come out and play with me
Oh Playmate, come out and play with me
BusSongs.com has the largest collection of, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Nobody Likes Me (Guess I'll Go Eat Worms). Barefoot days, O boy, the things we did In 1970's Manchester (England) it was a clapping song, only different by: Slide down my razorblade Come out and play with me,
WebLook down my rain-barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more But she couldn't come out and play It was a rainy day With tearful eye she breathed a sigh The songs you've voted to be the very best. seems nobody knows. Song parodies are of course very common in children's lore. It goes with lyrics: She couldn't come out and play, Ain't got no RAIN BARREL,
Look down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door. My dollies have the flu. How it started, where it started
But the bridge on Griffin's version corresponds to the Kay Kyser recording, which is really the source of all modern versions of the song. Full lyrics to You Are My Sunshine - first recorded in 1939 by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell. And so much the better if the foreigner's language is one we deem mellifluous, so as to add to his or her authority. 
But we'll be jolly friends forever more. I don't remember exactly where I learned these, but I sang them in the early 90s: Say, say, oh playmate, Second verse courtesy of Vicki Leigh: So sorry, It was a rainy day But why would one assume that some one of these stories has to be true? We serveALL neighborhoods, including Stone Oak, Encino Park, Cibolo Canyons,Deerfield, Rogers Ranch, Sonoma Ranch, Steubing Ranch, Canyon Springs, Alamo Ranch, Champions, Stonewall Ranch, The Dominion, and more. How we'd slide down some ole cellar door Oh little playmate You would not play with me Tolkien actually uses the word Dumbledores in his light-hearted poem "Errantry", in the line "He battled with the Dumbledores, the Hummerhorns and Honeybees". A textbook on language that I remember (vaguely, to be sure) from 8th grade said that someone had claimed that "cellar door" and "cuspidor" were among the most beautiful words in English. I am Australian (and nearly 40 years old) and I have never heard of this verse at all! 
Slide down my cellar door, Suggestive of Celadon in the commedia dell'arte. my dolly's got the flu,
[collected from kids aged 9 and 13 in 1994 in Ontario, Canada]. But this account of the origin will be have be left speculativeunless, or course, someone digs up a pre-1894 citation for the claim, in which case the theory is toast. Forever more, more, more. Fresh new songs recently added to our site. Make sure your selection
If cellar doors of the American type were not a feature of British house construction (and I'm not sure I believe that) then perhaps British speakers of the turn of the last century were introduced to the phrase by that song . . I cannot play with you and bring your warriors three, But I admit it's more euphonious than our 'water tank' and the Brit's 'water butt'! We'd go down to the shady brook Slide down my razor blade I'd love to know how that happened. He believes it was more like 1915. I could hear her say: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you 
So sorry, playmate I cannot play with you. Say, say, archenemy, I'm sorry, Playmate, I cannot play with you Notably, Kyser substituted look down my rain barrel for shout down my rain barrel, the acoustic charms of rain barrels having faded from memory along with the containers themselves, even as sloping exterior cellar doors were becoming scarce. The mumps and measles too A tape, by The Jingleheimers, was played by Cindy Sly of Oklahoma City to discover it says, "slide down my rainbow, slide down my cellar door ". And bring your dollies three. I cannot play with you These are the 5 most addictive substances on the planet, 6 unusual signs you may have heart disease, Infidelity is raging in the 55+ crowd but with a twist, The stuff nobody tells you about a dying pet, 7 bizarre foods people used to like for some reason, Theres a new way to calculate your dogs age in human years, The one word you should never use to start an email. Many of the old treasures have parodistic versions, and "Playmates" didn't escape. Somewhere along the way, a songwriter and singer known as Saxie Dowell paired an old Victorian rhythm with Leslies song to create the masterpiece that we now know today as Say, Say, Oh, Playmate. Using Music to Promote Learning
(It was otherwise G-rated and very obscure, otherwise.). Playmate come out and play with meAnd bring your dollies three,Climb up my apple tree,Look down my rain barrel,Slide down my cellar door,and we'll be jolly friends forever moreShe couldn't come out and play,It was a sunny dayWith tearful eye, she breathed a sighAnd I could hear her say,I'm sorry, playmate,I cannot play with youMy dollies have the flu,Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hooAin't got no rain barrel,Ain't got no cellar doorBut we'll be jolly friends, forever more. Alexander Drive, Durham, NC 27709, How to Build a Rain Barrel | PLUM LANDING, How Mother Bear Taught the Children about Lead, Watch a video of three sisters and their parents. 
