What is the first playground rhyme that comes to mind?

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Ok_Hedgehog_3846@reddit

Ring around the roses a pocket full of posies(idfk) Achoo Achoo We all fall down

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sipendi_shida@reddit (OP)

Ashes in the water Ashes in the sea We all jump up with a 1 2 3 My kids still sing this

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TimeCharacter3137@reddit

Ip dip do, The cats got the flu, The dogs got the chicken pox, Out goes you.

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Did_OJ_Simpson_do_it@reddit

Not because you’re dirty, not you’re clean, my mum says you’re the fairy queen

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My daughter does (well, did - as a clapping game) "Apple on a stick, it makes me sick, it makes my heart beat 2 4 6. Not because you're dirty, not because you're clean, just because you read it in a magazine. Now close your eyes and count to 10 and if you mess it all up then you're not my friend!"

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rynchenzo@reddit

Inky pinky parlez vous

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LauraBaby1988@reddit

There was an old man of 92

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asymmetricears@reddit

IP dip dog shit Fucking bastard silly git You are not it

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CaptainDarlingSW4@reddit

Ippy, dippy, dation, my operation. How many people at the station. 6. If the number comes to you will surly not be it.

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ARobertNotABob@reddit

What's the time, Half-past nine, Hang your knickers on the line.

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bizstring@reddit

Ip dip dog shit you are not it

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cheesewindow@reddit

Ibble obble chocolate bobble ibble obble out.

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ARobertNotABob@reddit

One potato, two potato, three potato, four...

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markedmo@reddit

Bart sold his soul, and that’s just swell, now he’s going straight to hello operator, give me number 9… Simpsons recollections are clearer than my own

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isajaffacakeabiscuit@reddit

Eeny meeny miny mo catch a tiger by the toe, if it squeals let it go, you are not it

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sipendi_shida@reddit (OP)

Are there a lot of comments being deleted?

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Did_OJ_Simpson_do_it@reddit

Very common on this sub-reddit

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TRFKTA@reddit

Either: Neighbours, pick your bum and taste the flavours Or When it comes out your bum like Pedigree Chum it’s Diarrhoea, Diarrhoea.

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ExcitementForgotten9@reddit

Ibble, Obble, Chocolate bobble, Ibble, Obble Out

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TapeDeckSlick@reddit

Ip, dip, dog shit, suck a fanny, suck a tit, you are not it Not thought about that in many years hahaha

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MissBernkastel@reddit

This is what I immediately remembered also, haven’t thought about it in years. Quite inappropriate now I do remember 😅

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sipendi_shida@reddit (OP)

I think ours was Ip dip dog sh*t, f*cking b*astard, smelly git. It is not you

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Lopsided_Snower@reddit

Jingle bells Batman smells

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Comyface@reddit

The one I remember is so tame compared to all these! 😂 Ip dip dip My blue ship Sailing on the water Like a cup and saucer O - U - T spells out

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rainbow84uk@reddit

We didn't have this exact one but we did sneakily add the "...and O-U-T spells out" at the end of any of these rhymes, to try to control who got chosen as It. I also remember a line about "floating on the water like a cup and saucer" from a playground game called Please Mr Crocodile.

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sipendi_shida@reddit (OP)

Mickey mouse in his house Pulling down his trousers. Quick mum, smack his bum. Out goes number one.

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LiLaLiCorne@reddit

ip dip dog shit you stood in it (you are then out) Also Do yer boobs hang low can you toss them to and fro, can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow? Do you get a funny feeling when you hang them from the ceiling Do yer boobs hang loooooow!

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msully89@reddit

On top of the school roof, covered in sand I shot my poor teacher, with a blue lazzy band I shot her with glory, I shot her with pride You couldn't have missed her, she was 50 foot wide I went to the headmaster, and found out what I'd done Then I went crying home, with a bleedin' red bum

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EnfysEverywhere@reddit

Down by the riverside of the hanky panky where the bullfrogs leap from bank to bank, say a hey ho, hey ho, down by the riverside, goes plop. Also, the Lizzie Borden song which I think came from an American girl in the school. Lizzie Borden took an ax Gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty one And lastly, In and Out the Dusty Bluebells. I remember how the game went but not the words themselves

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sipendi_shida@reddit (OP)

Dusty bluebells actually rings a bell. I know the tune but can't think of the last line

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unfit-calligraphy@reddit

Here’s maggie thatcher Throw her up and catch her Squish squash squish squash There’s maggie thatcher

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Elongulation420@reddit

Milk, milk, lemonade, round the back chocolate’s made. (Though technically that’s more from my children’s era. Ones from my era were in Latin and read from scrolls)

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Capital-Database-993@reddit

'chocolate's sprayed' was a variant we occasionally used

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htimchis@reddit

"Lac, lac, citrum bibere, circa anguli..."

