If I recall correctly the Elvish c in Tolkien is pronounced as a k. So Celeborn is pronounced Keleborn. O boy, what joy, we had in barefoot days, http://www.rienzihills.com/SING/B/barefootdays.htm, Here too: http://londonbobby.com/lblyric.htm#bare, Cee cee oh play me Forever more, more, [I suppose ad infinitum is assumed] Please include name and address. But the connection to the "most beautiful word" story wouldn't be affected it could have arisen out of either song. into my cellar door
I'd love to know how that happened. FWIW: CHORUS: With tearful eye, she breathed a sigh Some think the words are "Slide down my rain barrel" We would appreciate any help you can give us about the correct words to this song. We always sang it "Slide down my rainbow into my cellar door.". Hey, hey, oh playmate, And through the cellar door Climb up my hippie tree Youll bring your dollies three, "The Euphony of Cellar Door" was also discussed, including the 1903 text, by Michael Gilleland back in Nov. 2009: We had a garden, and, yes, we collected water in a rain barrel to supplement our water supply because water was precious! 'Cellar door' makes more sense to late 20th century ears, and perhaps movies such as "The Wizard of Oz" and "Arsenic and Old Lace" help keep the concept of a sloped cellar door alive. Designed for the new generation of older adults who are redefining what it means to age and are looking forward to whats next. 2. A It doesnt seem like a lot, but it will go a long way to removing that rain barrel smell. slide down my cellar door
Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. BIOG: NAME: 2023 www.oklahoman.com. Cellars for the most part were for the purpose of storing root vegetables and apples, home-canned fruits and vegetables, and were just a small dug-out area under the house or from a hill or mound near the house. I'm sorry, playmate, Harry Golden, a columnist of the '60s, wrote that "cellar door" was the most mellifluous phrase in the English language. In a 2010 NYT On Language column, Grant Barrett traced the claim that cellar door is the most beautiful phrase in English back as far as 1905 1903. We serve all of San Antonio, including the cities of Alamo Heights, Terrell Hills, Shavano Park, Hollywood Park, Hill Country Village, Bulverde, Garden Ridge, Schertz, Cibolo, Converse, Universal City. Apparently I grew up in a vacuum. The state of Washington has a law against the collection of rainwater by property-owners. When I heard the cliche about this phrase being considered as sounding exceptionally beautiful, I assumed it had something to do with French "d' or". The once melodious rain barrel answers hollow and despairing to my plaints.. Forevermore, more As her world's westernmost isle (not to mention the abode of dragons), it's a highly romanticized place, to the extent that Earthsea's equivalent of "Once upon a time" is "As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor". Climb up my acid tree And bring your dollies, three AdBlock or similar extension is detected on your device. slide down my cellar door,
A textbook on language that I remember (vaguely, to be sure) from 8th grade said that someone had claimed that "cellar door" and "cuspidor" were among the most beautiful words in English. And baby kangaroo All lyrics are property of their respective owners & are provided for informational & educational purposes only. Oh Playmate, come out and play with me
Lima (Ohio)News 1968. Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. come out and fight with me Fresh new songs recently added to our site. make an informed decision when buying or selling a house. Come out and play with me
I'm intrigued to find out that it has words that make sense! On the topic of ugly words for pretty things: pellucid. A tape, by The Jingleheimers, was played by Cindy Sly of Oklahoma City to discover it says, "slide down my rainbow, slide down my cellar door ". My dollies have the flu GN. Come out and play with me And we'll be jolly friends forever more. I guess there's some rule that any rain that falls belongs to the city or something. But if we take 1903 as the first year so far known that the claim "surfaced," then it was not "50+ years after the claim first surfaced." Aint got no rain barrelAint got no cellar doorBut well be jolly friendsForever more, more, more. The songs you've voted to be the very best. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS). I remembered it and started to sing it to her, (pause) Song parodies are of course very common in children's lore. Sound combination? I really think this meme originated in a non-rhotic region: "celador" is somewhat pleasing to my ear, but my (NW US rhotic) pronunciation of "cellar door" doesn't seem pretty to me at all. And bring your monsters three, GN. In various forms, slide down my cellar door became a kind of catchphrase to suggest innocent friendship. 
