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Silly Rhymes.

Jack and Jill,
Went up the hill,
To get a pail of water.
Jill came down,
With half-a-crown
For doing what she hadn't ought't'.
 
We as kids used to say to each other ..
Tell Tale Tit , you tongue will split ,
and all the little doggies will have a little bit

 
Peter told me a rhyme they said to their brother Mervin to wind him up. There was a red nut who fell in the cut and killed all the fish, but he is not sure what comes next?.
 
Mom used to sing this to us down the air raid shelter and I still sing it to my grand kids. 'There was a man and and he went mad and her run up a steeple, he pulled off his big red nose and threw it at the people, there was a lady passing by who thought it very funny, she picked it up and wiped it dry then sold it for some money. Regards, David.
 
Hi David. Mom used to say there was a little man who had a little gun and his bullets were made of lead lead lead forgot the bit in the middle but it ended he shot someone dead dead dead????. Jean.
 
Jean, 'Ginger nut fell in the cut and frightened all the fishes, a fish came up and swallowed him up and that was the end of ginger nut.' I too am a ginger nut so had it sung to me many many times which caused many fist fights. Regards David.
 
Jean, 'There was a little man who had a little gun and his bullets were made of lead, he went to the brook and shot a little duck right in the middle of its head. Regards, David.
 
I think the one mom told us shot poor Johny somebody or other dead?. She used to say the one. "I chased a bug around a tree I'll catch his blood he knows I will. Don't say it too fast though?. Jean.
 
Hi Thylacine
Two of my wifes (learnt on her Granmas lap );

Whats your name? Mary Jane
Where do you live? Down the Lane
Whats your address ? Watercress
Whats the number ? Cucumber

Mr Knox, keeps his socks
In a pale pink chocolate box
Orange socks with spots and clocks
Oh you dandy Mr Knox.
 
What's the time,ten to nine,
hang your washing on the line,
when they're dry,bring them in,
put them in the biscuit tin.
 
I see said the blind man.there's a hole in the wall. you liar said the dumb man you can't see at all
 
oldjoe said:
What's the time,ten to nine,
hang your washing on the line,
when they're dry,bring them in,
put them in the biscuit tin.
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Have you censored this oldjoe? When I was at school it was 'knickers' not washing!!

My Mom's ditty was:

Little fly upon the wall
Ain't you got no shirt at all
Ain't you got no shimmy-shirty
Oh Cor Blimey ain't you dirty.

Don't know where it came from.
 
Lady Penelope said:
Have you censored this oldjoe? When I was at school it was 'knickers' not washing!!

My Mom's ditty was:

Little fly upon the wall
Ain't you got no shirt at all
Ain't you got no shimmy-shirty
Oh Cor Blimey ain't you dirty.

Don't know where it came from.
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i thought that LP.but did no like to say:grinning:......When we were kids we laughed about it. and would not accept any biscuits,off people just in case.
 
Seen in the main gate sentry box at Seaton Barracks,Plymouth.
Ring a ring o protons
A pocket full of neutrons
A fission, a fusion
We'll all fall down.

Try this.
Old mother Hubbard went to the cupboard
to get the postman a letter.
When she got there,the cupboard was bare
so they had it without,it was better!

Nodd the naughty.
 
Carolynn said:
There are a couple I can remember but not the full verses and I am sure someone will remember them.
1st one was about throwing seeds in the ground - one for the rook, one for the? and one for the ground that grew nothing at all. The 2nd was about 2 tom cats come knocking at the door. Please help
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My father used to quote the rhyme about sowing grains: One for the rook, one for the crow, one to rot, and one to grow. I think this had a serious purpose as an illustration of the sort of germination rates the aspiring farmer must reckon with.
 
Thylacine said:
Another one from the Opies' book, which many of us will recognize. This is an 1892 version recorded in Birmingham:
What's your name? Mary Jane.​
Where do you live? Womber Lane.​
What do you do? Keep a school.​
How many scholars? Twenty-two.​
How many more? Twenty-four.​
What's your number? Cucumber.​
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My mother used the line: What's your address? Watercress! (presumably following on from cucumber)
 
NoddKD said:
Seen in the main gate sentry box at Seaton Barracks,Plymouth.
Ring a ring o protons
A pocket full of neutrons
A fission, a fusion
We'll all fall down.

Try this.
Old mother Hubbard went to the cupboard
to get the postman a letter.
When she got there,the cupboard was bare
so they had it without,it was better!

Nodd the naughty.
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That's from the 1960s at a guess, the days of the CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament). In Scotland CND parodied an children's song about Twa Craws setting' on a wa' (Two crows sitting on a wall) and turned it into a protest about the arrival of American submarines with nuclear missiles which were operated out of the Holy Loch on the Clyde estuary
Och, och, there's a monster in the loch,
monster in the loch,monster in the loch, och, och, och,
Och, och, there's a monster in the loch,
an' we dae not want Polaris!
 
We used to sing this to my son.

Inky pinky ponky,
Daddy had a donkey,
donkey died
Daddy cried,
inky pinky ponky.

I sang it to my grandaughter many years ago and she cried, she said she didn't want her Daddy to cry!!
rosie.
 
One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead men got up to fight,
Turned their backs to face each other,
Drew their knives and shot each other.

Or for finger pointing at school

Eeny meeny maccer-raccer,
Dare dum doomer-raccer,
Chicker popper,
Lolli popper,
Rum tum tush.

Why can I remember that and not what I had for lunch yesterday ? Andrew.
 
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