During my infant school years, we wud play a chase and tag game, that here in England we call “had” which consisted of the “it” person having to chase everyone and try to tag them whilst they teased them, and strayed away from the safe haven of “home”.
So imagine the scene, little kids, in playground huddled in a circle, just before such a game, one person starts the rhyme, pointing at each person in turning and reciting aloud the chosen rhyme.
If your pointed at on the last syllable, your not “it, and so it falls, that the last remaining person will be “it”.
This how one of the more eccentric rhymes would have been recited :
Inky pinky ponky
Daddy had a donkey
Donkey died
Daddy cried
Inky pinky ponky
and then we have some base lines that you can add to:
Ip dip dog shit
you are not it!
So here we have an improper version:
Ip dip dog shit
F****** B******* silly git
you are not it!
and something more decent:
Ip dip dog shit
you are not it
Not because your dirty
Not because your clean
But because my mum
Says’ your the fairy queen!
Ahh kids – don’t you just love em?
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remember,your a pig and im a goat you stink and i dont.
skipping rhyme. jump,jump,jump for anna nicholls.in comes kerry at the door,for kerry is the one to have a bit of fun so we dont want anna anymore.repeat,one child skips inside the rope,the next child takes her place etc,etc,so is replaced with each verse inside the skipping rope.
I think these poems are so rude its disgustiing. My kids were looking for some good poems and looked at this page and they are now using the words from this page and they are only 5!
Well you should monitor what your 5 yr old is doing in the first place!
ya i really enjoying the rhyme.&i remebermy childhood
Brought back many happy memories thank you x
Haha…Megan you got F***D int the A**…Your kids probably Hear Stuff Like That From Their Teachers Anyway So Stop QQ H**!
salamuna
I have the strange distinction of having invented inky pinky ponky when I was about nine or ten in 1950/1 to chant to our skipping and ball games. I think I lived in Hemel Hempstead then or it might have been in Wood Green. I had to do a double take when it was quoted recently on the Princes programme and then on Harry Hill! How on earth did it find its way into an Indian Royal household?
what indian royal household?
are u sure u invented it? When i was younger (than i am now) i always thot I had invented the game “stuck in the mud” – later – much later realised i hadn’t.
well i invented blog!!!
Moving on…………..so did u invent the rhyme with the expletives in those days too?
What were the expletives in those days? Oh golly gosh! Or is that too american sounds like i got that from batman and robin – Oh golly gosh batman what are we to do??!!!
what was wood green like in those days? i presume hemel hempsted is pretty much the same……
thts some funny stuff dude i like it
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well im still in my childish years and well i dont really play tag much anymore but we woul some similar rhymes to this like
eenie meenie
macca racca
re ro
doma sha ka
lolli popa
ding dang do. its weird but if u say it fast its catchy
then theres a really rude one everyone says so if ur stupid enough to let your 5 year near a computer then skip this one
ip dip dog shit
****** ******
******* *******
you are not it.