Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Short playground rhymes from my youth in the early 1960's

Everybody's doing it, doing it, doing it.
Picking their nose and chewing it, chewing it, chewing it.
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Jingle bells,
Batman smells,
Robin laid an egg.
The Batmobile lost a wheel
And Joker took ballet.
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Engine Engine Number Nine
Going down Chicago line
If the train falls off the track
Do you want your money back?
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Whistle while you work.
Hitler is a jerk.
Mussolini bit his weenie.
Now it doesn't work.
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Whistle while you work
Hitler is a jerk
Rosellini bit his weenie
And now it will not squirt.

[Albert Rosellini is now 98 years old, and at least a couple of years ago was still practicing law in Seattle! He was governor of Washington State in my formative years from, 1957-1965.]
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Tra la la boom de-ay
There was no school today.
Our teacher passed away,
She died of tooth decay!
Tra-la-la Boom de ay!
I took your pants away...
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Tra-la-la Boom de ay!
Baffaro passed away
We threw him in the bay
And watched him float away.

[Peter Baffaro was the longtime principal of Kent Elementary, Kent, Washington]
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Liar,Liar!
Pants are on fire!
[Reply]
I don't care,
I don't care!
I can buy another pair!
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Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream
Throw the teacher overboard and listen to her scream!
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School's out, school's out,
The teacher let the monkeys out.
One went in, and one went out,
And one fell in the sauerkraut.

[At around the time I heard, and sang this ditty, Kent, Wash. was one of the largest sauerkraut producing regions in the country. I remember taking several tours of the Libby Sauerkraut plant. And they weren't alone...there were others. Not many Germans or Eastern Europens lived in Kent, so I have to assume it was because Kent was a prime cabbage-growing area.]
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It's Howdy Doody time
It ain't worth a dime
We'll turn to Channel Nine
And watch Frankenstein
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Lincoln, Lincoln, I've been thinking,
What the hell have you been drinking?
Taste like beer smells like wine.
Oh my God it's Turpentine.
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4 comments:

  1. Glory, Glory Hallelujah
    Teacher hit me with a ruler
    I bopped her of her beam
    with a rotten tangerine
    and the teacher doesn't teach here any more.

    Can also replace "tangerine" with "bubble gum machine"

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  2. Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream
    Throw the teacher overboard and listen to her scream!
    5 days later
    you come back to the Delaware
    Chewin' on your underwear
    Pick your teacher out of there
    (i don't remember the rest)

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  3. I guess the loaded .44 must come from my upbringing in Kent!

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  4. Had not heard lincolnLincoln in a long time...but sometimes after a t6ough day, I fall asleep with it ringing in my ears.
    How about
    "Stranded
    Stuck on the toilet bowl
    What do you do when youre stranded
    And you don't have a roll"

    Found your site reading up on LBJ... snagged the pic of he anf MLK.

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