Children's Games And Songs.

[Tilly2]

Following on from my hashed post in Arts and Lit, which songs and games do you remember from your childhood?
These are some of the street games I remember.
Rally ango
What's the time Mr Wolf?
The farmer's in his den
Tin can turkey.
Paper chase.
Knock down ginger.

Can't think of any songs at the moment apart from Tom Tail Tit.

[Togo]

//We often used to play throwing sticks and stones when we got invaded by our rivals from the next street. :-)//

Lol Tills Bradwell used to have massed battles with Chesterton and Crackley Bank. Great big swords (made from those 3 sided fence staves) and shields. Blood was regularly spilled.

[Tilly2]

Happy days, Togo.

[Jahulaye]

Forgot double Dutch skipping

[Tilly2]

Didn't do that one, Jahulaye. Just the single French one.

Togo, I was actually not much of a fighter but I could throw well and accurately and I could run!

[jno]

hi ho the derry oh, Tilly, like this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_in_the_Dell

That's the whole song as I learnt it. Isn't E. I. Addio the football correspondent for Private Eye?

Clarion, that's right, it was written for the opening of the canal.

[Tilly2]

We must have sung another version, Jno. In a different accent.

[Togo]

Lol Tills. Put you in the Bradder artillery then. :))

[jno]

here it is, football song. The link to Farmer in his Den actually takes you to Farmer in the Dell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ee_Aye_Addio

[Tilly2]

Oh, here:-

In the United Kingdom the first line is frequently changed to "The Farmer's in his den". The rhyme progresses through the farmer being in the dell/his den, his desire for a wife, hers for a child, its for a nurse, a dog, ending with a bone, ending in: "we all pat the bone". Every player then pats the one picked as the bone.[1] The 'Hi-Ho, the derry-o' is variously replaced with "Ee-i, tiddly-i" in London, 'Ee-i, adio', 'Ee-i, andio' or 'Ee-i, entio', (in Northern England), and 'Ee-i, ee-i' (for instance in the West Country)

[Tilly2]

My dad played in Bradder Wood, Togo. I'm on your side.

[marval]

I remember some of these, also Grandmother's Footsteps.

[Tilly2]

Don't know that one, Marval. What was it?

[-Talbot-]

Can't remember any of them.

[Tilly2]

See your GP, Talbot.

[marval]

Here you go Tilly.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/grandmother%27s_footsteps

[Tilly2]

Thanks, Marval. We played that one but I can't remember what we called it.

Anyway, off now. Thanks for all the responses. I enjoyed that. xxx

[jazzyjen]

ENgland, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, inside, outside, donkey's tails!