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List Of Playground Songs
This is a list of English-language playground songs. Playground songs are often rhymed lyrics that are sung. Most do not have clear origin, were invented by children and spread through their interactions such as on playgrounds. List * "99 Bottles of Beer" * " Baby Bumblebee" * " The Burning of the School" *"Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees" * "Circle Circle Dot Dot" * "Comet" * "Do-Re-Mi" * "Five Little Ducks" * " Five Little Monkeys" * "Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts" * "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" * "Horsey Horsey" * "If You're Happy and You Know It" * "I'm a Little Teapot" * " K-I-S-S-I-N-G" * " Jingle Bells Batman Smells" * "London Bridge Is Falling Down" * " London's Burning" * " Michael Finnegan" * "Miss Susie" * " My Ding-a-Ling" * "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" * " One, Two, Three, Four, Five" * "On Top of Old Smokey" * "Fast Food Song" (a song using the names of several fast food franchises) * " Popeye the Sailor Man" (theme song from the 20th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Row Your Boat
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Jingle Bells
"Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and most commonly sung American songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and published under the title "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in September 1857. It has been claimed that it was originally written to be sung by a Sunday school choir for Thanksgiving, or as a drinking song. Although it has no original connection to Christmas, it became associated with winter and Christmas music in the 1860s and 1870s, and it was featured in a variety of parlor song and college anthologies in the 1880s. It was first recorded in 1889 on an Edison cylinder; this recording, believed to be the first Christmas record, is lost, but an 1898 recording also from Edison Records survives. History Composition James Lord Pierpont who was the uncle of JP Morgan, wrote "One Horse Open Sleigh" in 1857 and claimed to be a drinking song (it was always performed in blackface) It didn't become a Christmas song until decades after it was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Lion Woman
"Sea Lion Woman" (also "Sealion Woman", "Sea-Line Woman", "See heLyin' Woman", "She Lyin' Woman", "See-Line Woman", or "C-Line Woman") is a traditional African American folk song originally used as a children's playground song. History The song was first recorded by folklore researcher Herbert Halpert on May 13, 1939. Halpert was compiling a series of field recordings for the Library of Congress in Byhalia, MS, when he ran across Walter Shipp, a minister, and his wife Mary, a choir director of a local church. Halpert recorded Shipp's daughters, Katherine and Christine, singing a spare version of "Sea Lion Woman" that defined the basic rhymes and rhythm of the song. The exact origins of the song are unknown but it is believed to have originated in the southern United States. According to Tom Schnabel of KCRW, he was told that Nina Simone's "See-line Woman" was a 19th-century seaport song about sailors coming into port (e.g. Charleston or New Orleans) and prostitutes waiting for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
"Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is an English language nursery rhyme and a popular children's song, often sung in a round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19236. Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album ''101 Gang Songs'' (1961). Crosby also used the song as part of a round with his family during his concert at the London Palladium in 1976. The performance was captured on the album '' Bing Crosby Live at the London Palladium''. Lyrics The most common modern version is often sung as a round for up to four voice parts (). A possible arrangement for SATB is as follows: : The text above is often sung multiple times in succession to allow for the different voices to interweave with each other, forming four-part harmony. Melody \relative c' \addlyrics Origins The earliest printing of the song is from 1852, when the lyrics were published with similar lyrics to those used today, but with a very different tune. It was reprinted again two years later with the sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ring Around The Rosie
"Ring a Ring o' Roses", "Ring a Ring o' Rosie", or (in the United States) "Ring Around the Rosie", is a traditional nursery rhyme, folk song and playground singing game. Descriptions first emerge in the mid-19th century, but are reported as dating from decades before, and similar rhymes are known from across Europe. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7925. The lyrics vary, but a modern interpretation based on modern lyrics that related the words to the plague in England became widespread post-WWII, even though it appears to be a false folk etymology. Lyrics It is unknown what the earliest wording of the rhyme was or when it began. Many versions of the game have a group of children form a ring, dance in a circle around a person, and stoop or curtsy with the final line. The slowest child to do so is faced with a penalty or becomes the "rosie" (literally: rose tree, from the French ''rosier'') and takes their place in the center of the ring. Common British versions includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popeye The Sailor Man
Popeye the Sailor Man is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar.Segar, Elzie (Crisler) – Encyclopædia Britannica Article Britannica.com. Retrieved on March 29, 2013.Goulart, Ron, "Popeye", ''St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture''. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. (Volume 4, pp. 87-8).Walker, Brian. ''The Comics: The Complete Collection''. New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2011. (pp. 188-9,191, 238-243) The character first appeared in the daily comic strip '' |
Fast Food Song
