Silly Childhood Sayings or Rhymes

Paladin1950

Paladin1950

Still love 50's & 60's music!
Location
Mohawk Valley, NY
Here's one from the mind of a silly 7 or 8 year old:

Fatty and skinny laying in bed.
Fatty rolls over and skinny is dead.

A take off of that old Paul Revere poem:

Listen my children and you shall hear,
Of the midnight run of Paul Revere,
Under the blankets, and under the sheets,
And the 50 yard dash to the toilet seat.

This one was inspired from some lines of an old 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone (Mr. Denton on Doomsday). It was the 3rd episode ever aired. When I went to school the next day, some boys had their own version of the lines:

How dry I am,
How wet I'll be,
If I don't find,
The bathroom key.
 

Three Jolly old bums
Three Jolly old bums
Three Jolly old bums are we
We hang around the Jolly old town as happy as can be

The other night we met a man we never met before
He asked us if we wanted a job shovelling iron ore
We asked him, what the wages were
He said 10 cents a ton
We said oh brother oh mister
We’d rather be on the bum
Shootin’ sticks and stokies
Hi diddly dum
Sleeping in the boxcars
Having a lot of fun

We woke up in the morning
And gazed upon the wall
The bedbugs and the roaches
We’re having a game of ball
The score was 19 20
The bedbugs were ahead
The roaches hit a home run
And knocked us out of bed

We went downstairs for breakfast
The bread was hard and stale
The coffee taste like tobacco juice
The kind you get in jail
 
Girls and boys
Come out to play
The moon does shine
As bright as day
Come with a whoop
And come with a call
Come with a good will
Or not at all

Loose your supper,
And loose your sleep,
Come to your playfellows
In the street
Up the ladder
And down the wall
A halfpenny loaf
Will serve us all.

But when the loaf is gone,
What will you do?
Those who would eat
Must work, it is true
You'll find milk
And I'll find flour
And we'll have pudding
In half an hour

Girls and boys
Come out to play
The moon does shine
As bright as day
Come with a whoop
And come with a call
Come with a good will or not at all.
 
On Top Of Spaghetti

On top of spaghetti,
all covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball,
when somebody sneezed.

It rolled off the table,
and on to the floor,
and then my poor meatball,
rolled out of the door.

It rolled into the garden,
and under a bush,
and then my poor meatball,
was nothing but mush.

The mush was as tasty
as tasty could be,
and then the next summer,
it grew into a tree.
The tree was all covered,
all covered with moss,
and on it grew meatballs,
and tomato sauce.

So if you eat spaghetti,
all covered with cheese,
hold onto your meatball,
whenever you sneeze. 😊

Bella ✌️
 
My mother and your mother
Were hanging out clothes.
My mother hit your mother
Right in the nose.
What color was the blood?
(Red)
R…E…D spells “red,” and
Out you do go!

(A ditty used to cast or sort players out, with the one remaining being “it“ for a game.)
 
Whistle while you work
Snow-white made a shirt
Sneezy wore it
Grumpy tore it
Dopey made it worse..
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