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over in link the lyrics.. connie posted
Found a peanut, found a peanut,
Found a peanut just now,
Just now I found a peanut,
Found a peanut just now.
Cracked it open, cracked it open,
Cracked it open just now,
Just now I cracked it open,
Cracked it open just now.
It was rotten, it was rotten,
It was rotten just now,
Just now it was rotten,
It was rotten just now.
my version is Last night, when i was sleeping,, not just now, but its the same song..
So,
Found a peanut, found a peanut
Found a peanut last night,
Last night, when i was sleeping,
Found a peanut, last night..
you'll notice the verses follow a pattern..
in my version, there were many verses..
Ate it any way, ate it anyway...
Got sick, got sick,....
Called the doctor, called the doctor....
Died any way, died any way...
Went to heaven, went to heaven...
couldn't get in, couldn't get in...
went to hell, went to hell...
(more verses.. end up with...)
I was dreaming, i was dreaming...
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and of course the all time favorite classic
Does your chewing gum loose its flavor
On the bed post overnight?
When your mother says "don't chew it"
Do you swallow it for spite?
Can you catch it on your tonsils,
and dang it left and right?
Oh, does your chewing gum loose is flavor
on the bed post over night!
we also sang old classic UK kids songs, like:
I've got sixpence, jolly, jolly sixpence
Ive got sixpence to last me all my life
Ive got tupence to spend,
and tupence to lend,
and tupence to bring home to my wife, (poor wife!)
No cares have i to grieve me,
No dirty little (boys/girls) to decieve me,
Im as happy as a lark, believe me,
as we go rolling rolling home (dead drunk!)
rolling home, rolling home,
by light of the silvery mo, oo, oo, on,
Im as happy as a lark, believe me,
as we go rolling rolling home (dead drunk!)
next verse, four pence, (and no pence to bring home to the wife,
then tupence, and No pence lend, and no pence to bring home to wife,
and finally, i've got no pence! no pence to spend, no pence to lend, and no pence to bring home to my wife, (poor wife!)
i remember mamy more songs that clapping games or jump rope songs.. the peanut song, and the six pence song were bus trip songs.. for school trips or camp.
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I have a skipping song I thought of right off the bat. I needs names of a boy and girl, so I'll use AnnaS and Faldage as the characters since they're a "couple" that we all know already:
The wind, the wind, the wind blows hi-igh,
Blowing Anna across the sky-y,
She plays accordion, one, two, three-ee,
Pray-o, pray-o, who is he-e?
Faldage, Faldage, says he loves her,
All the boys are fighting for her,
Took her in the garden,
Sat her on his knee,
And said, "Honey, baby, will you marry me?"
[now go pepper i.e. turn the rope fast]
Yes, no, maybe so, yes, no, maybe so...
Until you miss, and whatever word you miss on, that's the answer to The Question.
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Took her in the garden
Just where are the gutter police????
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Does your chewing gum loose its flavor
On the bed post overnight?
When your mother says "don't chew it"
Do you swallow it for spite?
Can you catch it on your tonsils,
and dang it left and right?
Oh, does your chewing gum loose is flavor
on the bed post over night!
I don't know this one, but the tune sure reminds me of the Smarties jingle (sorry to get commercial):
When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last?
Do you suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast?
They're candy-coated chocolates
So tell me when I ask
When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last?
As kids, we used to sing it faster and faster - it was fun at the time.
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Hmmmmm. So, Canadian Smarties are like M&Ms? Around here, the candies called "Smarties" are tart sugar tablets. http://www.oldtimecandy.com/smarties.htm
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So, Canadian Smarties are like M&Ms?Only "like" in the sense that they are "candy coated chocolates". There's something different about the taste. European Smarties are the same as Canadian ones - I remember an Italian Smarties song about "una pioggia di Smarties" = "a shower of Smarties". Mmmm. For other US-Canada differences (I know this is a YARTlink but it's a short one) see: http://www.icomm.ca/emily/how.html
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My girls used to do this thing that went something like
"Down by banks of the hanky-panky where the bullfrogs
jump from bank to banky,
they say eep aip ope opp fiddle-dee-dee and they go kerplop"
Something like that.
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I was going to say "Gee, you must have come from New York too, you know the same songs I do..." - but you (oT) did. So of course you do!
The version of Found a Peanut I grew up with had no mention of sleeping: the third line was "last night I found a peanut" (next verse "last night I cracked it open," next verse "last night it was rotten," etc). It finally ended by working its way around to "went to Hell", "didn't like it", "went walking", and finally inevitably "Found a peanut!" and here we go again from the top. Loud laughter, of course, and unable to continue...
But I must have come from further uptown, because when we did I've Got Sixpence, it was always
"...no pretty little girls to deceive me."
Then there was "The-bear-went-over-the-mountain-and-whaddaya-think-he-saw?." The verses of that went on to "the other side of the mountain" and "he saw another mountain...and whaddaya think he did?" . These songs, like "a hundred bottles of beer on the wall," somehow all had a way of becoming repetitious eventually. (BTW, it takes only a little over twenty minutes for all 100 bottles to fall off the wall.)
For those unfortunates out there with a deprived childhood [tongue-firmly-in-cheek-e], the song goes:
"One hundred bottles of beer on the wall,
A hundred bottles of beer,
If one of those bottles should happen to fall,
Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall..."
(Repeat thusly down one bottle at a time, ad nauseum or until you get to [hallelujah!] "No bottles of beer on the wall...").
[Music supplied on request ;-) ]
These (bus-ride) songs, you understand, came mostly not from the sidewalks of New York itself as did the jump-rope or bounce-ball chants above, but rather from the summer camp or the bungalow colony/day camp in the Catskills.
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If one of those bottles should happen to fall,
Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall..."
Maybe I grew up in the land of drunks - we learned those lines as:
Take one down, pass it around, 99 bottles of beer on the wall...
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to the tune of "On top of old smokey"
On top of spagetti,
all covered with cheese
sat one little meatball,
till i happened to sneeze
it rolled off the table
and onto the floor
it rolled out the door,
and now more meat ball,
is a meat ball no more..
but there are lots of diffent things that happened to the meat ball..one version has the meat ball rolling under a bush, and the bush growing meat balls..
and the tree song.. some varients are very close to the irish, but the are american versions too
bog, bog, boggy-o, there's a tree down in the boggy-
on on this tree there is a limb, the finest limb you ever did see
and the tree is in a hole,
the holes is in the ground,
and the green grass grows
all around all round,
and the green grass grows all a round.
Now on this limb there is a branch, the finest branch
you ever did see,
the branch is on the limb,
the limb is on the tree,
the tree is in a hole,
the hole is in the ground,
and....
tree, limb branch, twig, nest, bird, chick, eye, eyelash.. progressively!
and there was an old woman who swallowed a fly...
and the boa constrictor song
and more.. i'll be back!
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