'Rain barrel' is completely foreign to this Australian's eyes and ears. 
Or slide down your cellar door. Dont have an account? And Greece has said to Roumania, "You can't slide down my cellar-door any more.". Since the point of the story is that the beauty of "cellar door" is concealed from Anglophones by its meaning and orthography, it makes dramatic sense to attribute the insight to a speaker of another language who happens on the phrase and isn't distracted by those things often in fact, one who speaks little or no English him- or herself. Slide down my cellar door
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Climb up my apple tree. come out and play with me forever more, more, shut the door. Why is the phrase considered beautiful? Look down my rain-barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more But she couldn't come out and play It was a rainy day With tearful eye she breathed a sigh And I could hear her say I'm sorry, playmate, I cannot play with you My dolly's got the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo Ain't got no rain-barrel, ain't got no cellar door Say, say, oh playmate
With tearful NIEHS Kids' Pages are supported by the NIEHS Office of Communications and Public Liaison. Given that LeGuin, along with many other fantasy writers, demonstrates a fascination with the power of language, I doubt the name is purely coincidental. The original lyrics were: Say, say, oh playmate, The site is secure.The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely. And bring your dollies three
which can only be from a TV presenter's catchphrase of the day. The Fuller and Mazzini attributions strike me as pretty far-fetched. Help us send the best of Considerable to you. We serve all areas of San Antonio, including Alamo Heights, Alamo Ranch, Boerne, Bulverde, Castle Hills, Champions, Cibolo, Converse, Deerfield, The Dominion, Encino Park, Fair Oaks Ranch, Garden Ridge, Helotes, Hill Country Village, Hollywood Park, Inwood, Leon Springs, Monte Vista, Northwest San Antonio, North Central San Antonio, Northwood, Olmos Park, Rogers Ranch, Schertz, Shavano Creek, Shavano Park, Sonterra, Stone Oak, Terrell Hills, Universal City, Ft. Sam Houston, and Randolph AFB. 
Thats the last instance of the phrase that I can find where it's used that way. Venmo, Cash App and PayPal: Can you really trust your payment app? Can't slide your cellar door [or: Ain't got no cellar door]
I at least was familiar with rain barrels as well as cellar doors that either had the sloping door or steps/a ramp down to a vertical door, and it made complete sense to me that if you wanted to play in an apple tree with dollies, you'd also slide through a rain barrel to the cellar. Ain't got no cellar door,
Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door But what's the diff'rence where it came from, Now that I think of it, in Northeast Phila., it wasn't only a clapping song, it had the most elaborate clap sequence of any of the songs we knew (except maybe the Oreo song, which I never managed to learn). slide down my rainbow
And And we'll be jolly friends
Shout down my rain barrel
And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. I have no rain barrel, I have no *Another one gives the "Come out and play with me" lyrics but assigns them to "I don't want to play in your yard," for example. More, more, more. It is a hard thing to be a czar. 
