favorite nurserry rymes/ songs

my 2 favorites are:

chick chick chick chick chicken

and sleeping bunnies

these 2 don't get as much recognition as they need to

with the latter, I only heard it when I was older so perhaps it's a newer one.

but chick chick chick chick chicken I knew all my life

I'm fond of a song titled: "Josè embala o menino" ("Joseph Rocks the Baby"). I've heard it performed both by the Portuguese singer: Maria Ana Bobone as well as by the late Spanish vocalist Montserrat Figueras. And I love both versions. (They're both on YouTube, by the way.) And then, speaking of Montserrat Figueras ... she recorded an audio CD of lullabies from a number of countries, covering the period from 1500 to 2002, titled: "Ninna Nanna". Her performance of "Josè embala o menino" is on that CD. It's a favorite. Those probably aren't the sorts of things you had in mind. But they're favorites of mine.

P.S. These aren't nursery rhymes / songs, but if you happen to listen to "Ninna Nanna" & find it to be of interest, there's another audio CD Montserrat Figueras recorded titled "Lux Feminae" ("The Light of Women") that is wonderful too. It's also on YouTube.

The one that has always stuck in my mind (because I couldn't figure out what it was saying until one day it hit me) is:

Mairzy dotes & Dozy dotes & little lamzi divy, kidly divy to wooden shoe.

(Mares eat oats & doe's eat oats & little lambs eat ivy. A kid will eat ivy too, wouldn't you?)

Itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain; and the itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.

this sounds sweet.

and I honestly love the spanish accent, so think I'd really enjoy it

thanks for suggesting

I really like brahms lullaby. I have an instrimental version of it, and the version with lyrics recorded by hayley westenra. I don't think she has the nicest voice (she's okay)

It's been a long time since I thought about them. Since I never had children, I never got the chance to share any. Though not a nursery rhyme or song, one thing I did do to my husband not long ago was common for parents to do to little kids or even babies. They'd grab each toe (one at a time) and say the following:

Big toe: "This little piggy went to the market."

Second toe: "This little piggy stayed home."

Middle toe: "This little piggy had roast beef."

Second to last toe: "This little piggy had none."

Little toe: "This little piggy went 'Wee, wee, wee....all the way home!" [And then usually my mother would run her fingers (like running) all the way from my little toe to my face.

My Czech husband said they do something somewhat similar in Czech Republic.

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A really old song that I always liked surely originated in England, or somewhere in the UK. It is always sung at Christmas time. It goes:

"Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat. Please put a penny in the old man's hat. If you have no penny, a half-penny will do. If you have no half-penny, God Bless You!"

***** Cat, ***** Cat, where have you been?
I've been to London to visit the Queen.
***** Cat, ***** Cat, what did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under her chair.

ETA Oh gosh! I had no idea that would be bleeped out anyway, you all remember the rhyme and know it's quite innocent...I hope.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
So Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?

Arty- Farty had a party, all his friend were there.
Tooty -Fruity let a beauty
And they all dove out for air.

No exactly classic nursery rhymes, but I did love these as a child ..and still do.

wow I have not heard that one in ages

I also like round an round the garden like a teddy bear

1 step, 2 step, tickly under their

I liked so many of them but as a child I thought this one was a good description of me (it was part of my childhood nursery rhyme book):
There was a little girl
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

Go to sleep, go to sleep
Don’t wake me up until morning
Stay asleep, stay asleep
Please let me stay fast asleep

Mary has a little lamb, her fleece was white as snow. Every where that Mary went, her lamb was sure to go.

One potato two potato three potato four
Five potato six potato seven potato more

One two buckle my shoe, three four open the door, five six pick up sticks, seven eight lay them straight, nine ten do it all over again.

When I say one, you say two. When you say two, I say three. Ready, one two three here we go. you’re turn. One two three let’s go.

I never even heard that first one about sleep

interesting..

5 little ducks went swimming 1 day, over the hills and far away.

mother duck said quack quack quack quack,

and only 4 little ducks came back

I really like "Ladybug Ladybug. My nick when I was little was Linniebug because I would constantly bug my maternal granddad with his photography work, especially his dark room.

There was a song we sang in third grade, a song for Halloween. I still remember the words:

Black and gold,
Black and gold,
Nothing in between.
When the world turns
Black and gold
Then it's Halloween.

a sailor went to sea sea sea

pretty boring after a while, but yeah

10 in a bed

5 little speckled frogs

creepy crawly caterpillar

ring a rosey

jack and jill

boo, cackle, trick or treat

it's halloween night on trick or treat street

boo, cackle, trick or treat,

please give us something nice to eat.

one of the very first halloween songs I learned

Trick or Treat, smell my feet
Give me something good to eat
Not too big, not too small
Just the size of Montreal

A bit rude, and we never had the gall to say this to the adults who answered the door when we trick or treated as kids, But we loved saying it at home in the lead-up excitement to Halloween.

I love this!. I have never heard it before either

I know a man who knew a man, who flew to the sun in a frying pan

it got too hot, and he couldn't settle

so he flew back home in a whistling kettle

(chorus)

it's a silly song, and you can sing along

bang to the music and the tune

get a kettle and a frying pan

and bang them with a wooden spoon

"Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,
"To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
"Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
"And she shall have music wherever she goes."

tea time, tea time, come and have some tea

bread and butter, cake and jam, for me, me, me

I had my bread and butter, I had my cake and jam

what is left for supper?

just wait and see

Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb
Whose fleece was white as snow.

And everywhere that Mary went,
Mary went, Mary went,
Everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.

He followed her to school one day,
School one day, school one day,
He followed her to school one day
Which was against the rules.

It made the children laugh and play,
Laugh and play, laugh and play,
It made the children laugh and play,
To see a lamb at school.

And so the teacher turned it out,
Turned it out, turned it out,
And so the teacher turned it out,
But still it lingered near,

He waited patiently about,
Patiently about, patiently about,
He waited patiently about,
Till Mary did appear.

"Why does the lamb love Mary so?
Love Mary so? Love Mary so?
Why does the lamb love Mary so?"
The eager children cried.

"Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know,
Lamb, you know, lamb, you know,
Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know,"
The teacher did reply.

( Mary Had a Little Lamb - Wikipedia )

wasn't it based on a teacher's actual experience of a little girl bringing a lamb in to school?

I'm sure that's the story- it's actually a poem she wrote based on actual events

it's what I've been told anyway. sure wikipedia will correct me if I'm wrong