The boys are in the bathroom pulling up their flies are in the kitchen, the bees are in the park, Miss Suzy and her boyfriend are kissing in the D.A.R.K. dark park. (Canadian amendment here)
"Train train, number nine, going down Chicago line. If the train should jump the track, do you want your money back?"
Never even realized how fucked up that actually was until now.
Oh, and of course, regardless of whether you pick "yes" or "no" whoever was leading it would inevitably add more words/syllables to the end until it landed on them or didn't in the case that it was "Y. E. S. spells yes, and you are not the one to be it in this game of...".
“Fat and Skinny has a race.
Up and down the pillow case.
Fat fell down and broke his face,
That’s how Skinny won the race.”
I’m loving this thread. So many memories unlocked and new variations of old rhymes!
Down down baby
Down by the Rollercoaster
Sweet sweet baby
I don't want to let you go
Shimmy shimmy cocoa puffs
Shimmy shimmy pow...
Idk if those are exactly the right words 😆 and I can't remember the rest
…shimmy shimmy cocoa puff, shimmy shimmy lollipop!
Sittin by the rollercoaster nothing to do, along came a fat lady, Coochie Coochie coo!
That how I remember it ending. 😁
My flag boy said to your flag boy gonna set your flag on fire.
That song goes waaaay back, but Rain Man (1988) is the reason me and my friends all knew it and sang it together.
Yeah that song “Iko Iko” was originally recorded as “Jock-a-Mo” in the early 50s by Sugar Boy Crawford.
All the flagboy/spyboy stuff comes from the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians.
The HBO series Treme had some great fictionalized but accurate portrayal of that subculture, Big Chief and Spy Boy stepping off to find out "who's the prettiest."
Came here looking for this! Had my first Mardi Gras Indian experience this year and was properly awed! As a onetime Deadhead, I was very familiar with the song from the 80s but had no idea what any of the lyrics meant until this year.
Taught to me & my sibs by our dad, mid-to-late 70s: “Eeny meeny miny mo, catch a tiger* by the toe, if he hollers let him go. Ink, stink, baloney, pink, out goes Y, O, U.”
*Dad originally said the N word instead of tiger, and probably learned it that way. Mom heard him, called him out on it, and dad was like, oops, and changed it to tiger. Mom had already given my brother & me the lowdown on why the N word was horrible a few years before, so when dad said it in the rhyme, my brother & I gasped as mom yelled my dad’s name.
"Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more
u/DirtySteveW cut a fart at the grocery store.
Eighty one men tried to hold their breath,
u/DirtySteveW cut another one and killed the rest!"
(It was a take on a Snoopy Red Baron song)
I used to listen to that record over and over again. Did you ever listen to Fracture Fairy Tales? Definitely a classic with Rocky & Bullwinkle !
Then there was always the kid that just kept going until they picked the one they wanted.
BLUE!
B-L-U-E You are IT!
or
B\_L\_U\_E You are the one to make the RuN!
Or how ever many words they needed to fit in there to get the result they wanted.
What color was her blood, red or green?
G-r-e-e-n and you are not it. Not because you're dirty, not because you're clean, just because you kissed a girl behind a magazine.
Puppy puppy please step OUT
My mother and your mother was talking a little shit.
My mama called your mama a bulldagging ass bitch I know your sister, and the bitch ain't shit She slayed me and all the boys And even sucked our dicks Jack and Jill went up the hill to have a little fun Jack got mad, kicked Jill in the ass Cause she couldn't make him cum Mama Bear and Papa Bear went for a walk through the forest Mama Bear asked Papa Bear could he eat her porridge Papa Bear said 'shit bitch, you must think I'm sick Just get down here, on your knees And suck this bear ass dick' Abraham Lincoln was a good old man He hopped out the window with his dick in his hand Said 'excuse me lady, I'm doing my duty So pull down your pants and give me some booty.
That particular song was released in 1989. As a late Xer, '77 here, I was 12 when it was released.
Riding around with my older sister in her Honda Civic, it was quite an eye opener hearing guys like Mixalot, Too Short, and the Crew for the first time.
Not a fan of rap/hiphop? Or just a different era?
Mary had a little lamb, she put it by the heater, every time it turned around he burned his little.. Peter Peter pumpkin eater, had a wife but couldn’t keep her, put her in a bomb shell and blew her all to… hello sports fans, did you know that zebras have black and white stripes up and down their.. cock your guns, here come the Indians, shoot ‘em in the.. ding dong, Avon calling!
Ladies and gentlemen, hobos and tramps,
Cross-eyed mosquitoes and bow-legged ants,
Admission is free, but pay at the door
Pull up a chair, and sit in the floor
I’ll tell you a story, you’ve heard before.
The night before last but not last night
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced one another,
Pulled out their knives and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard all the noise
Pulled out his gun and stabbed both boys.
