Re: [lace-chat] MORE Childhood Rhymes Chants
On 8/13/07 7:06 PM, Malvary J Cole wrote: She asked her mother, mother, mother For 50 cents, cents, cents To see the elephants, elephants, elephants Jump over the fence, fence, fence. Mom used to sing Oh, ASK your mother for fifty cents to see the elephant climb the fence the higher he climbs the more you can see of his stonishing powers! -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it was a lovely day for a long bike ride. So I took a short one. (Written Monday) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] MORE Childhood Rhymes Chants
Joy Malvary, This is getting really intriguing. For while I have never heard of either of your rhymes, the Australian version is obviously somehow a derivation. Ours went:- Ask your mother for sixpence To see the big giraffe With pimples on his whiskers, And pimples on his sK you mother for sixpence etc. That was the dirtiest joke I knew at Primary School :) - learned a few more later one David in Ballarat Oh, ASK your mother for fifty cents to see the elephant climb the fence the higher he climbs the more you can see of his stonishing powers! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] MORE Childhood Rhymes Chants
How about this: Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack All dressed in black, black, black With silver buttons, buttons, buttons All down her back, back, back. She asked her mother, mother, mother For 50 cents, cents, cents To see the elephants, elephants, elephants Jump over the fence, fence, fence. They jumped so high, high, high They reached the sky, sky, sky And they didn't come back, back, back 'Til the 4th of July, ly, ly! The wonders of Google!! Malvary in Ottawa (the Nation's capital), Canada - Original Message - From: H. Muth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 1:08 PM Subject: [lace-chat] MORE Childhood Rhymes Chants Hello all, No one has mentioned one I remember from my childhood (late 60's). This was a 'clapping' song - two girls faced one another and clapped their hands together, crossing arms etc in a pattern. The verse was: Miss Mary Mack, Mack Mack, Had silver buttons all down her back, back, back Unfortunately that is all that I can remember, but it had to have been at least half a century old at that time, because the sartorial detail would have be out of date by the twenties. Heather Abbotsford, BC I went to the Airshow on Friday with 7 teenage girls and got a sunburn! http://www.abbotsfordairshow.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] MORE Childhood Rhymes Chants
Hello all, No one has mentioned one I remember from my childhood (late 60's). This was a 'clapping' song - two girls faced one another and clapped their hands together, crossing arms etc in a pattern. The verse was: Miss Mary Mack, Mack Mack, Had silver buttons all down her back, back, back Unfortunately that is all that I can remember, but it had to have been at least half a century old at that time, because the sartorial detail would have be out of date by the twenties. Heather Abbotsford, BC I went to the Airshow on Friday with 7 teenage girls and got a sunburn! http://www.abbotsfordairshow.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] MORE Childhood Rhymes Chants
A clapping song that I remember; taught to me by my mother who knew it from her childhood, 1930s. My mother said, I never should, Play with the gypsies In the woods. If I did, She would say Naughty bad girl To disobey. Brenda On 12 Aug 2007, at 18:08, H. Muth wrote: No one has mentioned one I remember from my childhood (late 60's). This was a 'clapping' song - two girls faced one another and clapped their hands together, crossing arms etc in a pattern. The verse was: Miss Mary Mack, Mack Mack, Had silver buttons all down her back, back, back Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] MORE Childhood Rhymes Chants
Heather, No one has mentioned one I remember from my childhood (late 60's). This was a 'clapping' song - two girls faced one another and clapped their hands together, crossing arms etc in a pattern. The verse was: Miss Mary Mack, Mack Mack, Had silver buttons all down her back, back, back I do recall such games (and their were many) but not that rhyme at all Sorry David To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
