Nursery Rhymes

[jettejjane]

Burk Ives also recorded it, so did Hank Williams.

[IgorStrav]

Burk Ives also recorded it, so did Hank Williams.

BURK Ives? 

Lovely typo there, Jane.  Not sure Burl would have liked it though 

[jettejjane]

Burk Ives also recorded it, so did Hank Williams.

BURK Ives? 

Lovely typo there, Jane.  Not sure Burl would have liked it though 

Oops,
Should have gone to specsavers

[radstockjeff]

schoolboys' ruder version went something like this...

On top of Old Smokey
Where nobody goes
There lies a lady
without any clothes
along comes a cowboy
clippety clop
down with ****************
******************

[jacquelineve]

Radstockjeff
                    Re.On top of Old Smokey

I wrote that down at school, and stupidly just put it in my satchel..Mom found it..and boy..did I
have a "good hiding"

The version I had.."Along came Roy Rogers as bold as a brick"

After about 52yrs..still feel ashamed about Mom  finding it.

Jackie

[jettejjane]

schoolboys' ruder version went something like this...

On top of Old Smokey
Where nobody goes
There lies a lady
without any clothes
along comes a cowboy
clippety clop
down with ****************
******************

Took me a few minutes to fill in the gaps. Think I have it right.
There are a few other versions here is my alternative.

On top of old smokey covered in grass sat a  bald eagle
Scratching his ......
Don't be mistaken
Don't be misled
Coz that bald headed eagle
Was scratching his head.

[CarolA3]

There was an old woman who walked like a duck
Who said she'd invented a new way to
Bring up her children to sew and to knit
While back in the cowshed they shovelled the
Contents of the cowshed from the back to the front
While the milkmaid sat counting the hairs on her
Hand.

[jettejjane]

There was an old woman who walked like a duck
Who said she'd invented a new way to
Bring up her children to sew and to knit
While back in the cowshed they shovelled the
Contents of the cowshed from the back to the front
While the milkmaid sat counting the hairs on her
Hand.

Not sure we can call this a nursery rhyme, more a limerick However it is very clever, worked it out quite quickly. 

Think we straying off the topic, not that I am a prude-far from it. However, my dad did have a wealth of Limericks and Rugby songs but best kept to myself!

[jaybelnz]

Jane, I think that one must have been sung to the tune of "Sweet Violets"!