Old Rhymes:

Does anyone know any more of these from long ago?

• 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!]
• 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