climb up my apple tree,
Climb up my apple tree. and we'll be jolly friends forever more But we'll be jolly friends,
Shirley - We capture water (that is if we ever have rain again). forever more, more, lock the door. Search "cellar door bulkhead" in Google Images for visuals. climb up my apple tree. Fortunately for some around us they were more fortunate. Playmate come out and play with me As to the beauty of cellar door I wonder if some element of it may be the presence of the mellifluous liquid "l". For ever more more SHUT THAT DOOR. Look down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door. The version I learned in Tustin, California in about 1970 went: Say, say oh playmate, :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7388639-1496237195-4002.jpeg.jpg)
Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. This is just a preview! Suggestive of Celadon in the commedia dell'arte. And we'll be enemies Louisiana Conservation Review, 1940, The Abbe was gentle and courteous, not to say whimsical, and the very soul of cheerfulness, cordiality, and hospitality, but the blunt fact remained that he wouldn't play ball in my back lot or slide down my cellar door. It may turn out that attributions involving Mazinni and Fuller are "far-fetched" (see response in six comments above). I looked up the lyrics for you, Shirley, because I remember that song, too. In it, they plant and take care of a vegetable garden, NIEHS Office of Communications and Public Liaison, NIEHS Staff: Request an Update of This Webpage. my dolly's got the flu,
Maybe the fact of growing up in Florida where there are no cellars would be factor. I remember my Mother singing this song to me over 70 years ago (I know the time period because of remembering the time period that we lived in a certain house). 1 Playmate Lyrics [Verse 1] Playmate, come out and play with me And bring your dollies, three Climb up my apple tree Look down my rain-barrel Slide down my cellar Slide down my rainbow And we'll be jolly friends forever more Ain't got no rain barrel
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Although, a rain barrel is a good idea today!!! The recording, by Sully Mason, on this album, uses "look down my rain barrel." I've never encountered the song or a sloping cellar door. Look down my rain barrel But we'll be jolly friends
and San Antonio real estate But the bridge on Griffin's version corresponds to the Kay Kyser recording, which is really the source of all modern versions of the song. What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry? Few people living in a city or suburbs would be interested in whole-house rain harvesting systems but for a rural area, they make a lot of sense. We have a large earth tank on an acre that catches run-off, since we haven't had rain there has not been run off. However, not everyone agrees, and I suspect the controversy will never end. This song has been printed from the BusSongs.com website. Queens, NY, 1950s had "Climb down my rain barrel/slide down my cellar door," like Seattle. her eyes brightened and she sang along. They sing it ev'ry where
Im sorry playmate, I cannot play with you/My dollies have the flu/Boo-hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo-hoo/Cant climb your rain barrel/Cant slide down your cellar door/But well Over the years, there have been some musicians and producers who have since tried to spice the music up to create different renditions of the song but the tune and the lyrics are the same most of the time. the throes of dementia. Disclaimer: ActiveRain, Inc. does not necessarily endorse the real estate agents, loan officers and brokers listed on this site. And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. 
Religious Telescope, 1906, I am not desirous of having him slide down my cellar door. Forever more more more more more. At that time we lived on a farm many miles from a town and did not have any modern conveniences. MaryKaye: I think rhotic "cellar door" is pretty euphonious. Interesting Blog..I saw this subject on 60 minutes a year or so ago on how a family lived soley off of rain water Greg, everything old is new again. Its super easy, we promise! Though as to how else all those Italians and Spaniards would be familiar with the phrase. Digest cite Terhune, who was born after Mazzini's death and would have picked it up god-knows-where. And bring your dollies three, Oh little Playmate
Shirley - We haven't had any rain in our area; only a few drops. And then there was an extra hand pat and chant of 'Shut that door!' C always has the value k even before e and i: celeb 'silver' should be pronounced as keleb. 
boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo,
Both are reported nth-hand a a distance of half a century or more from the event, with no intervening record for it. Forever more, more, They sing it ev'ry where And we'll be jolly friends forever more. This system is great for saving on your water bill and yet having enough water to keep your lawn and garden green and vital. Sorry, it looks like you were previously unsubscribed. Forever more, more, more. During the early 1980s in Los Angeles, age-mates and I knew something like the canonical version (cellar door but no rain barrel) as well as an inversion: Say say my enemy Webclimb up my apple tree. (By way of contrast with "beautiful" words for unbeautiful things, there was a suggestion that the German Schmetterling "butterfly" was an ugly word for a beautiful thing. Chandler, AZ 85226
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Cannot annotate a non-flat selection. Can't look down your rain barrel, Or slide down your cellar door. and retained the catchphrase when he took over "The Generation Game" from Bruce Forsyth. And bring your bats three, To make it easier, for younger children or those who have trouble with "cross lateral" movement (reaching across their bodies), the players can clap hands right to left and then left to right, in place of the first two steps. However, not everyone agrees, and I suspect the controversy will never end. Oh little playmate You would not play with me There are about 10,000 rainwater-harvesting systems in Texas, including about 1,000 that serve as the sole water source for a home. When we sang the line in Playmate I would picture a vague, unsatisfactory scene of a kid somehow clasping himself to a vertical wooden door and inching down, trying to avoid splinters. Carl, What kind of tank do you use? WebClimb up my apple tree. No, no, no playmate, I cannot play with you
How we'd slide down some ole cellar door Slide down my razor blade She couldn't come out and play, My dollies have the flu :-). Ain't got no rainbow,
BusSongs.com has the largest collection of, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Nobody Likes Me (Guess I'll Go Eat Worms). And bring your LSD Forever more more more. But we'll be jolly friends, forever more. Oak Park (IL). seems nobody knows. Ain't got no cellar door,
What a Beautiful Morning (G.I. The authors apparently weren't aware that it began life as a commercial song, but they do find it so saccharine for a children's rhyme that they wonder if it was written by adults for children. Is the perception of beauty in "cellar door" related to the perceiver's rhoticity? Well, the dates are suggestive, particularly given that the phrase was literally in air when the claim first emerged, and occasionally, no doubt, mondagreenized into something else (the way later generations often transform "rain barrel" to "rainbow"). 
You can purchase or, if you are handy, construct a rain barrel to collect water to use for gardens, flower pots, and car and window washing. Second verse courtesy of Vicki Leigh: So sorry, But that doesn't explain why the story emerged when it did. WebClimb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. My dollies have the An annotation cannot contain another annotation. with tearful eyes I heard her say,. Boo-hoo-oo-oo-oo. ", There was also a version that went, "I cannot play today, the boy across the way," and ended "it was a boy." We'd fish all day an' fish till night I could hear her say: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you Lock the door. Tolkien actually uses the word Dumbledores in his light-hearted poem "Errantry", in the line "He battled with the Dumbledores, the Hummerhorns and Honeybees". 
. Traditional Children's Song Lyrics and Sound Clip, Hey, hey, oh playmate,
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Forevermore, forevermore. Traditional Children's Song Lyrics and Sound Clip. WebClimb up my apple tree. Can't slide your cellar door [or, Ain't got no cellar door) Slide down my cellar door. And I think it counts for something that the perception of the phrase's beauty requires a regressive capacity, as I put it in the earlier post, to "transcend not just its semantics but its orthography, to recover the pre-alphabetic innocence that comes when we let 'the years of reading fall away,' in Auden's phrase, and attune ourselves with sonorities that are hidden from the ear behind the overlay of writing"that is, you have assume, as the songs ask you to, a child's point of view. Say, say, oh playmate I cannot play with you, My dolly's got the flu Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. It was a rainy day Forever more more more more more. 
She sang it as a child growing up in the Great Depression of the 1930's. Slide down my rain barrel
Below is the one Juanita Ratliff of Sand Springs remembers. I will not play with you Oh PLAYMATE, come out and play with me She believes it was a World War II version. How it started, where it started "Playmates" was a big hit for Philip Wingate and Henry W. Petrie in in 1894, in an age swilling in lachrymose sentimentality about childhood. See see my playmate, Be your own judge when you read the first verse of the song Dowell wrote: There's a catchy little tune a floatin' through the air, You hear it here and there, They sing it ev'rywhere. The version he plays includes an eight-bar "bridge" but I don't know if it corresponds to additional lines in the lyric. And well be jolly friends Thanks for that idea. Here's a slightly earlier (than the above, Jan. 1921) claim for an Italian: And I could hear her say See, e.g., http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-7/thismonth/feature.php: A 1968 article in the Lima (Ohio) News began: Shout down my rain barrel,Slide down my cellar door,And we'll be jolly friends forever more. Modern kids would have a hard time making friends that way, for gone are the rain barrels and outside cellar doors. Most of the older houses in my home town in New England had them, but we called them "bulkheads", never "cellar doors", and yes, we slid down them on our bottoms. I think '70's kids, at least who grow up in the northeast (might have been different in Florida or other parts of the country where cellars/basements were themselves rare due to water-table issues or whatever), were familiar with that older style of cellar door not just from old movies from some real-life examples unless they lived and moved entirely in neighborhoods where all the housing stock was recently constructed. So it's clear that those c's were always intended to be pronounced /k/. It seems no one will agree whether you "look down my rain barrel," "shout down my rain barrel," "holler down my rain barrel," "cry down my rain barrel," or Marty Morgensen, J.A. We had a long dry spell but then got a good shower almost every day for about two weeksand that has now stopped. here's the way it goes. Martha The song apparently passed into children's folklore, and is cited as such in "Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood" (1995), by Josepha Sherman and T.K.F. Shut that door! If you have a problem other readers might help solve or an idea you'd like to share, write to Melba's Swap Shop, Box 25125, Oklahoma City, OK 73125. 
