On Aug 12, 2007, at 13:08, Heather Muth wrote:
No one has mentioned one I remember from my childhood (late 60's).
This was a 'clapping' song - two girls faced one another and clapped
their hands together, crossing arms etc in a pattern.
We had one of those too! Quite gruesome and therefore a
Dear Jane,
I wrote a letter to my love
And on the way I dropped it
Somebody must have picked it up
And put it in their pocket
Thief, thief, drop it,
Thief, thief, drop it...
Thanks for that - exactly the same in Australia in the 50s.
Anyone remember a skipping rope chant which went:-
Andy Pandy
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David in Ballarat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I found this fascinating, for the game you describe is virtually the
>same as what we knew as "Drop the hanky" and I'm sure we had a chant
>for that too, but it wasn't yours and I can't for the life of me
>remember it
Tamara,
Taffy was a welsh man,
I took the piece of beef,
And threw it at his head.
That would most probably be a chant for a ball game I reckon.
Why do you reckon so?
Mainly because we did have numerous rhymes for ball games where the
ball was thrown AT someone on the last word of the ditt
> >> Taffy was a welsh man,
> >> Taffy was a thief.
> >> Taffy came to my house,
> >> And stole a piece of beef.
> >>
> >> I went to Taffy's house.
> >> Taffy was in bed.
> >> I took the piece of beef,
> >> And threw it at his head.
I learned the last two lines as:
I took a marrow bone
And hit hi
On Aug 8, 2007, at 21:47, David in Ballarat wrote:
Candida,
Taffy was a welsh man,
Taffy was a thief.
Taffy came to my house,
And stole a piece of beef.
I went to Taffy's house.
Taffy was in bed.
I took the piece of beef,
And threw it at his head.
I'm not sure what it is supposed to mean.
T
