This site has brought back so many memories!! I was so happy to find others who remember “the spades go tulips together…” a very complicated hand slapping game. My family is from Inwood but we moved across the river to Hudson county NJ when I was small. Here are some Jersey versions of street game songs:
Jump rope chant:
Cinderella dressed in yella
Went downtown to buy some mustard
On the way her girdle busted
How many people where disgusted
10-20-30-40, etc.
(jumping fast as the rope turns)

Does anyone else remember this circe game song?

I’m a bowlegged chicken on a knock-kneed fence
Never been so happy since I don’t know when
And I walk with a wiggle and wobble and a twist
Doin the Tennessee Wig-walk.
Just doin the Tennesee wig-walk.

Terri here are some variations on the “I wish I were” song:

I wish I were a little bar of soap, bar of soap
I wish I were a little bar of soap
I’d slippy and I’d sliddy over everybody’s hiney
Oh I wish I were a little bar of soap

I wish I were a little bumble bee, bumble bee
I wish I were a little bumble bee
I’d sit up on the steeple and I’d spit on all the people
Oh I wish I were a little bumble bee

I also remember many stanzas to the Lulu had a baby she named him Tiny Tim song but they are pretty dirty.

Also here is a variation on the “we are the girls of” song:

We are the Jersey girls
We wear are hair in curls
We wear our brothers shirts
They call us stupid jerks.

Oh, ladies, thank you so much for the memories.