With tears in her eyes I heard her sigh and then I heard her say,
And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. It was a rainy day Contact Shirley Parks with Sands Realty at 210-414-0966 or email shirleyparkshomes@gmail.com. March 22, 2023. I'm a bit confused, because the sources I'm turning up pretty uniformly say that "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" was indeed by Wingate and Petrie in 1894, but that "Playmates" was a 1940s original, with melody stolen from a song called "Iola" and lyrics adapted from "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard". The ubiquity of these attributions makes all of them seem implausible. And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. That claim about Mazzini first shows up as an nth-hand ascription between 50 and 70 years after the last date he could have made the remark, with no intervening reports of it. and we'll be the best of friends, I'm not sure how far this goes back. Climb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. In Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series, there is an island called Selidor, the westernmost island of the West Reach. forever more more more! WebLook down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. WebClimb up my apple tree. 
Cellar door is the same kind of thing, the expression people use to illustrate how civilization and literacy put the primitive sensory experience of language at a remove from conscious experience. Definitions by the largest Idiom Climb up my apple tree,
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'Rain barrel' is completely foreign to this Australian's eyes and ears. Or slide down your cellar door. Dont have an account? And Greece has said to Roumania, "You can't slide down my cellar-door any more.". Since the point of the story is that the beauty of "cellar door" is concealed from Anglophones by its meaning and orthography, it makes dramatic sense to attribute the insight to a speaker of another language who happens on the phrase and isn't distracted by those things often in fact, one who speaks little or no English him- or herself. Slide down my cellar door
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Climb up my apple tree. come out and play with me forever more, more, shut the door. Why is the phrase considered beautiful? Look down my rain-barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more But she couldn't come out and play It was a rainy day With tearful eye she breathed a sigh And I could hear her say I'm sorry, playmate, I cannot play with you My dolly's got the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo Ain't got no rain-barrel, ain't got no cellar door Say, say, oh playmate
With tearful NIEHS Kids' Pages are supported by the NIEHS Office of Communications and Public Liaison. Given that LeGuin, along with many other fantasy writers, demonstrates a fascination with the power of language, I doubt the name is purely coincidental. The original lyrics were: Say, say, oh playmate, The site is secure.The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely. And bring your dollies three
which can only be from a TV presenter's catchphrase of the day. The Fuller and Mazzini attributions strike me as pretty far-fetched. Help us send the best of Considerable to you. We serve all areas of San Antonio, including Alamo Heights, Alamo Ranch, Boerne, Bulverde, Castle Hills, Champions, Cibolo, Converse, Deerfield, The Dominion, Encino Park, Fair Oaks Ranch, Garden Ridge, Helotes, Hill Country Village, Hollywood Park, Inwood, Leon Springs, Monte Vista, Northwest San Antonio, North Central San Antonio, Northwood, Olmos Park, Rogers Ranch, Schertz, Shavano Creek, Shavano Park, Sonterra, Stone Oak, Terrell Hills, Universal City, Ft. Sam Houston, and Randolph AFB. Thats the last instance of the phrase that I can find where it's used that way. Venmo, Cash App and PayPal: Can you really trust your payment app? Can't slide your cellar door [or: Ain't got no cellar door]
I at least was familiar with rain barrels as well as cellar doors that either had the sloping door or steps/a ramp down to a vertical door, and it made complete sense to me that if you wanted to play in an apple tree with dollies, you'd also slide through a rain barrel to the cellar. Ain't got no cellar door,
Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door But what's the diff'rence where it came from, Now that I think of it, in Northeast Phila., it wasn't only a clapping song, it had the most elaborate clap sequence of any of the songs we knew (except maybe the Oreo song, which I never managed to learn). slide down my rainbow