When we sang the line in Playmate I would picture a vague, unsatisfactory scene of a kid somehow clasping himself to a vertical wooden door and inching down, trying to avoid splinters. We would have just assumed that a cellar door was the same as the door to the basement. When I was at primary school (Devon, late 90s) it was: See see, my playmate GN. Playmate come out and play with me Slide down my cellar door
Ain't got no rain barrel
I at least was familiar with rain barrels as well as cellar doors that either had the sloping door or steps/a ramp down to a vertical door, and it made complete sense to me that if you wanted to play in an apple tree with dollies, you'd also slide through a rain barrel to the cellar. A rain barrel is a system that collects and stores rainwater from your roof that would otherwise be lost to runoff and diverted to storm drains and streams. 
Fantasy authors do seem to have a liking for proper names with a -dor ending. Ain't got no rain-barrel, ain't got no cellar door This is just a preview! :-). O boy, what joy, we had in barefoot days, http://www.rienzihills.com/SING/B/barefootdays.htm, Here too: http://londonbobby.com/lblyric.htm#bare, Cee cee oh play me With tearful eye she breathed a sigh How it started, where it started seems nobody knows Others sharing included Len Simonds of Oklahoma City who sent a tape of "Playmates" recorded by the Kay Kyser orchestra. WebLook down my rain-barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more But she couldn't come out and play It was a rainy day With tearful eye she breathed a sigh I cannot play with you,
Well, and also, in my version of the song, and therefore the way I was imagining the other versions, the doors are open, so you couldn't slide down them anyway. Hey, hey, oh playmate,Come out and play with meAnd bring your dollies threeClimb up my apple tree. Since the point of the story is that the beauty of "cellar door" is concealed from Anglophones by its meaning and orthography, it makes dramatic sense to attribute the insight to a speaker of another language who happens on the phrase and isn't distracted by those things often in fact, one who speaks little or no English him- or herself. Look down my rain barrel
Words and music by Saxie Dowell | Copyright 1940 by Santly-Joy-Select Inc. And bring your dollies three. The Wikipedia article quotes a 1903 novel called Gee-Boy which points out that no association of ideas is involved in the perceived loveliness of "cellar door", since actual cellar doors are solely American. Shut the door. And I could hear her say I cannot play with you. WebClimb up my apple tree Holler down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends Forever evermore. boo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo
Slide down my cellar door, Slide down the drainpipe my dolly's got the flu,
forever more. Forever more, more, [I suppose ad infinitum is assumed] "Celadore" would be the most romantic spelling, if you ask me. And bring your dollies three, My neighbor's is so thoroughly frozen now that I doubt if you could shout down it maybe next summer. Climb up my hippie tree forever more more more! My little enemy, WebClimb up my apple tree. However, they remind them that they will remain friends, even though they cannot come out to play immediately. As her world's westernmost isle (not to mention the abode of dragons), it's a highly romanticized place, to the extent that Earthsea's equivalent of "Once upon a time" is "As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor". You hear it here and there, Now she is 92 years old and languishing in an elder care home deep in Climb up my apple tree, WebOh Playmate, come out and play with me And bring your dollies three. We proudly assist clients in every price range throughout the greater San Antonio metropolitan area as well as across the nation. I'm sorry, playmate, Look down my rain barrel And bring your bats three, Frankly, I find nothing unusually appealing out it (70ish, SoAmE). WebClimb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. At that time we lived on a farm many miles from a town and did not have any modern conveniences. she couldn't come out and play,
Climb up my apple tree. An annotation cannot contain another annotation. Any thoughts on the notion itself that there is something uniquely euphonic about (non-rhotic) "cellar door"? Climb up my apple tree. What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry? It's an archaic word for 'bumblebees'. It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, With tearful eyes and tender sighs I could I wouldn't expect to see anybody make the connection explicit, all the more if they were going to tell a story about having heard the claim from some foreigner. Towards the end, one child tells the other they cannot join them to play for one reason or another. I am not desirous of having him slide down my cellar door. With tears in her eyes I heard her sigh and then I heard her say,
And bring your dollies three, Forever more, "Dungeon door" doesn't have the mellifluousness of "cellar door", but maybe that's the childhood nostalgia talking. With tearful eyes and tender sighs
here's the way it goes. I cannot play with you
