Category Archives: Clap and Rhyme

This is such a neat site!…

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Original author: Deetin (spider-ta034.proxy.aol.com - 152.163.205.59) [e-mail]
 

This is such a neat site! I got my nieces chinese jumpropes for Christmas and I am trying to find directions for them since they live far away. I played it growing up in Hawaii, but we never sang rhymes to it. We just did 10-20-30…and when we got to 100 we would land on the ropes with both feet. We used to play it during recess at school. Chinese checkers too!

I remember it as… Down…

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Original author: Suzanne Harchik (sharchik) [e-mail]
 

I remember it as… Down town baby. Down by the roller coaster. Sweet sweet baby. Don’t let ‘ya momma know. Shimmee shimmee cocoa ba. Shimme shimme p-ie. Oooh cheechie wawa tabisco. I’ve got another tabisco. Just like cherry pie tabisco. The “clapping rhythm” of this was one hand face down, other hand face up, while your partner did the opposite. Therefore, you were clapping with your partner but hands were vertical, not horizontal. Also, with the word tabisco you would take your right hand and make a motion like an up calling an out, thumb pointed over your shoulder and then down. I have NO idea why it was done this way, or what any of the words mean. However, it was something that definitely occupied time during recess for many years.

Hi. Growing up there were…

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Original author: Suzanne Harchik (sharchik) [e-mail]
 

Hi. Growing up there were 2 rhymes that started with “Miss Lucy”. One was “Miss Lucy had a steamboat. The steamboat had a bell.” and continued on from there. For kids growing up in the 70’s, it was a BIG deal to do this one, because the endings to all the lines were “dirty words” that were actually the first syllables to normal words that started off the next line. For instance, to finish the first verse and start the second one…”Miss Lucy went to Heaven and the steamboat went to Hell {end of verse 1} {start of verse 2} “O operator, please give me number 9.” Making it a very long-drawn out “Hello”. Again, very tame by today’s standards but back then, very risque. The OTHER Miss Lucy went, “Miss Lucy had a baby, she named it Tiny Tim. She put him in the bathtub to see if he could swim.” HOWEVER, I don’t remember the rest of this one. Does this sound familiar to anyone? If so, help would be appreciated.

Ok..here goes (hand-clapping)…

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Original author: Suzie Kusnetz [e-mail]
 

Ok..here goes (hand-clapping) I am a pretty little dutch girl as pretty, as pretty can be.. and all the boys around the block are crazy over me… My boyfriends name is Jello, he comes from Monticello- Witha pickle on his nose, and 2 dirty toes, and this is how the story goes: One day as I was walking, I heard my boyfriend talking…to a pretty little girl, with 2 blonde curls, and this is what he said to her: I L-O-V-E Love you I K-I-S-S Kiss you In the P-A-R-K park… In the D-A-R-K dark

Can anyone help me with…

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Original author: Gail Seeskin
 

Can anyone help me with the missing middle “verse”? We used to sing this in junior high, 1961-63.One girl would start by yelling out “flea”, we would then repeat what she said. flea, flea fly, flea fly flew, Vistay, Pamalama kumalama kumala vistay. Oh, no no no, not the vistay.Vistay.(verse I don’t remember)Achatacha Kumaracha ah-oo-ah-oo. Ishbibili oton doton bobo skadeetendatten Whatendaten, SHHH.

came across this site by…

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Original author: Anonymous
 

came across this site by accident while looking for hopscotch info. I had forgotten all about chinese ropes and will now be buying a bag of rubberbands as soon as poss so I can show my two young daughters how to play. I don’t recall singing rhymes but I do remember saying jump, split, jump etc as we crossed the ropes. We also used the rope as a simple jump strting at ankle height then ‘kneezies’, thighs, waist, underarm. not many girls got past that.

I grew up in the Inwood…

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Original author: R. Stein
 

I grew up in the Inwood section of upper Manhattan. One of the things only girls did with spaldeens was to bounce the ball while chanting certain rhymes, turning one leg over the bouncing ball on certain words. One of the rhymes went something like: Oliver Twist, can’t do this, touch his knee, touch his toe, (something something…) and over we go. You turned over on Twist, this and go. You’d touch your knee and toe where indicated. I can’t remember one of the lines. After you did this, you’d start all over, but this time you’d do everything twice: Oliver Twist Twist, etc. You’d go up until you gave up or got bored. Another bouncing game was A My Name Is Alice. You’d go through the alphabet: A my name is Alice, and my husband’s name is Al, and I come from Alabama, and I sell apples. Does anyone remember these games?

WOW, is this bringing back…

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Original author: Bonnie
 

WOW, is this bringing back some great memories. I am now on a mission to find the rhymes and games that went along with JACKS can anyone help me? email me at , please

—I can’t believe someone…

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Original author: mailboxe
 

—I can’t believe someone else on this planet knows that song! Could we have gone to school together? I tried to find out who wrote the lyrics on the rhyme and clap web site to no avail. I played that on the playground in the 4th grade in Alton, Il.—Kelly