Old School Nursery Rhymes

[PinkPotions]

My mum has recently adopted a little boy and we were talking about all the nursery rhymes she used to sing to me but we can hardly remember them now or at least we remember little pieces.

Do all you other geeks remember any in full... Please post

It would be nice for nostalgic reasons and also good for helping me sing to my new brother!

What was the full 'this old man he played...'

 

[Bagpuss]

me neither...i just got this little pig all wrong...:lol:

 

[PinkPotions]

This was my favourite!

Miss Molly Had a Dolly

Miss Molly had a dolly who was sick, sick sick, so she called for the doctor to come quick, quick, quick. The doctor came with his bag and his hat and he knocked on the door with a rat a tat tat. He looked at the dolly and shook his head. He said, "Miss Molly put her straight to bed". He wrote on a paper for a pill, pill, pill. "I'll be back in the morning with the bill, bill, bill".

 

[sodabubble]

nursery rhymes are cruel! drowning kitties, burning baby ladybirds.....they are all just wrong!

 

[Face Geek]

now i have found that these vary slightly from country to country, so keep that in mind but i googled it and found this:

This old man, he played one,
He played Nick Nack
On my drum!
Nick Nack Paddy Whack!
Give a dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played two,
He played Nick Nack
On my shoe!
Nick Nack Paddy Whack!
Give a dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played three,
He played Nick Nack
On my knee!
Nick Nack Paddy Whack!
Give a dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played four,
He played Nick Nack
On my door!
Nick Nack Paddy Whack!
Give a dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played five,
He played Nick Nack
On my tie!
Nick Nack Paddy Whack!
Give a dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played six,
He played Nick Nack
On my sticks!
Nick Nack Paddy Whack!
Give a dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played seven,
He played Nick Nack
On my heaven!
Nick Nack Paddy Whack!
Give a dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played eight,
He played Nick Nack
On my gate!
Nick Nack Paddy Whack!
Give a dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played nine,
He played Nick Nack
On my pine!
Nick Nack Paddy Whack!
Give a dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.

This old man, he played ten,
He played Nick Nack
On my pen!
Nick Nack Paddy Whack!
Give a dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.

 

[pure]

I've just done a google search and there are loads of nursery rhymes sites out there, some have downloadable music too!

 

[tonilee]

This one was my daughters favourite, its an old one with newer words!!!


Ba ba pink sheep have you any wool

yes sir yes sir 3 bags full

one for the squirrel
and one for the fox
and one for the little boy with holes in his socks!!!!

:lol:

 

[tonilee]

Wind the bobbin up
wind the bobbin up

pull pull clap clap clap

wind it back again wind it back again

pull pull clap clap clap

point to the ceiling
point to the floor
point to the window
point to the door


clap your hands together 123
put them back upon your knee!!

 

[tonilee]

When all the cows are sleeping

and tucked up in there beds

Up jumps the scarecrow and this is what he says

Im a dingle dangle scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat

I shake my hands like this and I shake my legs like that

Monkey BUsiness

5 little monekys bouncing on the ned, one fell off and bumped his head

one called the doctor and the doctor said......NO MORE MONKEY BUSINESS BOUNCING ON THE BED!!

4 little monekys bouncing on th bed (repeat until you get to 1)


speckled frogs

3 little speckled frogs

sat on a speckled log

eating some delicious bugs (yum yum)

one jumped into the pool

where it was nice and cool

now there were 2 green speckled frogs

2 little speckled frogs (until there are none left!!)

eeeeeeee I could go on all day!!!

 

[bubbabinks]

3 little monkeys jumping on the bed
one fell off and bumped his head
mummy phoned the doctor and the doctor said
No more monkeys jumping on the bed

You then sing same thing but with 2 monkeys and then 1 monkey.
Don't forget the hand actions like patting your head for the bumped and dialling a phone and shaking your finger for no more monkeys...:lol:

Zoom Zooom Zoom we're going to the moon
Zoom Zoom Zoom we'll be there very soon
5..4..3..2..1 Zoom (you have to lift them up to zoom them to the moon!)

 

[mercedes69]

Mum...
I'm unhappy...
there's something in my nappy...
long and brown...
it's weighing me down...
like a chucky eggy....
slipping down my leggy....
it's in my shoe...
a lump of....

That was what my eldest two used to sing....

My favourite was Wind the Bobbin Up....I've sang it to them all....

Plus I love...

In a house...
In a wood...
A little old man at the window stood...
Saw a rabbit passing by...
Knocking at the door...
Help me Help me Help me he said....
Or the hunter will shoot me dead...
Come little rabbit come with me...
Happy as can be....Awwwwwwwww

( you have to do the actions with this though )

Not really traditional nursery rhymes though are they?

 

[JessieBee]

Mum...
I'm unhappy...
there's something in my nappy...
long and brown...
it's weighing me down...
like a chucky eggy....
slipping down my leggy....
it's in my shoe...
a lump of....

That was what my eldest two used to sing....

PMSL I have never heard that before, that did make me chuckle

 

[JessieBee]

Now I don't know if this is quite right but here goes..

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pale of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown and jill came tumbling after
Up Jack got and home did trott as fast as he could caper
He went to bed to mend his head with vinegar and brown paper

Insy winsy spider?

Ride a cock horse (god I hope that's right lol)

Four and twenty blackbirds

I can't remember many of the old ones.

 

[Susie H]

Insy winsy spider climbed the water spout
down came the rain and washed poor insy out
out came the sun shine and dried up all the rain
insy winsy spider climbed up the spout again
has lots of hand actions to it to:lol:

 

[marioned]

For those who don't know -
Wind the bobbin up was a nursery rhyme to teach little children to get the winding action of winding the thread round the bobbins used in the mills, so that the could be used to help their parents work when they were still very young!

 

[Noodle]

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Baa Baa black sheep
Have you any wool?

Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full

One for the master,
One for the dame

And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane

 

[Peter Pan]

alot of these bring back memories of when i had emily - her favourites were "insy winsy spider" she done the hand movements to "down"

and "wind my bobbin up" - i love them, especially when the little uns are trying so hard to get the hand movements too

 

[PinkPotions]

Mum...
I'm unhappy...
there's something in my nappy...
long and brown...
it's weighing me down...
like a chucky eggy....
slipping down my leggy....
it's in my shoe...
a lump of....

Ha Ha i am so teaching him this it'll drive my mum nuts! Thank you Thank You Thank You

And thanks for all the rhymes this is a fab thread!

Pat a cake, pat a cake, bakers man
bake me a cake as fast as you can
fold it, and mold it and mark it with a B
and put it in the oven for baby and meeeeeee

 

[Noodle]

Twinkle, twinkle
Little Star

How I wonder,
Where you are

Up above the stars so high,
Like a diamond in the sky

Twinkle, twinkle
Little Star

How I wonder,
Where you are

 

[Lellipop]

Left right a peneth of tripe
I lost me wife on saturday night and where did you think I found her
In the lobby kissing the bobby with all the kids around her.

A rabbit has a button nose on this you can depend
because his little powder puff is down the other end.

The big ship sails on the ally-ally-oh
The ally-ally-oh, the ally-ally-oh
Oh, the big ship sails on the ally-ally-oh
On the last day of September.

Red sky at night,
Sailor's delight;
Red sky at morning,
Sailor's warning.


Some little mice
Sat in a barn to spin;
***** came by
And popped her head in;
"Shall I come in
And cut your threads off?"
"Oh, no, kind sir, you will snap our heads off!".