BRIDGE: It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, With tearful eyes and tender sighs. Fortunately for some around us they were more fortunate. GeorgeW said: "Out of curiosity, what is so alluring about sliding down a cellar door? The song figures a couple of times in the 1981 Warren Beatty movie Reds, most unforgettably as sung by Peggy Lee. 1 Playmate Lyrics [Verse 1] Playmate, come out and play with me And bring your dollies, three Climb up my apple tree Look down my rain-barrel Slide down my cellar Aint got no rain barrelAint got no cellar doorBut well be jolly friendsForever more, more, more. And I could hear her say, "I'm sorry playmate" etc. Shirley - We haven't had any rain in our area; only a few drops. Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends My dollies have the flu, slide down my cellar door,
How it started, where it started Both are reported nth-hand a a distance of half a century or more from the event, with no intervening record for it. I'm sorry playmate I cannot play with you. When I heard the cliche about this phrase being considered as sounding exceptionally beautiful, I assumed it had something to do with French "d' or". Ain't got no cellar door
I posted on the phrase a few years ago ("The Romantic Side of Familiar Words"), suggesting that there was a reason why linguistic folklore fixed on that particular phrase, when you could make the same point with other pedestrian expressions like linoleum or oleomargarine: The undeniable charm of the story the source of the enchantment that C. S. Lewis reported when he saw cellar door rendered as Selladore lies the sudden falling away of the repressions imposed by orthography to reveal what Dickens called "the romantic side of familiar things." Lit. GN. Can't slide your cellar door [or: Ain't got no cellar door]
March 22, 2023. Well, she couldn't come out and play It was a sunny day,
And bring your LSD Climb up my apple tree See, e.g., http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-7/thismonth/feature.php: my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door I must admit complete ignorance of this. (The lyric above takes 16 measures in the song.). Nelson also has it in an old songbook called, "102 Songs of the Gay '90s." Climb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. It seems deeply pointless without the clapping. Weisskopf, pp 99-100. But what's the diff'rence where it came from, Yeah, what Victoria Simmons posted was how I learned it, other than the first line was "Say say oh playmate." Look down my rain barrel, And bring your dollies three. Elizibeth Thank you fr those lyrics.My mother used to sing that song for me when I was just a we oneI am now 75 years young.That is a testimoney as to how old that song is. But come to my rainbow (*I was unreliably informed by the friend who taught me the latter version that sycamore trees have very scratchy bark. But you must'n tell where WebSlide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more But she couldn't come out and play It was a rainy day With tearful eye she breathed a sigh And I could hear her say I'm sorry, playmate, I cannot play with you My dolly's got the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo Hasn't got no rain-barrel, hasn't got no cellar door memory fails] But the darn ole fish refuse to bite Forever more. col. 3 end of "Magic" The ubiquity of these attributions makes all of them seem implausible. 2. climb up my apple tree,
The act? Climb up my apple tree,
Queens, NY, 1950s had "Climb down my rain barrel/slide down my cellar door," like Seattle. And bring your dollies three
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But the bridge on Griffin's version corresponds to the Kay Kyser recording, which is really the source of all modern versions of the song. Full lyrics to You Are My Sunshine - first recorded in 1939 by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell. And so much the better if the foreigner's language is one we deem mellifluous, so as to add to his or her authority. But we'll be jolly friends forever more. I don't remember exactly where I learned these, but I sang them in the early 90s: Say, say, oh playmate, Second verse courtesy of Vicki Leigh: So sorry, It was a rainy day But why would one assume that some one of these stories has to be true? We serveALL neighborhoods, including Stone Oak, Encino Park, Cibolo Canyons,Deerfield, Rogers Ranch, Sonoma Ranch, Steubing Ranch, Canyon Springs, Alamo Ranch, Champions, Stonewall Ranch, The Dominion, and more. How we'd slide down some ole cellar door Oh little playmate You would not play with me Tolkien actually uses the word Dumbledores in his light-hearted poem "Errantry", in the line "He battled with the Dumbledores, the Hummerhorns and Honeybees". A textbook on language that I remember (vaguely, to be sure) from 8th grade said that someone had claimed that "cellar door" and "cuspidor" were among the most beautiful words in English. I am Australian (and nearly 40 years old) and I have never heard of this verse at all! So sorry, playmate I cannot play with you. Say, say, archenemy, I'm sorry, Playmate, I cannot play with you Notably, Kyser substituted look down my rain barrel for shout down my rain barrel, the acoustic charms of rain barrels having faded from memory along with the containers themselves, even