sandilee

Don't recall any of yours but heres one I remember....and it was a long time ago;

Blue Bells Cockle Shells (rope goes low and not over head)
E B I B Overhead (then the rope went full swing over our head)

another;
Down in the valley where the green grass grows
sat little susie as sweet as a rose
she sang, she sang, she sang so sweet
and along came charlie and kissed her on the check

and...during the 1960=61 presidential election between Kennedy and Nixon..the song was'
(use either man your for vice versa)

Nixon Nixon is the man
Kennedy in the garbage can

mighty

I can remember we had them, but can not remember what they were.

Radiana

There were a couple on the list I remember.............Blue bells, cockle shells and Down by the River. I wonder if some on the list are what they're jumping rope to now a days.

mjsylvstr

don't remember if it was a jumprope song or what but your's reminded me of it..it went....
Rachael, Rachael, I been thinking
what I seen you doing the other night
Feeding sawdust to your chickens
....and they all laid wooden eggs!!!

institches33

Wow! So many of the songs are now politically incorrect!

Retired Fire Chief

Too funny! I don't remember singing songs when we jumped rope but I do remember a few of the ones mentioned. Really takes me back!

auntpiggylpn

Cinderella dressed in yella went downstairs to kiss a fella.
How many kisses did she get? Then you did "red hots" while counting out loud. When you mess up jumping, that's how many kisses she got!

Then there was the circle tag version that required a long jump rope and more than 3 people. Have two friends twirl a jump rope while the jumper chants: "Queen bee chasing me, I dare (call a friend's name) to catch me." The leader jumps three times after the chant, then out, and runs around to the other side as the friend whose name was called jumps in. The friend jumps three times, then out and runs around and tries to tag the leader before she jumps back in. The process is repeated with two jumps, then one until someone is tagged or misses the jump.

i was just thinking about jump rope songs and the hand clapping songs the other day!

auntpiggylpn

We learned that Miss Suzy had a baby and that was one of those patty cake songs with many verses; it went on for ever!

maryb119

Johnny over ocean
Johnny over sea
Johnny broke a milk bottle and blamed it on me.
I told Ma and Ma told Pa.
Johnny got a licking and ha ha ha
How many licks did he get
one

maryb119

then we would jump and count until we missed and that was how many licks Johnny got.