The Peanut butter war

[Guest Anonymous]

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[Guest Anonymous]

You had it in the US as well, apparently:

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[Guest Anonymous]

Bless this kid's heart, he thinks it is new:

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[JesusFightClub]

Freejoytoo! Bringing back my childhood here!

I can't believe someone knows the cabbage song! I loved it too. We got to dress as cabbages for the school play and sing it. :)

I wonder if "See, see my baby" is this which we played at school, which I always found rather sinister. Our versions may vary.

See see my playmate

Come out and play with me

My dolly's got the flu

Chickenpox and measles too

Climb down the drainpipe

And through the cellar door

And we'll be jolly friends

For ever MORE! MORE! MORE!

I only remember the first two lines of "I went to a Chinese restaurant", what was your version? We had some quite startlingly racist ones too which I won't trouble FJ with, and also we were the only school I know of to sing "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a rotten cabbage" in the kissing song instead of the more traditional version ;) Too many cabbages, but then we were rural types.

[freejoytoo]

Ours was:

See see my baby

I cannot play with you

My sister's got the flu

Chickenpox and the measles too

Slide down the drainpipe

Slide down the banister

You'll be my best friend

For ever MORE! MORE! MORE!

From memory:

I went to a Chinese restaurant to buy a loaf of bread bread bread

He wrapped it up in a five pound note and this is what he said said said:

My name is...

Andy Pandy sugar and candy

Cinderalla dressed in yeller

Elvis Presely drinking Pepsi

Boys are ugly girls are sexy

Do me a favour - drop dead/push off!

Hence giving your clapping mate a big push!

I think there were more lyrics but I can't remember them very well!

Our school was a bit hippy, on the days we didn't sing hymns we sang Beatles songs and songs about the environment! Did you ever sing 'The Ghost of Tom'? That was a weird one.

[clibbyjo]

Freejoytoo! Bringing back my childhood here!

I can't believe someone knows the cabbage song! I loved it too. We got to dress as cabbages for the school play and sing it. :)

I wonder if "See, see my baby" is this which we played at school, which I always found rather sinister. Our versions may vary.

See see my playmate

Come out and play with me

My dolly's got the flu

Chickenpox and measles too

Climb down the drainpipe

And through the cellar door

And we'll be jolly friends

For ever MORE! MORE! MORE!

I only remember the first two lines of "I went to a Chinese restaurant", what was your version? We had some quite startlingly racist ones too which I won't trouble FJ with, and also we were the only school I know of to sing "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a rotten cabbage" in the kissing song instead of the more traditional version ;) Too many cabbages, but then we were rural types.

Our version:

Say say my playmate

Come out and play with me

And bring your dollies three

Climb up my apple tree

Slide down my rainbow

Into my cellar door

And we'll be jolly friends

Forever more, more, shut the door

[Guest Anonymous]

JFC: did you sing a song callse "La Cucaracha", but instead using the words "Maggie Thatcher" .... or am I too far before your time? :oops:

[JesusFightClub]

Well, "jelly/jello" and"piece/sandwich" will be our words for today. My kids love all those .

Piece here can also mean slang for gun or even like a disrespectful slang for a hookup/girlfrend.(like ,short for piece of ass).We won't be discussing that definition yet.

Clibbyjo, what sort of person in the US would say piece for gun? If you overheard someone say that, would you think they were a showoff, a scary person, it just sounded normal, or?

I knew the usage but when ever I have heard/seen people use it here it's (invariably English) people trying to sound like US gangsta, so it's a bit sad almost, because they are pretending to be something they aren't. But I don't know how it sounds where you are?

I don't have a huge amount of conversations about guns ;) but when I do I would just say gun, lol. I have a friend who was in the army, he will say the gun's type and its number (sorry terminology, I know nothing about guns!) Some other people say the manufacturer's name "they had Armalites" "she had a Kalashnikov" or whatever. But if I heard "He has his piece on him" I would think he brought his lunch :D

[emmiedahl]

I have heard many people refer to a gun as a 'piece'. It sounds a little faux-gangsta. Most people call them guns, or by the manufacturer name--my mom has a Ruger 9 mm and calls it her 'nine'.

eta if she called it her piece, I would laugh my ass off. She tends to use phrases she hears in rap, but they are so wrong coming from a hippie Jewish/Buddhist middle aged woman.

[ladypuglover]

I've heard piece used for guns too but for the life of me I can't think of it as being scary or crazy as when it was said it was said in a normal voice.

Back off topic of the songs but strangly still on topic, does anyone remember the most hated song of long road trips?