as sloping exterior cellar doors were becoming scarce. The mumps and measles too A tape, by The Jingleheimers, was played by Cindy Sly of Oklahoma City to discover it says, "slide down my rainbow, slide down my cellar door ". And bring your dollies three. I cannot play with you These are the 5 most addictive substances on the planet, 6 unusual signs you may have heart disease, Infidelity is raging in the 55+ crowd but with a twist, The stuff nobody tells you about a dying pet, 7 bizarre foods people used to like for some reason, Theres a new way to calculate your dogs age in human years, The one word you should never use to start an email. Many of the old treasures have parodistic versions, and "Playmates" didn't escape. Somewhere along the way, a songwriter and singer known as Saxie Dowell paired an old Victorian rhythm with Leslies song to create the masterpiece that we now know today as Say, Say, Oh, Playmate. Using Music to Promote Learning
(It was otherwise G-rated and very obscure, otherwise.). Playmate come out and play with meAnd bring your dollies three,Climb up my apple tree,Look down my rain barrel,Slide down my cellar door,and we'll be jolly friends forever moreShe couldn't come out and play,It was a sunny dayWith tearful eye, she breathed a sighAnd I could hear her say,I'm sorry, playmate,I cannot play with youMy dollies have the flu,Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hooAin't got no rain barrel,Ain't got no cellar doorBut we'll be jolly friends, forever more. Alexander Drive, Durham, NC 27709, How to Build a Rain Barrel | PLUM LANDING, How Mother Bear Taught the Children about Lead, Watch a video of three sisters and their parents. When we sang the line in Playmate I would picture a vague, unsatisfactory scene of a kid somehow clasping himself to a vertical wooden door and inching down, trying to avoid splinters. We would have just assumed that a cellar door was the same as the door to the basement. When I was at primary school (Devon, late 90s) it was: See see, my playmate GN. Playmate come out and play with me Slide down my cellar door
Ain't got no rain barrel
I at least was familiar with rain barrels as well as cellar doors that either had the sloping door or steps/a ramp down to a vertical door, and it made complete sense to me that if you wanted to play in an apple tree with dollies, you'd also slide through a rain barrel to the cellar. A rain barrel is a system that collects and stores rainwater from your roof that would otherwise be lost to runoff and diverted to storm drains and streams. Fantasy authors do seem to have a liking for proper names with a -dor ending. Ain't got no rain-barrel, ain't got no cellar door This is just a preview! :-). O boy, what joy, we had in barefoot days, http://www.rienzihills.com/SING/B/barefootdays.htm, Here too: http://londonbobby.com/lblyric.htm#bare, Cee cee oh play me With tearful eye she breathed a sigh How it started, where it started seems nobody knows Others sharing included Len Simonds of Oklahoma City who sent a tape of "Playmates" recorded by the Kay Kyser orchestra. WebLook down my rain-barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more But she couldn't come out and play It was a rainy day With tearful eye she breathed a sigh I cannot play with you,
Well, and also, in my version of the song, and therefore the way I was imagining the other versions, the doors are open, so you couldn't slide down them anyway. Hey, hey, oh playmate,Come out and play with meAnd bring your dollies threeClimb up my apple tree. Since the point of the story is that the beauty of "cellar door" is concealed from Anglophones by its meaning and orthography, it makes dramatic sense to attribute the insight to a speaker of another language who happens on the phrase and isn't distracted by those things often in fact, one who speaks little or no English him- or herself. Look down my rain barrel
Words and music by Saxie Dowell | Copyright 1940 by Santly-Joy-Select Inc. And bring your dollies three. The Wikipedia article quotes a 1903 novel called Gee-Boy which points out that no association of ideas is involved in the perceived loveliness of "cellar door", since actual cellar doors are solely American. Shut the door. And I could hear her say I cannot play with you. WebClimb up my apple tree Holler down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends Forever evermore. boo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo
Slide down my cellar door, Slide down the drainpipe my dolly's got the flu,
forever more. Forever more, more, [I suppose ad infinitum is assumed] "Celadore" would be the most romantic spelling, if you ask me. And bring your dollies three, My neighbor's is so thoroughly frozen now that I doubt if you could shout down it maybe next summer. Climb up my hippie tree forever more more more! My little enemy, WebClimb up my apple tree. However, they remind them that they will remain friends, even though they cannot come out to play immediately. As her world's westernmost isle (not to mention the abode of dragons), it's a highly romanticized place, to the extent that Earthsea's equivalent of "Once upon a time" is "As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor". You hear it here and there, Now she is 92 years old and languishing in an elder care home deep in Climb up my apple tree, WebOh Playmate, come out and play with me And bring your dollies three. We proudly assist clients in every price range throughout the greater San Antonio metropolitan area as well as across the nation. I'm sorry, playmate, Look down my rain barrel And bring your bats three, Frankly, I find nothing unusually appealing out it (70ish, SoAmE). WebClimb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. At that time we lived on a farm many miles from a town and did not have any modern conveniences. she couldn't come out and play,
