engine,engine,number.nine gong down chicago line if the train falls
off the track
do you want your money back {you would pick yes or no and the word
would be
spelled out. no would be n-o spells no you don't get your money
back or
y-e-s-spells yes and you shall have you money back}
or
my mother and your mother were at the store your mother punched my mother
in the nose. what color was the blood {name any color and spell it
out then
say the color} was the color of the blood.
or
two horses in one stable and one jumped out.
or
scout scout you're out.
Contributed by Martha Wiltsie
We would put both fists out in front of us, and he would hit each fist,
one at a time while saying the following rhyme. The fist he would
hit would be out, but you had another fist left, so you could still win.
The winner was the one who had the only fist left up.
One potato, two potato, three potato, four.
Five potato, six potato, seven potato, more.
(Then the person would remove the fist on the word "more" and the game
would begin again.)
Contributed by Nicki Platt
Tunes were:
You would count each foot by each syllable you said of a word.
Like after
you say bubblegum you should have tapped 3 feet.
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17
Bub-ble-gum bub-ble-gum in a dish how man-y piec-es do you wish. (Whoever
you landed on here got to pick a #) You should have tapped about
17 feet or
gone around the circle to touch 17 feet at the end of this part)
Then you went around the circle counting each foot to the number the person said
Then after you get to the number they picked you keep going and say
"and you are not it you dir-ty dir-ty dish rag you" "Not be-cause your
dir-ty not be-cause your clean, just be-cause you kissed a boy be-hind
a
mag-a zine.
Whoever you landed on when you said "zine" could either be "it" or if
you
wanted to keep going that person would just be out and you would keep
doing
the same tune until one person was left then they would be "it"
(Obviously
that takes longer)
or
"skunk in the barn-yard
pew-wee
who could of done it
not me"
You can stop here or add "my mama' or "dirty dishrag"
Everyone always varied these to there own liking anyway.
Contributed by Julianne Brewer