I found a peanut, I found a peanut, I found a peanut just now.

I cracked it open, I cracked it open, I cracked it open just now.

I was rotten, it was rotten, it was rotten just now.

So I ate it, so I ate it, so I ate it just now.

And so and so until you die and go to heaven, hell and who knows where.

There is another song we used to sing in girl scout that goes on for freaking forever but I will have to call some other leaders to see if they can remember it as my mind has blocked it out for sanity reasons.

Oh and a shout out to other cub scouts. Anyone remember this?

Annoucement song

Announcements, announcements, announcements!

What a terrible way to die,

A terrible way to die,

A terrible way to be talked to death.

A terrible way to die.

Announcements, announcements, announcements!

(London Bridge)

Make the announcements short and sweet,

Short and sweet,

Short and sweet.

Make the announcemnts short and sweet,

They're so BORING!

Announcements, announcements, announcements!

(Ever Seen a Windmill)

Have you ever seen a windbag,

A windbag, a windbag?

Have you ever seen a windbag?

Well, there's one right now.

Swings this way and that way,

And this way and that way,

Have you ever seen a windbag?

Well there's one RIGHT NOW!

Announcements, announcements, announcements!

(Freres Jaques)

Words of wisdom,

Words of wisdom.

Here they come,

Here they come.

Boring words of wisdom,

Boring words of wisdom.

Dum, dum, dum,

Dum, dum, dum.

Announcements, announcements, announcements!

(What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor)

What do you do with a loud Cubmaster?

What do you do with a loud Cubmaster?

What do you do with a loud Cubmaster,

Early in the evening?

Hit him in the face with a chocolate cream pie!

Hit him in the face with a chocolate cream pie!

Hit him in the face with a chocolate cream pie,

Early in the evening!

Announcements, announcements, announcements!

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream

Throw the announcements overboard and listen to them scream.

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream.

Ha Ha! Fooled you,

I'm a submarine.

Announcements, announcements, announcements!

The man stood up to talk.

He talked real long and hard.

He talked so long I wrote this song,

On the lid of a can of lard!

He's got something to say.

I'm sure it must be good.

But if he talks too long today,

we'll leave its understood.

Announcements, announcements, announcements!

We've got a silly cheer,

That you've just got to hear!

It makes no sense we're sure you know,

The announcements have to GO!

I lost my cow, I lost my cow and have no time for your bull now.

I found my cow, I found my cow and have time for your bull now.

SPEAK FREAK!

[freejoytoo]

The road song I remember was Ten Green Bottles! I think America's version is Ten Bottles of Beer to a different tune.

[JesusFightClub]

JFC: did you sing a song callse "La Cucaracha", but instead using the words "Maggie Thatcher" .... or am I too far before your time? :oops:

Anniec, I don't remember this but it doesn't mean no! I am remembering loads more stuff as I read this thread.

Hadn't realised "see see" was so global! What counting games did you play, like "eeny meeny miny mo". We always sang "catch a TIGER by the toe" and if the teacher did it she would make a growly face at that point. I can remember how amazed I was when I suggested for a laugh we decided something in a meeting by "eeny meeny" and was roundly told off for racism.

[slickcat79]

Our version:

Say say my playmate

Come out and play with me

And bring your dollies three

Climb up my apple tree

Slide down my rainbow

Into my cellar door

And we'll be jolly friends

Forever more, more, shut the door

Was that the theme song to something? A cartoon/kids show/commercial or something like that? I don't ever remember singing it or knowing it, but it's now running through my head with musical accompaniment :?

[freejoytoo]

I heard tiger was substituted for the n word to stop it being racist!

Did anyone ever sing this for counting out in games?

There's a party on the hill would you like to come

Bring your own iced tea and your own cream bun.

Who is your best friend?

(This is directed at whoever's hand this points at, and then they say their best friend's name, say Alice).

Alice will be there with her knickers in the air

Shouting O-U-T spells out!

[freejoytoo]

I heard tiger was substituted for the n word to stop it being racist! I keep remembering snippets of songs and rhymes but not enough to type them out!

Did anyone ever sing this for counting out in games?

There's a party on the hill would you like to come

Bring your own iced tea and your own cream bun.

Who is your best friend?

(This is directed at whoever's hand this points at, and then they say their best friend's name, say Alice).

Alice will be there with her knickers in the air

Shouting O-U-T spells out!

We had some er, ruder songs but I won't share! :D

[JesusFightClub]

The road song I remember was Ten Green Bottles! I think America's version is Ten Bottles of Beer to a different tune.

