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Did you ever, ever, ever in your long-legged life
See a long-legged lover and his long-legged wife?
No, I never, never, never in my long-legged life
Saw a long-legged lover and his long-legged wife
Variation on a theme - inevitable; expect many. This is how I learned this one:
Did you ever, eever, iver in your leaf, loaf, life
See the Devil, Deevil, Duyvil kiss his weef, wofe, wife?
No, I never, neever, niver in my leaf, loaf, life
Saw the Devil, Deevil, Duyvil kiss his weef, wofe, wife!
(There was only the one verse.)
Regarding Pattycake/Pat-a-cake: the letter for marking was always adjustable, so the song could be personalized for whatever Baby's name was. B was for Baby, of course, but any first-name-whose-initial-sounded-like-ee would do fine. If your name began with a B,C,D,E,G,P,T,V, or even a Z you had your very own song!
One from my wife's childhood:
(Baby is facing you, being gently bounced on your lap)
Ride a horse to Boston,
Ride a horse to Lynn,
Watch out, little {baby's name}
You don't fall INNNN !!!! [legs spread apart suddenly and of course baby does exactly that!]
(both giggle madly; pull up child, put legs together again, repeat ad libitum)
But I guess that's not exactly a "tappe les mains" game, is it...
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Ditto this--
Ride a horse to Boston,
Ride a horse to Lynn,
Watch out, little {baby's name}
You don't fall INNNN !!!! [legs spread apart suddenly and of course baby does exactly that!]
but we said,
Trot trot to boston,
trot trot to lynn
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Sweet Violets was apparently recorded by Mitch Miller and went something like this:
There once was a farmer who took a young miss
In back of the barn where he gave her a
Lecture on horses and chickens and eggs
and told her that she had such beautiful
manners that suited a girl of her charms,
A girl that he wanted to take in his
washing and ironing and then if she did
They could get married and raise lots of --
Chorus: Sweet violets, sweeter than the roses
Covered all over from head to toe
Covered all over with sweet violets.
(Guess I didn't misremember all that much after all!)
Didn't find the second or third verse on a brief Google, though.
The original song is, not unexpectedly but not very helpfully either, "traditional."
Did find that, while it's gently misleading to the hearer as to what the next word will be, it's really _very_ much cleaned up (had to be, I guess, to be a Hit Parade song aroung 1950) and what the violets were Covered All Over with was much stronger indeed...
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Oh and remember
Lavenders blue dilly dilly
Lavernders green,
when i am king dilly dilly
you shall be queen
Who told you so, dilly dilly
who told you so?
it was my own heart dilly dilly
that told me so.
i think there are other verses.. and i am 99% sure its very old, and a Child Ballad.. maybe i'll go look
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Roses are red, dilly dilly
Violets are blue
Because you love me, dilly dilly
I will love you
Let the bells sing, dilly dilly
And the lambs play
We shall be safe, dilly dilly
Out of harm's way
or the one that I knew:
Rose are red, dilly dilly
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet, dilly dilly
So are you
Or the modern alternative:
Roses are red, dilly dilly
violets are blue
Rubbish is dumped, dilly dilly
So are you
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Neat stuff, wofahulicodoc, especially
"...see the devil, deevel, duyval, kiss his weefe, woofe, wife"
Thanks, be cool,
Milo.
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Such a great thread, bel!
And thanks, WW... I'd been struggling to remember that "Two Lips Together" and couldn't get past the first line.
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Roses are red, dilly dilly
..or the alternative modern alternative
Roses are red, dilly dilly
Violets are blue
Daffodils are expensive
Will dandelions do?
Who said romance was dead?!?
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My Mother said I never should
Play with the gypsies in the wood
My father said that if I did
He'd beat my head with a teapot lid
(...which may explain a lot...)
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and i learned i always sang a mondegreen..
two lips together,
twilight forever!-- d'oh, how dumb was i?
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