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Radiana 08-27-2013 08:49 AM

Can you remember your jump rope songs from childhood?
 
Just wondering if you can share the jump rope songs from your childhood. If you have daughters who are in grade school it would be great to hear what they are singing while they jump rope.

I don't remember them exactly but here are a few from the 50's.

Ice cream soda, Delawarie punch, tell me the nitials of your honey bunch. ABCDE...........and so on.

Not last night but the night before, 24 gypsies came a knocking at the door ( it goes on but can't remember the rest )

California oranges, tap me on the back.

I don't even know if jump rope is still popular, I hope so.

missmay 08-27-2013 10:53 AM

Don't remember any of those songs, we did have some for when we jumped rope and also for double dutch jumping.

nyelphaba 08-27-2013 11:29 AM

We sang:
Lincoln, Lincoln, I been thinking
Whats that stuff that you been drinking?
Looks like water
Smells like wine-
Oh my gosh its turpentine !!

tessagin 08-27-2013 11:50 AM

I remember nyelphaba's. And that one about sitting in the tree Kissing. I just had a wet lunch with the Bailey's and get lost in conversation.

Radiana 08-27-2013 12:58 PM


Originally Posted by nyelphaba (Post 6258681)
We sang:
Lincoln, Lincoln, I been thinking
Whats that stuff that you been drinking?
Looks like water
Smells like wine-
Oh my gosh its turpentine !!

I remember that but here where I lived it started out with either Rueben Rueben or Ivan Ivan.

mrs. fitz 08-27-2013 01:13 PM

Lulu had a baby, his name was Tiny Tim; she put him in the bathtub to teach him how to swim.
He drank all the water, he ate all the soap, the next day he died with a bubble in his throat.
also.....
I won't go to Macy's any more, more, more
There's a big fat policeman at the door, door, door
He'll hit you with a (?????) and he'll make you pay a dollar
So I won't go to Macy's any more, more, more

mrs. fitz 08-27-2013 01:15 PM

The correct line just came to me -
"He'll grab you by the collar and he'll make you pay a dollar."

This was a long, long time ago, isn't it something how these things can come back if you think about them?

Radiana 08-27-2013 01:30 PM

Some of these I haven't heard at all, they're wonderful.

collector49 08-27-2013 01:34 PM

Rin Tin Tin swallowed a pin.
Went to the doctor, but he wasn't in.
Went to the nurse, she said a curse.
And that was the end of Rin Tin Tin.

Up North 08-27-2013 01:46 PM

Some of these I remember but here is a list
http://www.gameskidsplay.net/jump_rope_ryhmes/


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