Okay, please help me find out the title and hopefully the lyrics for this song. All I can remember is
Playmate, come out and play with me
Under the apple tree… then there is something about a cellar door or something
I will love you forever if you can help. Thanks
Well, I don’t know how much help it is, but this song is on the Addams Family movie score. It is referred to as “Playmates.”
I’m just very scared to Google “Playmates” from the computer I use ( it’s a work one)
Try googling more of the words and you’ll find it. Like this one…
this is a job for the fossils of us among the Dopers.
i think this was a popular song that pre-dates me. what fragments i can recall (to help narrow down Goggle-ing, if nothing else):
Playmate
Come out and play with me
My dolly’s got the flu
Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Come climb my drain pipe
Slide down my cellar door
And we’ll be jolly friends
Forevermore
there’s a final verse (i think) that goes
Ain’t got no drain pipe
Aiin’t got no cellar door
But we’ll be jolly friends
Forevermore
Okay, now I am bound to be your servant forever more. Thank you so much. I guess I am a crappy searcher.
My mom used to sing us that song and I love it.
Both of you I will be both your servants. Order me around
My version goes:
Say say oh playmate,
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree
Slide down my rain barrel
Into my cellar door
And we’ll be jolly friends
Forever more, one two three four one two three four!
It was a clapping game that my cousin taught me when I was about 5 years old.
Cool, I’ve never had a servant before 
I don’t know if I will be a very good one. I shall stand up for you all in any board snafus, fetch your virtual refreshments, etc. Use your imagination
Consarn it, mlerose, that was my version! Now I have no servant! :mad:
Thanks everyone. You guys totally kick started my memory. I think the version my mom sang said " Swing down my apple tree" because I always used to think that was weird. Also, something about a rain barrel (sp?) I never knew other people knew it as a clapping game. My mom just used to sing it as a lullaby or such. Good times, good times
It’s a children’s clapping game. The lyrics have already been posted, but here’s a link to a site the includes the clapping instructions.
In recent years “slide down my rain barrel” has morphed into “slide down my rainbow.” Of course, nobody knows what a rain barrel is anymore.
(Or “shout down my rain barrel,” or whatever it was originally. Sliding down the cellar door makes more sense.)
My mom used to sing this to me, too! Her version was like mlerose’s, but it was a lullaby, not a clapping game.
We did the version that has:
“Shout down my rain barrel
Slide down my cellar door”
My dad explained to me that you shout in the rain barrel (at the bottom of a pipe from the gutters, used to collect water, as opposed to using the water pump) because it echoed. The cellar doors at my grandparents were set above the ground at an angle–you climbed up steps to get to the outside, and pushed the doors up to get out–somewhat like the storm cellar in the Wizard of Oz. You could slide down them, if you didn’t mind slivers…
Merrily’s sounds closest to the one I heard.