The games we girls played at school during recess.
Remember the songs we sang while skipping rope and playing ball.
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Hello hello hello sir
Are you coming out sir?
No sir
Why sir
Because I got a cold sir
Where did you get the cold sir?
In the North Pole sir
What you doing there sir
Catching polar bears sir
How many did you catch sir?
One sir, two sir, three sir, four sir, five sir, six sir …..
One, two: buckle my shoe.
Three, four: shut the door.
Five, six pick up sticks.
Seven, eight: shut the gate.
Nine, ten: begin again.
Pease porridge hot.
Pease porridge cold.
Pease porridge in the pot.
Nine days old.
Some like it hot.
Some like it cold.
Some like it in the pot.
Nine days old.
Teddy bear, teddy bear: turn around.
Teddy bear, teddy bear: touch the ground.
Teddy bear, teddy bear: tie your shoes.
Teddy bear, teddy bear: read the news.
Teddy bear, teddy bear: go upstairs.
Teddy bear, teddy bear: say your prayers.
Teddy bear, teddy bear: turn out the lights.
Teddy bear, teddy bear: say good night.
G-O-O-D-N-I-G-H-T.
It says close your eyes but don’t actually close your eyes.
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I forgot this one
where the hell did you find those........hahahah I have 4 sisters ,plus all the neighbours kids playing & singing those rhymes ,either playing in the french school yard behind our house or the schoolyards where we went to school(Willibrord)or on the street,Steinberg's parking lot had a ledge that kids bounced balls off of,.....Also remember the kids skipping singing rhymes.......
Good find Pauline...................Cheers - Les
Thanks Pauline - boy the memories that brings back - and the laughs - and of course the pain at times lol!
Hi Sherry glad you enjoyed these wonderful memories and weren’t we lucky we got tired from playing and not from pushing buttons .
Pauline
Pauline - this one is terrific - so are all the rest - thanks
Pauline - these are all terrific - the first one especially - thanks :)
Hi Sandy Thanks, bet you could add a few more.
Remember
High low medium slow jolly pepper and then you would have to skip like mad to keep up. Wasn’t that fun to be in such good shape to be able to do that for so long?
Geese- the hardest times our parents had were trying to get us INTO the house! We were healthier, happier then!
Sherry so true. I remember an expression of my mother’s “better to wear out the shoes than the sheets” when we came in with soaking wet shoes from trying to jump over the street cleaner hose on the truck. We didn’t have another pair of shoes that fit so we would wear an old pair of shoes with our toes all squished up just to get out side again.
Pauline
Hi Pauline - hope you had a nice Easter - I've got one for you. There was one skipping song that we used to do that we copied from the French kids. We had no idea what we were saying but anyone walking by would have thought we were singing real words. It sounded like this "Une St. Garand, jusqua ma bouteille, que la que ci petroille, pres de my bouteille, sur la mar en "go" " On the last "go" we would stop skipping and put our right foot over the rope to stop it. I've love to know if you remember this and what the heck were we saying?
Hi Sandy What made you think of that???
If it is the same song i'm thinking of our version was something like this ... ......O St Jean jusqu ‘ a mon bouquet bla bla bla jusqu a mon bouquet sur la marine go .Don't have a clue what it means. It could be O St. Jacques too.
That was a good one. Do you have any more brain teasers??
I will ask my friend Denise if she remembers skipping to something like that. She is from Verdun too
Hi Pauline - I don't know why I remember it but I remember liking it a lot. Your version is pretty similar to mine - I would love if your friend Denise would be able to solve the mystery for us.
One thing I remember is our street - Fifth Avenue - was mostly English but there were a few French families - the kids were very seldom out on the street with us playing Hide and Go Seek and all the other stuff. Where were they? The did obviously come out sometimes for us to pick up their song and on the first day of school they would suddenly appear and troop up the street to their school on Fifth and Verdun - wonder where they all were most of the time?
I lived on Allard so by the time it travelled across Verdun the words must have changed many times. Just like gossip lol.
Andre is from 322 5th Ave. between Verdun and Wellington and went to that french school on Verdun and 5 th. Ave.I know he spent a lot of time in the lane .I'll ask him where he played when he was a kid. He has three brothers that had to play somewhere other than in the house. Although back then we stayed pretty close to home. Guess we had to stay close to hear our mother call us in for supper. They didn't have a car to drive us around..
As soon as I hear from Denise I'll let you know.
Hi Sandy
Reply from Denise:
It's strange that you ask about the rhyme song... I've been trying for years to figure out what in the world we were singing. Here is the way I heard it, it doesn't make sense to me: Une cenne grasse jusque ma boutaisse karataisse cipitrouille, presque ma boutaisse sur la Ma.... Ring.... Go!
I questioned so many people in years about this but nobody had a version that made more sense. In St-Jérôme, Ghislaine remembers singing when she was a kid: Amstramgram, pic à pic à ratatam, boura boura ratatam... amstramgram.
I can't help but notice that Amstramgram (which is some magic words we've seen in fairy books) looks a lot like my un cenne grasse... I guess we were all repeating things hear without knowing the meaning and like the telephone game words changed from one version to the other
Hi Pauline - never thought of that - about they played in the lane. There was one French fam sort of next door to us - in the bottom flat - and come to think of it, I always was at their back door when I was looking for the kids. The oldest girl was my age and left her school in grade 7 to come to St. Will's - pretty advanced for those days. However she didn't last the whole year and went back to the French school. Does Andre have any sisters? Maybe they would remember the song?
Anyway Denise remembers it pretty much the same as you and me - so we aren't crazy or on crack - lol
Hi Ladies does any of you remember playing red light green light or playing hide and seek sitting on someones steps covering your eyes and saying"I did it I did it I don't care" then they would ring the bell and run and hide ,this is what the kids did on 4th ave
between Bannantyne and Verdun ??Or do you remember the snow fort and make snow ball and then have a snowball fight ,,yes the good old days
Hi Suzanne
We pretty much played the same games on Allard Ave in the 50’s. All good clean fun. I made a beautiful snowman this winter . You never forget how to play just forget to play more often.
This is really cool enjoy
If you lived on Allard st.did you know the Bouchard or the Noel de tilly Family??Suzanne
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