Category Archives: Clap and Rhyme
oooo i remember that one,…
Original author: Brittany [e-mail]
oooo i remember that one, um.. I’m not sure if its the same one, becuase I know a few like it, but I remember something that goes, …go to Hello Operater just give me number 9… and stuff like that but I’m not sure what else
I recall the one with the…
Original author: sarah [e-mail]
I recall the one with the girl growing up! The only verse I recall is when she was a teenager she went “Ooh, ah, I lost my bra, I lost it in my boyfriend’s car!”, which was everso scandalous at the time.
Does anyone remember the…
Original author: Adrienne H. [e-mail]
Does anyone remember the rest of this: …to the Jackie Gleason Studio Mr. Knickerboker, Knickerbocker Doobi-di do Your sure look slick A Hickory Stick Now lets get the rythmn with the hands 1,2,3, We got the rythmn with the hands 1,2,3, Now, lets get the rythm with the feet 1,2,3, Now we got the rythm with the feet 1,2,3, Who’s got the rythm with the eeeeyes We got the rythm with the eeeyes Who’s got the rythmn with the hips Oh Boy!! We got the rythm with the hips Oh Boy!! Who got the rythm with the count by 5’s 5, 10, 15,….so on. I think this was achoosing song with the girls standing in a circle. When you started counting by 5s the girl in the middle would close her eyes and spin around in a circle with her hand pointed out. When we reached 100, that girl would replace the girl in the middle and the song would start all over again. This was played in Jamaica, Queens during the ’60s.
I grew up in the 80’s and…
Original author: neesamaxwell
I grew up in the 80’s and I remember flea fly like this: Flea (repeat) Flea fly (repeat) Flea fly mosquito (repeat) Oh, no,no,no more mosquitos (repeat) Itchy, itchy, scratchy, scratchy ooh I got one down my backy (repeat) Ishy billy oat in boat in bo bo n deet n dot n walla unch!
Someone just informed me…
Original author: Marilyn [e-mail]
Someone just informed me of this site. What fun it is! I was thrilled to see a basket of Spaldeens in the store and bought a half dozen. I don’t think I ever bought one as a kid because during WWII rubber was rationed and the only place you could get them was on the black market. We acquired ours on the roof when the boys lost them playing stickball. We would retrieve them and wash them in hot water, that revived the bounce and we played these familiar girls games. No one in the store where I bought them understood the meaning of these precious balls. I had fun bouncing them on the counter. I remember “A” my name best but the other games ring a bell too. Thanks for sharing. I grew up in The Bronx, near Crotona Park.
I am 71 years old and and…
Original author: Rose Stuart
I am 71 years old and and recently realized that my grandchildren don’t know how to play any of the games we played when I was little. I have bought a length of clothesline and, at Christmas, I’m going to take them outside and teach them to jump rope to some of the rhymes from your website. They brought back wonderful memories. Of course, I think I’ll be a “steady-ender” most of the time.
what are the words to say…
I used to play several games…
Original author: Mary dB [e-mail]
I used to play several games with a ball big enough and soft enough to play kickball with, but I would bounce it against the wall. There were rhymes and routines, such as bouncing it once one way, bouncing it twice another, three yet another, etc. Anybody remember any of the rhymes or routines? Mary
I grew up in Miami in the…
Original author: Diana
I grew up in Miami in the 80’s. I’m the only person I know who remembers this one: When Susie was a baby, a baby, a baby When Susie was a baby, she used to go like this: [Pretend to suck thumb and say Waa! Waa!] When Susie was a schoolgirl, a schoolgirl, a schoolgirl When Susie was a schoolgirl, she used to go like this: [???] I can’t remember what she did, but the verses took her through teenager, mother, grandmother, angel, mummy, skeleton, etc. I know the for the “mother” you’d scold your finger at the other girl, and the “skeleton” would place her arms over her chest. Anyone else remember?