[ceejay]

"Gracie and Sweetie,
Sittin' in the tree.
K I SS I N G.
First came love,
Then came marriage,
Then came Helene in the baby carriage!"

Or...my all-time favorite:

"My mommy told me,
If I was goody,
That she would buy me
a rubber dolly.
My aunty told her
I kissed a soldier.
Now she won't buy me
A rubber dolly.
3, 6, 9 the goose drank wine,
The monkey chewed tobacco
on a street car line.
The line broke,
The monkey got choked,
and they all went to heaven
in a little rowboat...ah huh."

(How come I can remember all that...and now I'm looking all over for my glasses?)

I also remember playing Chinese Jump Rope (with the rubber bands around our ankles...ouch!) and "pitch a milk cap" with my dad.

[Trish Crocker]

Cinderella, dressed in yella, went upstairs to kiss a fella...how many kisses did she receive? one...two...three...............

Ah, to be able to jump rope like that again.

[diskman]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Did you play in the street, the alley or on a vacant lot??? Tell us about playing when you were a kid.

Do you remember the rhymes we said when we jumped rope? Did you choose up teams for stick ball? I was always the last chosen. I know why now. How many skinned knees did you get? I was too chicken to fall out of a tree.

Tag you're it!,

[SALYBOW]

After dinner everyone came to our back yard and player "Evening Games" We played tag, spud, kick the can and that all time favorite "Pussy Wants a Corner." I swear that is really a game. At least it was a game in the East side of Cincinnati.

[jblum315]

When I was very small,in Virginia, I played with the little black kids down the road. They had the best games. But when school started, no more black kids. Different schools. I never saw a black kid again, not even in college.

[tainsley]

Remember the Jingle Jump?

We also would stand around in a circle with our fists out to see who was IT...one potato, two potato, three potato four...and another... my mother punched your mother right in the nose what color was the blood?...and eenie, meenie, minee, moe...