And And we'll be jolly friends
Shout down my rain barrel
And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. I have no rain barrel, I have no *Another one gives the "Come out and play with me" lyrics but assigns them to "I don't want to play in your yard," for example. More, more, more. It is a hard thing to be a czar. climb up my apple tree,
Climb up my apple tree. and we'll be jolly friends forever more But we'll be jolly friends,
Shirley - We capture water (that is if we ever have rain again). forever more, more, lock the door. Search "cellar door bulkhead" in Google Images for visuals. climb up my apple tree. Fortunately for some around us they were more fortunate. Playmate come out and play with me As to the beauty of cellar door I wonder if some element of it may be the presence of the mellifluous liquid "l". For ever more more SHUT THAT DOOR. Look down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door. The version I learned in Tustin, California in about 1970 went: Say, say oh playmate, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. This is just a preview! Suggestive of Celadon in the commedia dell'arte. And we'll be enemies Louisiana Conservation Review, 1940, The Abbe was gentle and courteous, not to say whimsical, and the very soul of cheerfulness, cordiality, and hospitality, but the blunt fact remained that he wouldn't play ball in my back lot or slide down my cellar door. It may turn out that attributions involving Mazinni and Fuller are "far-fetched" (see response in six comments above). I looked up the lyrics for you, Shirley, because I remember that song, too. In it, they plant and take care of a vegetable garden, NIEHS Office of Communications and Public Liaison, NIEHS Staff: Request an Update of This Webpage. my dolly's got the flu,
Maybe the fact of growing up in Florida where there are no cellars would be factor. I remember my Mother singing this song to me over 70 years ago (I know the time period because of remembering the time period that we lived in a certain house). 1 Playmate Lyrics [Verse 1] Playmate, come out and play with me And bring your dollies, three Climb up my apple tree Look down my rain-barrel Slide down my cellar Slide down my rainbow And we'll be jolly friends forever more Ain't got no rain barrel
Please disable blocking extensions so Bussongs.com can provide you 100% experience. And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. Although, a rain barrel is a good idea today!!! The recording, by Sully Mason, on this album, uses "look down my rain barrel." I've never encountered the song or a sloping cellar door. Look down my rain barrel But we'll be jolly friends
and San Antonio real estate But the bridge on Griffin's version corresponds to the Kay Kyser recording, which is really the source of all modern versions of the song. What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry? Few people living in a city or suburbs would be interested in whole-house rain harvesting systems but for a rural area, they make a lot of sense. We have a large earth tank on an acre that catches run-off, since we haven't had rain there has not been run off. However, not everyone agrees, and I suspect the controversy will never end. This song has been printed from the BusSongs.com website. Queens, NY, 1950s had "Climb down my rain barrel/slide down my cellar door," like Seattle. her eyes brightened and she sang along. They sing it ev'ry where
Im sorry playmate, I cannot play with you/My dollies have the flu/Boo-hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo-hoo/Cant climb your rain barrel/Cant slide down your cellar door/But well Over the years, there have been some musicians and producers who have since tried to spice the music up to create different renditions of the song but the tune and the lyrics are the same most of the time. the throes of dementia. Disclaimer: ActiveRain, Inc. does not necessarily endorse the real estate agents, loan officers and brokers listed on this site. And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. Religious Telescope, 1906, I am not desirous of having him slide down my cellar door. Forever more more more more more. At that time we lived on a farm many miles from a town and did not have any modern conveniences. MaryKaye: I think rhotic "cellar door" is pretty euphonious. Interesting Blog..I saw this subject on 60 minutes a year or so ago on how a family lived soley off of rain water Greg, everything old is new again. Its super easy, we promise! Though as to how else all those Italians and Spaniards would be familiar with the phrase. Digest cite Terhune, who was born after Mazzini's death and would have picked it up god-knows-where. And bring your dollies three, Oh little Playmate
