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What nursery rhymes and playground songs were popular when you were very young?
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Jingle bells Batman smells…
Robin laid an egg
Ah. You're from the post-Simpsons generation. Prior to the Simpsons writers popularising the egg line, the most common version had "Robin flew away".
Where I am, the next lines usually had Batman losing his underpants in a location that rhymed with "(a)way", most often a motorway.
robin's been laying an egg since at least the 1970s
This one was a clapping game rhyme.
Miss Mary Mac Mac Mac
All dressed in black black black
With silver buttons buttons buttons
All down her back back back
There was more, something about her house and pushing someone down stairs I think but I can't remember.
Ring around the Rosie Pocket full of posies Ashes ashes We all fall down!
Tic-Tac-Toe 3-in-a-row Barney got shot by a GI Joe Called the doctor, the doctor said Whoop! Barney's dead
I've not heard that second one, bet it was popular tho, I know primary school aged me would've found it hysterical and repeated it endlessly.
I love you, you love me... Then something about ganging up on Barnie...
Let's get together and kill Barney
That's the one!
🎵I hate you,
You hate me,
We're a fucked up family🎵
Was definitely popular on the playground when I was a kid.
As was "diarrhea, chachacha"
Jingle bells Jingle bells, Santa Claus is dead // GI Joe the Eskimo shot him in the head.
Row row row your boat, gently down the stream // Throw your teacher overboard and listen to her scream.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school // We have tortured every teacher and we've broken every rule.
Chinese, Japanese, Dirty knees, Look at these.
Saßen zwei Gestalten
auf dem Donnerbalken
und sie schrien
nach Klopapier
Klopapier ...
Und dann kam der Dritte
Setzt sich in die Mitte
Und sie schrien
nach Klopapier
Klopapier ... (this continues counting till ten. It's about an old fashioned wooden many-seated outhouse without toiletpaper which breaks down in the end. It's one of two songs about poop my dad taught us, which briefly made my brother and me the rockstars of the playground. Poop!)
- I've Been Working On The Railroad.
- There was an Old Man Named Michael Finnegan.
Postman pat, Postman pat, Postman pat ran over his cat. Blood and guts went fly-ing, Postman pat was cry-ing, That will teach him not to drink and drive
I remember the last line as "Have you ever seen a cat as flat as that?"
That rhymes way better
Skibidi dab dab dee yes yes
Skibidi dab dab dee dee
Lies
I don't remember. It was a very long time ago.
Honestly fair
Ri ra rutsch, wir fahren mit der Kutsch
Local for my region/culture, obviously.
The question is asking specifics