We had (imagine all these songs getting louder and LOUDER ;) )

"The back o the bus they cannae sing, they cannae sing, they cannae sing, they cannae sing. The back o the bus they cannae sing, they cannae sing for PEANUTS."

Followed in retaliation with "The front o the bus they cannae sing..." :D

And the ever popular

Stop the bus I need a wee wee

Stop the bus I need a wee wee

Stop the bus I need a wee wee

A wee, wee drink o juice!

[Guest Anonymous]

What counting games did you play, like "eeny meeny miny mo". We always sang "catch a TIGER by the toe" and if the teacher did it she would make a growly face at that point. I can remember how amazed I was when I suggested for a laugh we decided something in a meeting by "eeny meeny" and was roundly told off for racism.

I've been told off for 'racism' too.... but ours was:

Eeny Meeny Miny Mo

Put the baby on the po

When he's done

Wipe his bum

Eeny Meeny Miny Mo

:lol:

[freejoytoo]

We had:

Everywhere we go, everywhere we go

People always ask us, people always ask us,

Who we are, who we are,

And where we come from, and where we come from

So we tell them, so we tell them

We're from (my city), we're from X,

And if they don't HEAR US, and if they don't HEAR US,

WE'LL SHOUT A LITTLE LOUDER, WE'LL SHOUT A LITTLE LOUDER!

And there was the awful,

I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves,

I know a song that will get on your nerves and this is how it goes!

Ten Green Bottles goes:

Ten green bottles hanging on the wall,

Ten green bottles hanging on the wall,

And if one green bottle should accidentally fall

There'll be nine green bottles hanging on the wall.

Some people sang it with a thousand green bottles - you can imagine how that would get after a while!

Repeat both endlessly!

[ladypuglover]

The road song I remember was Ten Green Bottles! I think America's version is Ten Bottles of Beer to a different tune.

Ours was 99 bottles of beer on the wall.

99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer.

Take one down and pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall.

98 bottles of beer on the wall, 98 bottles of beer.

Take one down and pass it around, 97 bottles of beer on the wall.

And so on.

[freejoytoo]

Double post!

[Rachel333]

I didn't realize that "tiger" was a substitute for the n-word. :? I learned it as "catch an Indian", and my mom had us switch to tiger for obvious reasons.

[clibbyjo]

I have heard many people refer to a gun as a 'piece'. It sounds a little faux-gangsta. Most people call them guns, or by the manufacturer name--my mom has a Ruger 9 mm and calls it her 'nine'.

eta if she called it her piece, I would laugh my ass off. She tends to use phrases she hears in rap, but they are so wrong coming from a hippie Jewish/Buddhist middle aged woman.

Yeah, totally faux-gangsta or maybe acceptable if two cops were talking or something they might use "piece" and its normal for them. Regular people would say gun or maybe the nickname "mag" for a magnum or just" 22" something like that .

I just asked my son who is a gun expert and he looked at me in pity that I didn't know any other gun names. :clap: He said he calls guns by their full and proper name, but I think he is just a weirdo and most people would not.

[emmiedahl]

Anniec, I don't remember this but it doesn't mean no! I am remembering loads more stuff as I read this thread.

Hadn't realised "see see" was so global! What counting games did you play, like "eeny meeny miny mo". We always sang "catch a TIGER by the toe" and if the teacher did it she would make a growly face at that point. I can remember how amazed I was when I suggested for a laugh we decided something in a meeting by "eeny meeny" and was roundly told off for racism.

We always said "catch a tiger by the toe". It was not until adulthood when someone told me about the original.

We also counted off with "Ink-a-bink, a bottle of ink", any one remember that?

[CynicMom]

Mrs. Suzie had a steamboat

the steamboat had a bell [ding ding]

Mrs. Suzie went to heaven

the steamboat went to

HELLo operator, give me number 9

and if you disconnect me I'll kick you in your

BEHIND the 'frigerator there was a piece of glass

Mrs. Suzie sat upon it and broke her little

ASk me no more questions I'll tell you no more lies

the boys are in the bathroom, making chocolate PIES.

With accompanying hand-slap-game, of course. : )

[aubrietta]

I didn't realize that "tiger" was a substitute for the n-word. :? I learned it as "catch an Indian", and my mom had us switch to tiger for obvious reasons.

I suddenly recalled coming home from the park after learning that rhyme at age six or seven and being told by my mother that the kids "had the words wrong" and it actually went

"eeny, meeny, miney moe,

catch a tiny by the toe,

if he hollers, let him go,

eeny meeny miney moe"