"Fast Food Song" is a song made famous by British-based band Fast Food Rockers, although it existed long before they recorded it, as a popular children's playground song. The chorus is based on the Moroccan folk tune "A Ram Sam Sam" and mentions fast food restaurants McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut. The song was released on 16 June 2003 as the lead single from their album ''It's Never Easy Being Cheesy''. The song was highly successful in the United Kingdom, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart and number one on the Scottish Singles Chart. The song also achieved minor chart success worldwide and reached number 24 on the Irish Charts and number 56 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. The song was co-written and produced by Mike Stock. The band are widely considered to be a one-hit wonder, though their two follow up singles " Say Cheese (Smile Please)" and "I Love Christmas" both achieved moderate success in the UK Singles Chart, reaching numbers 10 and 25, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Top Of Old Smokey
"On Top of Old Smoky" (often spelled "Smokey") is a traditional folk song of the United States. As recorded by The Weavers, the song reached the pop music charts in 1951. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 414. History as folk song It is unclear when, where and by whom the song was first sung. In historical times folksongs were the informal property of the communities that sang them, passed down through generations. They were published only when a curious person took the trouble to visit singers and document their songs, an activity that in America began only around the turn of the 20th century. For this reason it is unlikely that an originator of "On Top of Old Smoky" could ever be identified. One of the earliest versions of "On Top of Old Smoky" to be recorded in fieldwork was written down by the English folklorist Cecil Sharp, who during the First World War made three summer field trips to the Appalachian Mountains seeking folk songs, accompanied and assisted by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One, Two, Three, Four, Five
"One, Two, Three, Four, Five" (also known as "1, 2, 3, 4, 5" or "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I Caught a Fish Alive" in other versions) is a nursery rhyme and counting-out rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13530. Text and melody A common modern version is: One, two, three, four, five, Once I caught a fish alive. Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Then I let it go again. Why did you let it go? Because he bit my finger so. Which finger did it bite? This little finger on my right. Origin This is one of many counting-out rhymes. It was first recorded in ''Mother Goose's Melody'' around 1765. Like most versions until the late 19th century, it had only the first stanza and dealt with a hare, not a fish, with the words: :One, two, three, four and five, :I caught a hare alive; :Six, seven, eight, nine and ten, :I let him go again. The modern version is derived from three variations collected by Henry Bolton in the 1880s from America. See also *List of nursery rhymes The term " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" is a popular English language nursery rhyme and counting-out rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11284. Lyrics A common version is given in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes'': :One, two, buckle my shoe; :Three, four, knock at the door; :Five, six, pick up sticks; :Seven, eight, lay them straight; :Nine, ten, a big fat hen; :Eleven, twelve, dig and delve; :Thirteen, fourteen, maids a-courting; :Fifteen, sixteen, maids in the kitchen; :Seventeen, eighteen, maids in waiting; :Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty. I. Opie and P. Opie, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes'' (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 333-4. Other sources give differing lyrics. Origins and meaning The rhyme is one of many counting-out rhymes. It was first recorded in ''Songs for the Nursery'', published in London in 1805. This version differed beyond the number twelve, with the lyrics: :Thirteen, fourteen, draw the curtain, :Fifteen sixte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Ding-a-Ling
"My Ding-a-Ling" is a novelty song written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew. It was covered by Chuck Berry in 1972 and became his only number-one Billboard Hot 100 single in the United States. Later that year, in a much, much longer unedited form, it was included on the album '' The London Chuck Berry Sessions''. Guitarist Onnie McIntyre and drummer Robbie McIntosh who later that year went on to form the Average White Band, played on the single along with Nic Potter of Van der Graaf Generator on bass. "My Ding-a-Ling" was originally recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952 for King Records. When Bartholomew moved to Imperial Records, he re-recorded the song under the new title, "Little Girl Sing Ting-a-Ling". In 1954, the Bees on Imperial released a version entitled "Toy Bell". Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts recorded it in 1961, and it was part of their live act for many years. Berry recorded a version called "My Tambourine" in 1968, but the version which topped the charts was recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Susie
"Miss Susie had a steamboat", also known as "Hello Operator",Mayfield, Josh. at ''Inky's Linkies''. 3 Apr 2004. Accessed 13 Jan 2014. "Miss Suzy", "Miss Lucy", and many other names, is the name of an American schoolyard rhyme in which each verse leads up to a rude word or profanity which is revealed in the next verse as part of an innocuous word or phrase. Originally used as a jump-rope rhyme, it is now more often sung alone or as part of a clapping game.Powell, Azizi.Similarities & Differences between 'Bang Bang Lulu' & 'Miss Lucy Had a Steamboat' at ''Pancocojams''. 16 Oct 2013. Accessed 13 Jan 2014. Hand signs sometimes accompany the song, such as pulling on the bell in the first verse or making a phone gesture in the second. This song is sometimes combined or confused with "Miss Lucy had a baby", which is sung to the same tune and also served as a jump-rope song. That song developed from verses of much older (and cruder) songs which were most commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
