
Down, down baby I can eat salami
Down, down baby oops, I'm sorry!

closer

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