- One series:
- Knife and a fork, bottle and a cork. That's the way you spell New York
- Chick in a car, and the car can't go. That's the way you spell Chicago
- Some old Lewis Carol:
- T'was midnight on the ocean and the sun was shining bright. I hopped into a taxi cab and rode that day all night.
[Must have been in the Artic in Summer!]
- T'was midnight on the ocean and the sun was shining bright. I hopped into a taxi cab and rode that day all night.
- tongue stumblers:
- Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy, too. Wouldn't you?
...[From] part of a popular nonsense song of 1943 called "Mairzy Doats"--per ASCAP Hit Tunes booklet, written by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman,and Jerry Livingston. The beginning is more or less rendered:
Mairzy doats and doazy doats, and little lamzi tivy. A kiddely tivy too, Wood'n you?
- Submitted by Elaine Chubb
- I thrice thrust a thistle through the thick of my thumb. (A favorite of my Grandfather, who knew the rest of it and rattled it all off well.)
- One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead men got up to fight.
One blind man to see fair play,
One dumb man to shout "Hooray!"
A lame donkey came galloping by
and kicked the blind man in the eye. - Submitted by Elaine Chubb
- Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy, too. Wouldn't you?
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Old Rhymes:
Does anyone know any more of these from long ago?
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I always heard it was:
T'was midnight on the ocean,
not a streetcar was in sight,
the sun was shining brightly,
it rained snow, all that night.
..... The organist peeled potatoes,
(something) was rendered by the choir
Holy smokes, the preacher shouted,
Someone's set the church on fire.
And in the confusion,
the preacher lost his hair,
and i\his head is just like heaven,
for there is no parting there.
It has a similar rhyme scheme and similar words to part of the "Walrus and the Carpenter".
My grandfatehr used to say, " I see said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw."
"While the organ pealed potatoes, Lard was rendered by the choir, (The third line I can't remember), Someone set the church afire. Holy Smoke! the preacher shouted, and he wildly tore his hair. Now his head resembles Heaven, For there is no parting there."
While the organ pealed potatos
Lard was rendered by the choir
While the sextant rang the dishrag
Someone set the Church on fire
Wholly smoke the preacher shouted
In the reign he lost his hair (heir)
Now his head resembles Heaven
For there is not parting there.
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