Jump-rope rhyme
Nov. 19th, 2006 12:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twirlgrrlI suppose there are regional variations to everything like this. Here is the rhyme we used to chant while jumping rope at the little two-room school I went to from first through eighth grade.
Not last night but the night before
24 robbers came a-knockin' at my door
As I ran out (run out of the rope)
They... ran... in (jump back in)
And they hit me on the head with a rolling pin
And this is what they said to me
Old lady, old lady, turn around (turn around while jumping)
Old lady, old lady, touch the ground (touch the ground between jumps)
Old lady, old lady, show your show (hold one foot out while jumping)
Old lady, old lady, that will do!
Then I'd run out of the rope and the next girl in line would run in to start the rhyme again.
We were suburban kids in a tiny religious school, a maximum of 30 kids in first through eighth. We didn't know from double dutch or any complicated rhymes or rhythms. This was hard enough for us, at least in the first classroom. I don't think I jumped rope anymore after I moved up to the second classroom in fifth grade.
What do you remember chanting, singing or playing in grade school?
ETA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapping_game Wikipedia rocks, thanks flymetothemoon!
Not last night but the night before
24 robbers came a-knockin' at my door
As I ran out (run out of the rope)
They... ran... in (jump back in)
And they hit me on the head with a rolling pin
And this is what they said to me
Old lady, old lady, turn around (turn around while jumping)
Old lady, old lady, touch the ground (touch the ground between jumps)
Old lady, old lady, show your show (hold one foot out while jumping)
Old lady, old lady, that will do!
Then I'd run out of the rope and the next girl in line would run in to start the rhyme again.
We were suburban kids in a tiny religious school, a maximum of 30 kids in first through eighth. We didn't know from double dutch or any complicated rhymes or rhythms. This was hard enough for us, at least in the first classroom. I don't think I jumped rope anymore after I moved up to the second classroom in fifth grade.
What do you remember chanting, singing or playing in grade school?
ETA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapping_game Wikipedia rocks, thanks flymetothemoon!