Climb up my apple tree. An annotation cannot contain another annotation. Any thoughts on the notion itself that there is something uniquely euphonic about (non-rhotic) "cellar door"? Climb up my apple tree. What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry? It's an archaic word for 'bumblebees'. It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, With tearful eyes and tender sighs I could I wouldn't expect to see anybody make the connection explicit, all the more if they were going to tell a story about having heard the claim from some foreigner. Towards the end, one child tells the other they cannot join them to play for one reason or another. I am not desirous of having him slide down my cellar door. With tears in her eyes I heard her sigh and then I heard her say,
And bring your dollies three, Forever more, "Dungeon door" doesn't have the mellifluousness of "cellar door", but maybe that's the childhood nostalgia talking. With tearful eyes and tender sighs
here's the way it goes. I cannot play with you
BRIDGE: It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, With tearful eyes and tender sighs. Fortunately for some around us they were more fortunate. GeorgeW said: "Out of curiosity, what is so alluring about sliding down a cellar door? The song figures a couple of times in the 1981 Warren Beatty movie Reds, most unforgettably as sung by Peggy Lee. 1 Playmate Lyrics [Verse 1] Playmate, come out and play with me And bring your dollies, three Climb up my apple tree Look down my rain-barrel Slide down my cellar Aint got no rain barrelAint got no cellar doorBut well be jolly friendsForever more, more, more. And I could hear her say, "I'm sorry playmate" etc. Shirley - We haven't had any rain in our area; only a few drops. Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends My dollies have the flu, slide down my cellar door,
How it started, where it started Both are reported nth-hand a a distance of half a century or more from the event, with no intervening record for it. I'm sorry playmate I cannot play with you. When I heard the cliche about this phrase being considered as sounding exceptionally beautiful, I assumed it had something to do with French "d' or". Ain't got no cellar door
I posted on the phrase a few years ago ("The Romantic Side of Familiar Words"), suggesting that there was a reason why linguistic folklore fixed on that particular phrase, when you could make the same point with other pedestrian expressions like linoleum or oleomargarine: The undeniable charm of the story the source of the enchantment that C. S. Lewis reported when he saw cellar door rendered as Selladore lies the sudden falling away of the repressions imposed by orthography to reveal what Dickens called "the romantic side of familiar things." Lit. GN. Can't slide your cellar door [or: Ain't got no cellar door]
March 22, 2023. Well, she couldn't come out and play It was a sunny day,
And bring your LSD Climb up my apple tree See, e.g., http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-7/thismonth/feature.php: my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door I must admit complete ignorance of this. (The lyric above takes 16 measures in the song.). Nelson also has it in an old songbook called, "102 Songs of the Gay '90s." Climb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. It seems deeply pointless without the clapping. Weisskopf, pp 99-100. But what's the diff'rence where it came from, Yeah, what Victoria Simmons posted was how I learned it, other than the first line was "Say say oh playmate." Look down my rain barrel, And bring your dollies three. Elizibeth Thank you fr those lyrics.My mother used to sing that song for me when I was just a we oneI am now 75 years young.That is a testimoney as to how old that song is. But come to my rainbow (*I was unreliably informed by the friend who taught me the latter version that sycamore trees have very scratchy bark. But you must'n tell where WebSlide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more But she couldn't come out and play It was a rainy day With tearful eye she breathed a sigh And I could hear her say I'm sorry, playmate, I cannot play with you My dolly's got the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo Hasn't got no rain-barrel, hasn't got no cellar door memory fails] But the darn ole fish refuse to bite Forever more. col. 3 end of "Magic" The ubiquity of these attributions makes all of them seem implausible. 2. climb up my apple tree,
The act? Climb up my apple tree,
Queens, NY, 1950s had "Climb down my rain barrel/slide down my cellar door," like Seattle. And bring your dollies three
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