Remember any old silly verses etc you were told as a child

[raine]

Our own strange version of the A A Milne rhyme about taking care not to walk on the lines of the pavement was:

 

If you step on a crack

you'll marry a rat

who'll pinch you and bite you and scratch you.

[PeterJames]

I know it as

 

"An actor, an actor,

Was my uncle jim

Till somebody threw a tomato at him....

 

Now tomatoes are soft,

And they don't break the skin

But this one was different,

It was still in the tin!

 

Singing toooralie oooralie ooorrralie -ayyy"

 

My dad used to sing this version:

 

Ryan O Flynn had his arm in a sling

tomatoes don't hurt me he said with a grin

But this one did it was still in the tin

And that was the end of poor Ryan O Flynn

 

(Probably learnt from Attercliffe Palace (Adelphi?)

[Joanl]

Theres one that's bugging me cos I can't remember it all.....

 

One fine day in the middle of the night,

two dead men got up to fight.

Back to back they faced each other,

Drew their swords and shot each other.

 

I keep going over and over it in my head but.....

[Plain Talker]

Theres one that's bugging me cos I can't remember it all.....

 

One fine day in the middle of the night,

two dead men got up to fight.

Back to back they faced each other,

Drew their swords and shot each other.

 

I keep going over and over it in my head but.....

 

have a look further back up the thread, Joan, I posted that much, which was all I could remember from my grandpa teaching it me as a child, and, luckily someone with a better memory for rhyme than I have, filled in the blank a few posts later.

 

^^^^

 

PT

[Plain Talker]

joanL....

 

 

I found it!!

 

Wizard Of Odd filled in the blanks, back in post 64.

 

these are the rest of the rhyme, as W-O-O remembers them, and they do sound about right:-

 

a blind man came to see fair play

a dumb man came to shout hooray

a paralysed donkey passing by

kicked the blind man in the eye

knocked em o'er an aif inch wall

into a dry ditch & drownded em all

 

PT

[nanrobbo]

Which reminded me of:

You know last night, well night before

Three little tomcats came knocking at out door

One had a fiddle one had a drum

and one had a pancake stuck to his bum:o

[nanrobbo]

Oops see it has been done before- sorry PT. Nan

[Joanl]

:roll:PT went back to 64....perhaps that's why it was going round in my head cos I'd already read it. I don't recognise any of the other bits of it though.

[Treatment]

I remember a quaint expression, it went something like '' Honesty is the best policy ''. Soon had that knocked out of me.

[Joto]

I see I've missed a few while I've been missing, thanks PT, Joan and Nan, raine and Peter.

What happened Treatment? did you own up when you were a naughty boy