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Imaginary_Compote608@reddit

I laughed 😁

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Elongulation420@reddit

🏆

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pippysquibbins@reddit

Definitely chocolate's made. First thing I learnt at school, not about to forget it 58 years later.

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mojomonkey18@reddit

I knew it as round the corner fudge is made

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Usual-Sound-2962@reddit

Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack All dressed in black black black With silver buttons buttons buttons All down her back back back She asked her mother mother mother For 50 pence pence pence She jumped so high high high She flew over the fence fence fence Or Mary Ann Cotton, she’s dead and she’s rotten. Lying in bed with her eyes wide open. Sing, sing, what should I sing? Mary Ann Cotton, she’s tied up with string. Where, where? Up in the air. Selling black puddings, a penny a pair.

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sbaldrick33@reddit

"Ip dip, dog shit, fucking bastard, silly git, you are not it" Also "eenie meanie miny mo", but with "fishy" replacing you-know-what.

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Imaginary_Compote608@reddit

Ip dip Cow shit Who trod in it My mother said it was you

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sihasihasi@reddit

Eeny meeny miny mo

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KeithLimePie@reddit

Very sanitised version.

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cloud__19@reddit

We did ip dip dog shit, you are not it. But then I went to primary school in Leith.

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sipendi_shida@reddit (OP)

I forgot this version 😂 Birmingham school here

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TeamOfPups@reddit

We said that too, in Cumbria

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Evening-Tomatillo-47@reddit

Same in Cheshire hun x

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First-Lengthiness-16@reddit

Ours was up do dog shit, fucking bastard, smelly git, you are not it. My mum caught me signing this at the top of my voice on the playground, lifted me up by my legs and slapped me silly

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atillathekitteh@reddit

Eenie meanie miney mo Cach the Tigger by his toes If he screams let him go Eenie meanie miney mo One of the older dinner ladies got a scolding off the headteacher for using the N word at lunchtime (early 90s). Anyone who used that word afterwards got detention. We were encouraged to use Tigger like in Winnie the Pooh.

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CaptainDarlingSW4@reddit

It raining it's pouring the old man is snoring. He went to bed and broke his head and couldn't get up in the morning.

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First-Lengthiness-16@reddit

Ours was bumped his head. I sang it with my kids this very morning in the way to school

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TheRealPyroManiac@reddit

Eeney meeny miney mo ~ not the Jeremy Clarkson ending though

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lysergic101@reddit

We had ip dip doo yer mam smells of poo - Manchester

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BroodingSonata@reddit

Ip dip dog shit Fucking bastard silly git You are not it

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srm79@reddit

Dot dot dot, big black question mark, blood rushing up blood rushing down, creepy crawlies to make you sneeze, which finger did I dot you with? (it was something like that haha)

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crucible@reddit

Jesus Christ, Superstar, wears frilly knickers and a playtex bra (we had this version instead of the “rode a Yamaha, Did a skid, killed a kid” one)

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kladoink@reddit

Ip dip dog shit fucking bastard dirty git, you are not it 🫣 I went to primary school in a rough area 😆

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SwingyWingyShoes@reddit

Did no one use eeny meeny miny moe? I thought it was more common.

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AuroraDF@reddit

Eeny meeny miney mo Put the baby on the po When she's done Wipe her bum Eeny meeny miney mo

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Psychological-Sea785@reddit

Think we had an ip dip sky blue all in but you

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Jesssca@reddit

Also, the grand old Duke of York, he had 10,000 men, and when they went up to the top of the hill then they marched back down again, and when they where up they where up, and when they where down they where down, and then they where only half way they where neither up or down

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Wolf-Dagger@reddit

Ip dip dog shit fucking bastard silly git you are not it. State school, rough area. 1980’s.

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SupportNo9543@reddit

Definitely ip dip dog shit

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dobsterfunk@reddit

Ip dip dog s**t F***ing b***ard Silly git, You are not it!

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Jesssca@reddit

Ip dip dog shit hairy Fanny juicy tit you are not it

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