Liverpudlian nonsense prose

[Rena]

Reading this thread stirred many memories of my schooldays as a lot of the sayings and chants used to be used. I remembered whar was the last line of one chant  and it was bugging me all week but I think I have remembered it now 

I made you look, I made you stare
I made the barber cut your hair
He cut it long, he cut it short
He cut it with a knife and fork.

Jean

East Riding, Yorkshire

I made you look
I made you stare
I made you cut the barber's hair
The barber's hair was full of nits,
I made you eat them
All but six.

SO THERE !!  (put your tongue out)   

[Guy H]

Wow! I remember this rhyme, my Grandfather used to say it to us all the time when I was a kid. It’s been hanging in my head for years and decided to Google it and stumbled on this thread, amazing! 😃

I remember it as follows;

Ah-Lah, Chick-a-Lah
Chick-a-Lah, Ah Lah
Ooney Pooney
Ping Pong Piney
Cat-a-go Watski
Chinese Ching

Definitely recall him mentioning it was the Chinese alphabet too! 😊

I wonder if there are any Liverpudlians out there who might be able to answer what may seem to be a rather daft question.   I was born in 1942 and as a young child my mother, who was born and bred in Liverpool, taught me two pieces of nonsense prose.   One went as follows:  “Ar rar chicker rar, chicker rar rooney, rooney pooney ping pong piney, arra karra whisker, chinese chunk”.    I remember liking the other one better as it was more challenging but I can’t bring it to mind.  Does anyone remember anything similar from their childhood?  I would be particularly interested to know the origin.
Rosa

[sarah]

I remember something very similar but growing up in Manchester or Lancashire as it was then.

Sarah

[garstonite]

Just seen this thread - a Garston Liverpool one was
If it took a man in his stocking shoes a week to walk a fortnight ,how many apples in a bunch of grapes ?
no idea where that one came from -
I am 72 and we all said this as kids -
  how much oil could a gumboil boil if a Gumboil could boil oil ?

[Viktoria]

Those nonsense rhymes and the games chants we used to skip to etc were in their own way learning aids .
It is noticeable that the young children who know the old rhymes are early readers , we mostly think of Nursery Rhymes ,but anything that a child memorises enlarges their memory bank and sadly nursery rhymes seem things of the past for many children nowadays.

To be sitting on a parent’s or grandparent’s knee is something special anyway and to be looking at a book or hearing the adult singing rhymes is very close contact learning ,one to one learning.
It pays off .

Sadly it seems to be less usual than in former times.
Progress?
Naaah,!
Viktoria.

[Viktoria]

Reading this thread stirred many memories of my schooldays as a lot of the sayings and chants used to be used. I remembered whar was the last line of one chant  and it was bugging me all week but I think I have remembered it now 

I made you look, I made you stare
I made the barber cut your hair
He cut it long, he cut it short
He cut it with a knife and fork.

Jean

East Riding, Yorkshire

I made you look
I made you stare
I made you cut the barber's hair
The barber's hair was full of nits,
I made you eat them
All but six.

SO THERE !!  (put your tongue out)   
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[Sumi]

What a fun thread! ....brought back long forgotten memories.  Any one from Scottie Road area remember Contents?

Connie, Onnie, Naughty, Tonnie, Eaten, Nellie’s, Toffee, Sticks.

Daft.

[Viktoria]

Did not know the rhyme but isn’t Connie onny Condensed milk, ?
On butties ,mmmmm,especially made the night before ,left between two plates and almost crisp next morning.
Tooth rotting heaven.
Viktoria.

[Sumi]

Yes, it is condensed milk.....don’t remember those butties though.