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What are some of the funny/silly sayings and rhymes you remember from elementary school?

fr example kids used to run around and spell haPPy, putting emphasis on the "PP"

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  • puma
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Miss. Lucy had a baby, she named him Tiny Tim

    She put him in the bathtub to see if he could swim

    He drank up all the water

    He ate up all the soap

    He tried to eat the bathtub, but it got stuck in his throat

    Miss. Lucy called the Doctor, the doctor called the nurse, the nurse called the lady with the alligator purse...

  • 1 decade ago

    Found a Peanut song , Kissing in a Tree rhyme , Any Mighty Moe , Peas Porridge Hot, Kittens who lost their mittens, The Cow that jumped over the moon

  • Catie
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I remember playing jump rope at recess. The little sing-song we girls jumped rope to was this:

    Where you from? Pretty girl station.

    What's your trade? Pink Lemonade

    Well get to work and get it made.

    A-B-C-D-E-F-G (you continued with the alphabet until you tripped. The letter you stopped on you had to think of a boy's name that began with that letter. He was the guy you would supposedly marry! LOL

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Somebody, somebody

    sittin in a tree

    k-i-s-s-i-n-g.

    1st comes loves

    then comes marriage

    then comes whoever with a baby carriage.

    though since now that women have bastard children, the 3rd and 4th lines can be reversed.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Step on a crack and u'll break ur mommas back.

    El camaron que se duerme se lo lleva la coriente.

  • p.g
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    "Tu que eres poeta

    y en el aire las compones

    házme una chaqueta

    sin bajarme los calzones"

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    This old man, he played one, he played nick nack on my thumb, nick nack paddy whack give your dog a bone, this old man came rolling home. On and on ad nauseum!

    I see London. I see France. I see ****'s underpants.

  • 1 decade ago

    All i remember is "Row Row Row your Boat", "Old Mcdonald had a Farm." and "When your Happy and you know it..."

    Take care.

  • panamm
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    we used to whap some one on the arm and say "YOU got so-n-so's COOTIES!!" and run away. we'd pass the cooties all day long, whew! what a passtime!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I remember this song: My ding-a-ling. I think it was by Chuck Berry.

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