Shirley - We haven't had any rain in our area; only a few drops. And then there was an extra hand pat and chant of 'Shut that door!' C always has the value k even before e and i: celeb 'silver' should be pronounced as keleb. boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo,
Both are reported nth-hand a a distance of half a century or more from the event, with no intervening record for it. Forever more, more, They sing it ev'ry where And we'll be jolly friends forever more. This system is great for saving on your water bill and yet having enough water to keep your lawn and garden green and vital. Sorry, it looks like you were previously unsubscribed. Forever more, more, more. During the early 1980s in Los Angeles, age-mates and I knew something like the canonical version (cellar door but no rain barrel) as well as an inversion: Say say my enemy Webclimb up my apple tree. (By way of contrast with "beautiful" words for unbeautiful things, there was a suggestion that the German Schmetterling "butterfly" was an ugly word for a beautiful thing. Chandler, AZ 85226
https://superfunbaby.com/rhymes/oh-playmate-come-out-and-play-with-me-lyrics-and-video Some videos may not be played. Cannot annotate a non-flat selection. Can't look down your rain barrel, Or slide down your cellar door. and retained the catchphrase when he took over "The Generation Game" from Bruce Forsyth. And bring your bats three, To make it easier, for younger children or those who have trouble with "cross lateral" movement (reaching across their bodies), the players can clap hands right to left and then left to right, in place of the first two steps. However, not everyone agrees, and I suspect the controversy will never end. Oh little playmate You would not play with me There are about 10,000 rainwater-harvesting systems in Texas, including about 1,000 that serve as the sole water source for a home. When we sang the line in Playmate I would picture a vague, unsatisfactory scene of a kid somehow clasping himself to a vertical wooden door and inching down, trying to avoid splinters. Carl, What kind of tank do you use? WebClimb up my apple tree. No, no, no playmate, I cannot play with you
How we'd slide down some ole cellar door Slide down my razor blade She couldn't come out and play, My dollies have the flu :-). Ain't got no rainbow,
BusSongs.com has the largest collection of, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Nobody Likes Me (Guess I'll Go Eat Worms). And bring your LSD Forever more more more. But we'll be jolly friends, forever more. Oak Park (IL). seems nobody knows. Ain't got no cellar door,
What a Beautiful Morning (G.I. The authors apparently weren't aware that it began life as a commercial song, but they do find it so saccharine for a children's rhyme that they wonder if it was written by adults for children. Is the perception of beauty in "cellar door" related to the perceiver's rhoticity? Well, the dates are suggestive, particularly given that the phrase was literally in air when the claim first emerged, and occasionally, no doubt, mondagreenized into something else (the way later generations often transform "rain barrel" to "rainbow"). You can purchase or, if you are handy, construct a rain barrel to collect water to use for gardens, flower pots, and car and window washing. Second verse courtesy of Vicki Leigh: So sorry, But that doesn't explain why the story emerged when it did. WebClimb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. My dollies have the An annotation cannot contain another annotation. with tearful eyes I heard her say,. Boo-hoo-oo-oo-oo. ", There was also a version that went, "I cannot play today, the boy across the way," and ended "it was a boy." We'd fish all day an' fish till night I could hear her say: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you Lock the door. Tolkien actually uses the word Dumbledores in his light-hearted poem "Errantry", in the line "He battled with the Dumbledores, the Hummerhorns and Honeybees". . Traditional Children's Song Lyrics and Sound Clip, Hey, hey, oh playmate,