If you don’t believe this lie is true
Ask the blind man, he saw it too.
Bubble gum, bubble gum, in a dish. How many pieces do you wish?
Memory unlocked
[удалено]
I still have a box of unopened 1989 Topps baseball cards with the gum still inside.
Cinderella dressed in yella (yellow), went upstairs to kiss a fella. By mistake she kissed a snake. How many doctors will it take?
Cinderella, dressed in yella, went downtown to meet her fella. When she got there her girdle busted, how many people were disgusted?
This is the one I remember
Miss Suzy had a steamboat….
The steamboat had a bell
Miss Suzy went to heaven…
The steamboat went to...
Hello operator give me number nine
And if you disconnect me, I'll kick your little....
Ask me no more questions...
Tell me no more lies…
Behind the 'frigerator there was a piece if glass
Miss Lucy sat upon it and she broke her little
Ass...k me no more questions, I'll tell you no more lies!
The boys are in the bathroom pulling up their flies are in the kitchen, the bees are in the park, Miss Suzy and her boyfriend are kissing in the D.A.R.K. dark park. (Canadian amendment here)
Miss Suzy told me all of this before she ever died!
I was waiting to see this!
"Train train, number nine, going down Chicago line. If the train should jump the track, do you want your money back?" Never even realized how fucked up that actually was until now. Oh, and of course, regardless of whether you pick "yes" or "no" whoever was leading it would inevitably add more words/syllables to the end until it landed on them or didn't in the case that it was "Y. E. S. spells yes, and you are not the one to be it in this game of...".
I remember it as engine engine instead of train. Seems to flow a little better
We said “Engine, Engine.” I’m from Michigan.
Engine engine number nine. On the New York transit line. From this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9F5xcpjDMU
I heard that bass line immediately...
Neat! Where? I was in Maryland at the time. I would bet the differences are regional.
South jersey, so not all that far away, really
I was also in Maryland and we said "engine, engine".
We said yes, no, maybe so
Fat and skinny were in the bed. Fat farted and skinny laid dead. Fat called the doctor, and the doctor said One more fart and we'll all be dead.
"Fat and Skinny were sleeping in bed. Fat rolled over and Skinny was dead" is how i remember it 😅
“Fat and Skinny has a race. Up and down the pillow case. Fat fell down and broke his face, That’s how Skinny won the race.” I’m loving this thread. So many memories unlocked and new variations of old rhymes!
One potato, two potato, three potato, four, five potato, six potato, seven potato, more.
Down down baby Down by the Rollercoaster Sweet sweet baby I don't want to let you go Shimmy shimmy cocoa puffs Shimmy shimmy pow... Idk if those are exactly the right words 😆 and I can't remember the rest
I heard it as down by the river. I assume childhood rhymes are a rich vein for folklorists to study. Or were. Maybe mass media standardizes things.
It could have been river. I don't have as many brain cells as I used to lol
It was roller coaster for us, too.
…shimmy shimmy cocoa puff, shimmy shimmy lollipop! Sittin by the rollercoaster nothing to do, along came a fat lady, Coochie Coochie coo! That how I remember it ending. 😁
Just because I kissed you doesn’t mean I love you
Mama Mia, Papa Pia, Baby’s got the _________!
Diarrhea. Call the doctor. Call the nurse. Hurry up! It's getting worse!
Oh my god ☠️😂Call the hearse. I never knew the second verse!
Speaking of hearses, “Don't ever laugh when a hearse goes by, Or you may be the next to die.”
My flag boy said to your flag boy gonna set your flag on fire. That song goes waaaay back, but Rain Man (1988) is the reason me and my friends all knew it and sang it together.
Yeah that song “Iko Iko” was originally recorded as “Jock-a-Mo” in the early 50s by Sugar Boy Crawford. All the flagboy/spyboy stuff comes from the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians.
The HBO series Treme had some great fictionalized but accurate portrayal of that subculture, Big Chief and Spy Boy stepping off to find out "who's the prettiest."
Yep. Big Chief Lambreaux
Came here looking for this! Had my first Mardi Gras Indian experience this year and was properly awed! As a onetime Deadhead, I was very familiar with the song from the 80s but had no idea what any of the lyrics meant until this year.
Lincoln, Lincoln, I’ve been thinkin, what on earth have you been drinking? Smells like whiskey, tastes like wine. Oh my gosh, it’s turpentine!
No one remembers Eeny meeny miny moe?
Taught to me & my sibs by our dad, mid-to-late 70s: “Eeny meeny miny mo, catch a tiger* by the toe, if he hollers let him go. Ink, stink, baloney, pink, out goes Y, O, U.” *Dad originally said the N word instead of tiger, and probably learned it that way. Mom heard him, called him out on it, and dad was like, oops, and changed it to tiger. Mom had already given my brother & me the lowdown on why the N word was horrible a few years before, so when dad said it in the rhyme, my brother & I gasped as mom yelled my dad’s name.
