Calliers Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Like the title says. I'll start. Edit: obviously these are from what you remember growing up as a kid (and, in the case of Baby Shark, ones that just went viral for no particular reason other than they were catchy lol)! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alto Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 This isn't a memory from childhood, but I love "Baby Shark". Back when my bipolar support group was at it's height (in terms of fun), we all went to IHOP after our meeting one night. Everyone was eating and Joseph and I were singing "Baby Shark". I remember our friend Mark giving us a really funny look. It was awesome. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tanwen Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Ride a cock horse To Banbury Cross To see a fine lady Ride on a white horse With rings on her fingers And bells on her toes She shall have music Wherever she goes. I can remember my dad bouncing me on his knee singing it - as I did with both my sons and my grand daughter. 😆 It's supposed to relate to a visit to the town by Queen Elizabeth I, Warmington Hill is extremely steep, and farmers used to earn extra money by hiring out their horses to add to the normal team (cock horses) to help pull carriages/wagons up the hill. According to legend she was so impatient, she took, and rode one into town. Banbury Cross was the site of a 'Sanctuary Cross' 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
everywhere and nowhere Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 You won't know them because they're not in English, but I can at least describe a funny nursery (or rather kindergarten)-rhyme-related situation. Wanda Chotomska was a children's writer, quite popular in my childhood. There was a funny poem by her, "If tigers ate toffees", and at the age of five or six I was already a dedicated tigermaniac (it began with my first plush tiger when I was two years old). Except... it was the pre-internet age - 1980s - so all I knew of this poem was the title. So I... wrote out own version with a friend. It prominently featured the phrase "gastric distress" because I had just learned it. The title, actually, can be translated either as "If tigers ate toffees" (and this is what the author meant) or "If tigers ate irises" - "Iris" was a brand of toffees. This is needed as an introduction to an extra detail. We moved to my current apartment when I was five years old, I continued going to the same kindergarten because I refused to switch, and then I went to a school which can be seen from my window. (During all elections, the electoral committee for my area is also in that school's building.) It's a model typical for the area - grades 1-3 only, to separate the smallest children from older ones which can be bothersome or, in extreme cases, even dangerous to them - and next to it there is also a kindergarten. Later, already in my adulthood, the kindergarten received a patron - the very same Wanda Chotomska. And a few years ago a lovely mural was painted, which interprets the title of that poem of hers in the other way: But I also know a thing or two about English nursery rhymes, although I actually don't know the ones you mentioned. But in my later childhood, I played the educational game "Mixed-Up Mother Goose", where you just need to bring items to characters from the Mother Goose rhymes, and as a reward you get to hear the songs. Here are examples of its three versions in more primitive EGA (16 colours), more sophisticated EGA (the first version I played) and VGA (256 colours): My favourite was probably "Banbury Cross"... for reasons which are best explained in a diary entry written approximately 25 years after having first played this game (1992-2017): Quote Fine lady arrives nobody knows where from and leaves nobody knows where to, she APPEARS for a moment like a goddess, equipped, in any case, with attributes such as a white horse and reverberating music (although on the visual level - in the game itself - she is rather shown like a stereotypical fairytale princess), in a meaningful (totopotent) place of crossroads. Maybe something of the mysterious status of this lady has come off the context and, not even recognised in its source, was washed ashore in my idea of the "psychedelic woman" (....). 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Calliers Posted May 13, 2022 Author Share Posted May 13, 2022 This one isn't from my childhood, but it is one of my favorite songs that kinda went viral lol, Dr. Jean is such a darling lol. And this one is from my childhood: 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 I always loved the one where the blackbirds get cooked alive in the pie then they steal the maid's nose lol (Sing a Song of Sixpence). I heard a murder-mystery on BBC radio when i was a kid where the killer was using stuff from the song as an MO and ever since then I was obsessed with it Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened The birds began to sing— Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king? The king was in the counting-house Counting out his money, The queen was in the parlor Eating bread and honey, The maid was in the garden Hanging out the clothes. Along came a blackbird And pecked off her nose. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blue eyes white dragon Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 London bridge is falling down, but that is because I visited it at lake havasu in arizona 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blueberry Pie Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 Ring Around the Rosie, maybe https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/07/ring-around-the-rosie-metafolklore-rhyme-and-reason/ Edit: Oh, actually, Miss Mary Mack instead. I used to do that a lot when I was in elementary school: https://allnurseryrhymes.com/miss-mary-mack/ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Calliers Posted May 14, 2022 Author Share Posted May 14, 2022 Some of my favorite Sesame Street songs: 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Milque Toast Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 @Calliers I don't wanna live on the moon... that one brings back memories. That song is really sweet and I still listen to it from time to time ! here are some german ones I remember fondly from my childhood: this one included a game, where I sat on my mum/dad's lap, and bounce (as the reiter - rider), and when he goes "plumps", you drop down on the floor. did that one endless times (this one is very well known in germany) and, this one isn't a well known nursery rhyme, but a song I really liked from this game I used to play on my mum's ancient laptop. Even now, I think I still really like the song 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Calliers Posted May 14, 2022 Author Share Posted May 14, 2022 25 minutes ago, Milque Toast said: @Calliers I don't wanna live on the moon... that one brings back memories. That song is really sweet and I still listen to it from time to time ! here are some german ones I remember fondly from my childhood: this one included a game, where I sat on my mum/dad's lap, and bounce (as the reiter - rider), and when he goes "plumps", you drop down on the floor. did that one endless times (this one is very well known in germany) and, this one isn't a well known nursery rhyme, but a song I really liked from this game I used to play on my mum's ancient laptop. Even now, I think I still really like the song Yes @Milque Toast, I don't want to live on the moon brings back great memories to me as well, and I am glad it does for you too. The whole point of the thread is so that we can revisit that special time when we were just all innocent as can be.... and everything was new and wonderful. Used to enjoy this number song from Sesame Street as well and sing along: 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Calliers Posted May 15, 2022 Author Share Posted May 15, 2022 Do Sunday School songs count, I loved this one! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Boondocks Paradox Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Never grew up with children's music (was exposed more into 80's music, and still love it) but if there's a song I simultaneously love and hate: I find this a a perfect song to troll someone on an endless loop. 😂 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uniQChick Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 In the USSR, there was a children's program "Спокойной ночи, малыши" (Good Night, kids) on TV in the evening, including one cartoon. Every child wanted to watch it before going to bed. At the beginning of the program, this lullaby was played. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Calliers Posted May 17, 2022 Author Share Posted May 17, 2022 I know this one was common but I absolutely adored it! Humpty dumpty was good: Another popular one I liked: Five little ducks lol, this one I rather enjoyed: Jack and Jill, this one there are so many versions of: 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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