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Forevermore, forevermore. Traditional Children's Song Lyrics and Sound Clip. WebClimb up my apple tree. Can't slide your cellar door [or, Ain't got no cellar door) Slide down my cellar door. And I think it counts for something that the perception of the phrase's beauty requires a regressive capacity, as I put it in the earlier post, to "transcend not just its semantics but its orthography, to recover the pre-alphabetic innocence that comes when we let 'the years of reading fall away,' in Auden's phrase, and attune ourselves with sonorities that are hidden from the ear behind the overlay of writing"that is, you have assume, as the songs ask you to, a child's point of view. Say, say, oh playmate I cannot play with you, My dolly's got the flu Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. It was a rainy day Forever more more more more more. She sang it as a child growing up in the Great Depression of the 1930's. Slide down my rain barrel
Below is the one Juanita Ratliff of Sand Springs remembers. I will not play with you Oh PLAYMATE, come out and play with me She believes it was a World War II version. How it started, where it started "Playmates" was a big hit for Philip Wingate and Henry W. Petrie in in 1894, in an age swilling in lachrymose sentimentality about childhood. See see my playmate, Be your own judge when you read the first verse of the song Dowell wrote: There's a catchy little tune a floatin' through the air, You hear it here and there, They sing it ev'rywhere. The version he plays includes an eight-bar "bridge" but I don't know if it corresponds to additional lines in the lyric. And well be jolly friends Thanks for that idea. Here's a slightly earlier (than the above, Jan. 1921) claim for an Italian: And I could hear her say See, e.g., http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-7/thismonth/feature.php: A 1968 article in the Lima (Ohio) News began: Shout down my rain barrel,Slide down my cellar door,And we'll be jolly friends forever more. Modern kids would have a hard time making friends that way, for gone are the rain barrels and outside cellar doors. Most of the older houses in my home town in New England had them, but we called them "bulkheads", never "cellar doors", and yes, we slid down them on our bottoms. I think '70's kids, at least who grow up in the northeast (might have been different in Florida or other parts of the country where cellars/basements were themselves rare due to water-table issues or whatever), were familiar with that older style of cellar door not just from old movies from some real-life examples unless they lived and moved entirely in neighborhoods where all the housing stock was recently constructed. So it's clear that those c's were always intended to be pronounced /k/. It seems no one will agree whether you "look down my rain barrel," "shout down my rain barrel," "holler down my rain barrel," "cry down my rain barrel," or Marty Morgensen, J.A. We had a long dry spell but then got a good shower almost every day for about two weeksand that has now stopped. here's the way it goes. Martha The song apparently passed into children's folklore, and is cited as such in "Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood" (1995), by Josepha Sherman and T.K.F. Shut that door! If you have a problem other readers might help solve or an idea you'd like to share, write to Melba's Swap Shop, Box 25125, Oklahoma City, OK 73125. With tears in her eyes I heard her sigh and then I heard her say,
And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. It was a rainy day Contact Shirley Parks with Sands Realty at 210-414-0966 or email shirleyparkshomes@gmail.com. March 22, 2023. I'm a bit confused, because the sources I'm turning up pretty uniformly say that "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" was indeed by Wingate and Petrie in 1894, but that "Playmates" was a 1940s original, with melody stolen from a song called "Iola" and lyrics adapted from "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard". The ubiquity of these attributions makes all of them seem implausible. And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. That claim about Mazzini first shows up as an nth-hand ascription between 50 and 70 years after the last date he could have made the remark, with no intervening reports of it. and we'll be the best of friends, I'm not sure how far this goes back. Climb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. In Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series, there is an island called Selidor, the westernmost island of the West Reach. forever more more more! WebLook down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. WebClimb up my apple tree. Cellar door is the same kind of thing, the expression people use to illustrate how civilization and literacy put the primitive sensory experience of language at a remove from conscious experience. Definitions by the largest Idiom Climb up my apple tree,
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