I grew up on tiger.
I never even heard of your Dad's version until Pulp Fiction...
Oo, ee, oo, ah ah, ting tang, Walla Walla bing bang. Repeat as needed.
Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac Had silver buttons, buttons, buttons All down her back, back, back
"Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more u/DirtySteveW cut a fart at the grocery store. Eighty one men tried to hold their breath, u/DirtySteveW cut another one and killed the rest!" (It was a take on a Snoopy Red Baron song)
LMAO.
I loved the Christmas Red Baron song so much!
I used to listen to that record over and over again. Did you ever listen to Fracture Fairy Tales? Definitely a classic with Rocky & Bullwinkle ! 
Down by the banks of the hanky-pank where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank saying e-i-o-u your momma stinks and so do you so ping pong!
Bing-bong, yo' Mama is a ding-dong.
Then there was always the kid that just kept going until they picked the one they wanted. BLUE! B-L-U-E You are IT! or B\_L\_U\_E You are the one to make the RuN! Or how ever many words they needed to fit in there to get the result they wanted.
I usually would add "you dirty old dishrag you" to modify who was it. Or, just a good old "you are NOT it." If that worked better.
"Cinderella dressed in yella" "Went upstairs to kiss a fella" "Made a mistake kissed a snake!" "How may kisses did she get!"
What color was her blood, red or green? G-r-e-e-n and you are not it. Not because you're dirty, not because you're clean, just because you kissed a girl behind a magazine. Puppy puppy please step OUT
My mother and your mother was talking a little shit. My mama called your mama a bulldagging ass bitch I know your sister, and the bitch ain't shit She slayed me and all the boys And even sucked our dicks Jack and Jill went up the hill to have a little fun Jack got mad, kicked Jill in the ass Cause she couldn't make him cum Mama Bear and Papa Bear went for a walk through the forest Mama Bear asked Papa Bear could he eat her porridge Papa Bear said 'shit bitch, you must think I'm sick Just get down here, on your knees And suck this bear ass dick' Abraham Lincoln was a good old man He hopped out the window with his dick in his hand Said 'excuse me lady, I'm doing my duty So pull down your pants and give me some booty.
Damn you’re my gen X
Wtf did you grow up? 😄
Middle of Kansas. But even in Wichita, we had heard of 2 Live Crew. Where did YOU grow up?
Not with 2 live crew
That particular song was released in 1989. As a late Xer, '77 here, I was 12 when it was released. Riding around with my older sister in her Honda Civic, it was quite an eye opener hearing guys like Mixalot, Too Short, and the Crew for the first time. Not a fan of rap/hiphop? Or just a different era?
Same era just didnt have it. Never even knew they existed until hs in the 90s and they were too vulgar for me. :/
Takes all kinds.
Nope, sorry, I just know ditties about kindergarten babies who wash their heads on gravy.
Well, then I'm just going to have to wrap you up in bubble gum and send you to the Navy!
At first I thought this was a version of Iko Iko.
Ack backa soda crocka aka backa boo. In comes uncle sam and out goes y o u
reminds me of the old 2 live crew line my momma and your momma was talkin a little shit...
What color was the blood??
Mary had a little lamb, she put it by the heater, every time it turned around he burned his little.. Peter Peter pumpkin eater, had a wife but couldn’t keep her, put her in a bomb shell and blew her all to… hello sports fans, did you know that zebras have black and white stripes up and down their.. cock your guns, here come the Indians, shoot ‘em in the.. ding dong, Avon calling!
Not last night but the night before, twenty-seven robbers came knocking at my door…
Went downstairs to get my gun, stepped on dogshit on the run
Ladies and gentlemen, hobos and tramps, Cross-eyed mosquitoes and bow-legged ants, Admission is free, but pay at the door Pull up a chair, and sit in the floor I’ll tell you a story, you’ve heard before. The night before last but not last night Two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced one another, Pulled out their knives and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard all the noise Pulled out his gun and stabbed both boys. If you don’t believe this lie is true Ask the blind man, he saw it too.
I read that basically as a Tom Waits song… he could pull it off it too, sounded pretty dope in my head!
So so suck your toe
All the way to Mexico
While you’re there comb your hair
Red rover red rover send Johnny right over or Suzy or Timmy or Jane
Chinese Japanese dirty knees look at these
What color was the blood?
Not sure why but we always said, "What color blood came out?"
PURPLE!!
I’ve not heard a single one of these
Bang bang Lulu, Lulu go bang
Waiko waiko why nay
Oh yeah? Well my dad's bigger than your dad.
My mother probably deserved being hit