Hey, my niece does this…
Hey, my niece does this to me all the time I see her! She’s just turned 14. Only the above style she performs like a nursery rhyme. All I can remember (usually I am all a tingle when she starts as I am very ticklish..) is the part “comma, comma, comma, comma—Question Mark!” “big squueze—(followed by a hug)” “cool breeze” with the subsequent blow upon my neck. Goose pimples every time.
I grew up in Philadelphia…
I grew up in Philadelphia and I remember part of another “skin” game, similar to what you describe. You used someone’s forearm and you planted a garden (or something like that). As you said “first, you rake” you scratched the person’s arm, then you flicked as you “planted”, you spat, to “water”, slapped to “pat” down the ground. Eventually, red marks, (and a good planting left welts!) would result in the “harvest”. I can’t remember this exactly, because it wasn’t very nice, but it was clever!
I grew up in the 70s in…
I grew up in the 70s in South Philly, and yes, we played this game, but we called it “Refrigerator”. It was one of the games played at dusk, because we had to stay “in front of the house”. We would stand against the wall of a house which was on the side of the street without parking. The person who was It would stand, opposite us, against a parked car. Then, we would all run to the car and back. We would say “In my refrigerator, I have some_____ (milk, dirty socks, etc).”
I’m from Boston and learned…
I’m from Boston and learned some of these song from my grandmother when we went camping and some from school. It’s funny how we all learn different versions (some are much better). This is one that I saw many different ways. This is how I learned it: In the land of mars, where the ladies smoke cigars Every breath they take, its enough to kill a snake When the snakes are dead, they put roses in their head When the roses die they put diamonds in their eye. When the diamonds break then it’s 1968
How about this one, …
I learned this in kindergarden…
I learned this in kindergarden a few children in a circle and one in the middle as you sing the song everyone in the circle holds hands and walks in a circle As I was going to kentucky I was going to the fair I met a cenurita with flowers in her hair “then everyone stops walking and the cenurita does what the song says but at the end the person in the middle closes her eyes and turns around until the song says stop and the person she is pointing at is the next one in the middle” oh shake it cenurita shake it if you can shake it like a milkshake and do the best you can oh rumble to the bottom rumble to the top then turn around and turn around until you make a stop…
and another name for then…
hiya me again i remembered…
hiya me yet again i remeber…
hiya me yet again i remeber this it was called chinese ropes as well or chinq’s or chinkes u did yer elastic bands and put then rnd yer ankles and the song i did scotland. england ,ireland wales inside out side monkeys tales…. there was others but trying to find them is madness any one knows them gimmie a shout or add me dont matter how old this post might be when u read it let me know ….lol