Posted in Playground rhymes, tagged buttons, Children, counting game, Kids, Lady Baby Gypsy Queen, Playground rhymes, School on 8 September, 2010| 8 Comments »
At least I'm not a tangerine. Not today, anyway!
My kids have come back from school at the beginning of the new term with a new counting rhyme. They count the buttons you have on your clothes and chant
Lady
Baby
Gypsy Queen
Elephant
Monkey
Tangerine
Then you are pronounced to be one of these. Today I am (thankfully) a Lady. Happy was declared to be a Monkey on the morning he left. Oddly accurate, these counting rhymes. What are you today?
Posted in Playground rhymes, School, tagged Children, Playground rhymes on 2 August, 2010| 3 Comments »
More than a year ago I blogged a video of the Queen and the Joker reciting one of their favourite playground rhymes. This has attracted a few comments both on the blog and on YouTube, so I thought I’d share another favourite Wolverhampton rhyme here.
Here they are reciting Ribena, Sassatina (full lyrics below the video). I’m not sure what it is with soft drinks. And what is Sassatina, anyway? And apologies for the Queen’s stripes/flowers combo. She has her own fashion sense…
Ribena (clap, clap,clap), sassatina (clap, clap,clap).
Big boy (clap, clap,clap), crazy girl (clap, clap,clap).
Ribena, sassatina.
Big boy, crazy girl.
Statue, baby.
Posted in Playground rhymes, tagged Children, Coca cola, Playground rhymes, Wolverhampton on 11 May, 2009| 24 Comments »
My kids have a strange but great selection of playground rhymes so I thought I’d share a few with you. They’ve learnt some new ones since we moved, but this is a Wolverhampton one.
So here are the Queen and the Joker reciting ‘Coca cola’ (lyrics below):
Coca cola, coca cola.
Alley alley pussy cat, alley alley pussy cat.
Coca cola, coca cola.
Alley alley pussy cat, alley alley pussy cat.
The boys got the muscles, the teacher can’t count
The girls got the sexy legs, you better watch out.
The boys go X X, the girls go ‘Whooo’
PS Please excuse me going ‘Go’ at the beginning – it’s the only way I could make sure they hadn’t launched their rhyme before I started recording.
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