A skipping song we sang was “Hello Operator”
This is apparantly as far as I ever got! I didn’t remember the rest and when I looked them up I found several versions.*
one version of the rest…
Everybody’s doin’ it doin’ it
Pickin’ their nose and chewin’ it chewin’ it
The king of France
Wet his pants
Right in the middle of a ballroom dance
Chinese, Japanese
Dirty knees
Look at these (said whilst pulling the front of your shirt out to indicate breasts)
Ha! I’ve got a million of 'em!
Gene, Gene made a machine
Frank, Frank, turned the crank
Art, Art, let a fart
and blew the goddamed thing apart!
Help! Murder! police!
My father fell in the grease!
I laughed so hard I fell in the lard
Help! Murder! Police!
And my favorite:
One bright day in the middle of the night
two dead boys got up to fight
back to back they faced each other
drew their swords and shot each other
a deaf policeman heard the noise
and came to kill the two dead boys!
In 1944,
My father went to war,
He picked up a gun, and shot a Hun,
and that was the end of the war!
Based on a 1912 hit song by Irving Berlin, which, ironically, not one grade school kid in 100 million is likely to have ever heard.