Terms of Endearment

Not really. Lately I've been wondering if kids these days say the little ditties we said as children. "We" meaning my siblings and I, and other children of my generation. So I've decided to put a few of them here in case some of you don't know them. They are cheeky! They are NOT the cute little nursery rhymes we repeated to our children. 

"Oh, the biscuits in the (Army or Navy) they say are mighty fine, but one rolled off the table and killed a pal of mine. Oh, I have had enough of (Army or Navy) life, gee Ma, I wanta go, gee Pa, I wanta go home."

"Liar, liar, pants on fire, hang them on the telephone wire." You can tell that one's old. Not that many telephone wires anymore.

"It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring. Bumped his head, went to bed, didn't wake up in the morning."

"I see London, I see France, I see (someone's) under pants."

This one is extra-cheeky: "Salvation Army, Salvation Army, put a nickel in the drum, save another drunken bum..."

And the song we sang on the bus in high school on the way to games: "99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer, take one down and pass it around, 99 bottles of beer on the wall..." Keep going, 98 bottles of beer, etc. We weren't drinking beer on the bus. But this one time...

And words to supposedly "hurt" one another: Pig. My sibs and I always used this word before it became a jeer at police officers. We thought we were hurting each other by calling them this name. And butt-duck. What? Where did that come from, even? Probably one of my brothers made it up. 

Mom used to sing to us. "There was an old woman who swallowed a fly, I don't know why she swallowed the fly, I think she'll die." I can't remember all the things the old woman did, but I think she died. 

"Hush little baby, don't way a word, Momma's going to buy you a mocking bird, and if that mocking bird don't fly, Momma's going to buy you a ..." and so on. You can make up your own words

And, so appropriate: "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children she didn't know what to do." But, Mom wasn't an old woman. She didn't live long enough to be considered old. RIP Mom.

Do you remember any little ditties I didn't mention here? Make a comment and I'll post it after I review it.