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 thought that LP.but did no like to say......When we were kids we laughed about it. and would not accept any biscuits,off people just in case.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.
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.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
My mother used the line: What's your address? Watercress! (presumably following on from cucumber)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.
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 estuarySeen 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.