This is how it went, best as I can remember it:

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Miss Suzy Had A Steamboat - meme

Did you used to sing this song in pre- and elementry school? With the complicated hand clapping and everything? I did. And this is the version the kids at my school sang:


Miss Suzy had a steamboat;
the steamboat had a belt (toot toot!)
Miss Suzy went to heaven,
the steamboat went to
Hell-o opeterator, please give me number 9
and if you disconnect me, I'll chop off your
behind the frigerator
there lay a piece of glass.
Miss Suzy sat upon it, and broke her little
ask me no more questions
I'll tell you not more lies
The boys are in the bathroom, zipping up their
flies are in the meadow;
the bees are in the park;
Miss Suzy and her boyfriend
are kissing in the
D-A-R-K
D-A-R-K
dark dark dark!
The dark is is like a movie,
the movie's like a show.
A show is on the TV-set
and that is all I
know I know my Ma,
I know I know my Pa,
I know I know my sister
with the 49-er bra!
My mother gave me a nickel;
my father gave me a dime;
my sister gave me a boyfriend
who kissed me all the time.
He made me wash the dishes.
He made me clean the floor.
He made me scrub his underwear so I kicked him out the door!
I kicked him over London,
I kicked him over France,
I kicked him so far up you could see his underpants!


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Alas, I don't think the last line is quite right. It keeps escaping me. There used to be even more... or maybe it was a separate one. But used to know at least 3 more of these kind of chants.

Does anyone know this one? It comes with much more complex hand-movements tahn the one above. I think it was used to teach vowel sounds.

Down by the banks of the hanky-panky
Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky
Where the eeps, ipes, opes, owpes,
Fell in the water and it went
ker-PLOP! ::be the faster person to smack your partner on the head::

Comments

[icafreak.livejournal.com]

My cousin and I were trying to remember the words to the Miss Suzy thing last month! We could not get passed the flies line.

[hecatehatesthat.livejournal.com]

Our Miss Lucy wasn't quite as long, and piece of glass went right up her ask me no more questions, and our boys were pulling down, not zipping up their flies, but yeah. And I think the sister had an 18-hour bra. I never knew what that meant.

And our bullfrogs said, "eep, op, eep-op-op, skiddle, diddle, ker-PLOP!"

But yeah.

The most complicated of those hand games, though, was "Rockin Robin." There were two, three, and four-person varieties, and all required you remember which direction you had last group-clapped in so you wouldn't mess up the next group-clap, and in between were individual motions...

Swing, swing, swing, to the limousine, hey hey!

She rocks in the treetops all day long
hoppin and a' boppin and a'singin her song
all the little birdies on Jay Bird Street
love to hear the robin go
"tweet, tweet, tweet!"
Rockin' Robin
tweet, tweet-a-leet
Rockin' Robin
tweet, tweet-a-leet

Mama's in the kitchen, fryin' rice
Papa's in the bathroom, shootin' mice
brother's in jail, peein' in a pail
sister's in a corner eatin' fruit cocktail
Rockin' Robin
tweet, tweet-a-leet
Rockin' Robin
tweet, tweet-a-leet

...and so on. I don't remember all the rest. And there was another one about... big macs and milkshakes I don't remember, and "Bobo Ski-wot 'n tot" which I can still do all the hand motions to, because it took me so long to learn them. And "slide" which was just the same motions over and over again repeated as fast as possible once, then each motion twice, then each three times, and on and on as high as you could go.

I'll stop listing them now, but yeah, those were big at my elementary school. Even the boys did them.

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my edits in ()...

Miss Suzy had a steamboat;
the steamboat had a belt
Miss Suzy went to heaven,
the steamboat went to
(hello operator, give me number 9)
and if you disconnect me, I'll (kick)
behind the frigerator
(was) a piece of glass.
Miss Suzy sat upon it, and (cut) her little
ask me no more questions
(tell me no more lies)
(the cows are in the pasture)
(making chocolate pies)
(& lemon-ade).

gross, much?

miss mary mack (mack mack)
all dressed in black (black black)
with silver buttons (buttons buttons)
all down her back (back back)
she asked her mother (mother mother)
for fifty cent (cents cents)
to see the elephants (elephants elephans)
go jump the fence (fence fence)
they jumped so high (high high)
they never came back (back back)
til the 4th of july (lie lie)
liar!