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the song “do your ears hang low” has recently started really annoying me. my daughter came home singing it and I just can get over the nonsense lyrics. any other songs come to mind?
There was a crooked man, who walked a crooked mile,
who found a crooked sixpence against a crooked style,
he bought a crooked cat , who caught a crooked mouse ,
and they all lived together in a little crooked house.
Stupidity shebestupidity.
We are better off with Torah Ave or Baruch learns about Brochos
Goes to show what Toychan the Goyshe chinuch has
john jacob jingleheimer shmidt his name is my name too three four, and whenever he’d go out the people would always shout, there goes john jacob jingle heimer shmidt la la la la la la la
i know a song that gets on everybody nerves
Yeah, but they get lots of car donations…
ttto Do your ears hang low
Is your beard five foot three? Does it itch you like a flea? Can you tie it to a dock? Can you tie it to a tree? Does it rustle when you scratch it? Can you cut it with a hatchet? Does your beard hang low?
how about rock-a-bye baby on a treetop….down will come baby cradle and all.
WHy would such a song be used to soothe babies, its has pretty depressing and frightening words!
Little Miss Muffit
Humpty Dumpty
And any other Mother Goose rhymes.
And there are some songs I thought were pointless but I actually use now, like the multiplication tables I learnt in third grade, and the provinces of Canada…
how about the hokey pokey
hokey pokey is an exercise song
in 1st grade we learnt this song when we saw a mouse in class. the teacher had all of us stand on our chairs and scream this song in hebrew. I’ll just type out the english translation:
mouse, mouse, listen to me
or else the cat will come quickly!
He has teeth! He has lips!
Mouse, mouse, run, run, run!
Was funny, but now that i look back, its strange.
in 1st grade we learnt this song when we saw a mouse in class. the teacher had all of us stand on our chairs and scream this song in hebrew. I’ll just type out the english translation:
mouse, mouse, listen to me
or else the cat will come quickly!
He has teeth! He has lips!
Mouse, mouse, run, run, run!
That reminds me…
“Three blind mice…see how they run…”
I can’t finish the rest it’s too horrid.
Poster, I changed the last two lines of Rockabye baby davka because it sounded so nasty. I sing to my grandchildren, “when the bough breaks, the cradle won’t fall, ki Hashem Elokeinu Shomer al hakol.”
The dumb song I knew as a child, was marezeydotes and dozedotes. I am NOT reprinting it. And foirget about the fee wittle fishies that fam and fam all over the dam.
Another version of Do your ears hang low:
Do your eyeballs droop/ Do they wobble in your soup?
Can you tie them in a hoop?
Can you tie them in a loop?
Can you wear them over you shoulder
Just like a soldier?
Do your eyeballs droop?
mimzee:
Yah we sang that one in school!
I ran around the corner and I ran around the block
And I ran right in to a bakery shop
And I asked for a donut
And I wiped off the grease
And I handed over a five cent piece.
She looked at the nickel and she looked at me,
And she said to me, “Can you plainly see,
There’s a hole in the nickel, there’s a hole right through!”
And I said, “There’s a hole in the donut too!
Thanks for the donut, good-bye!”
I actually thought it was cute. At least compared to half the other rhymes we sang in school….
There’s a hole in the bucket, Dear liza
And also, all those versions of “On top of old smokey”
What’s so bad about Mairzy Doats and Doazy Doats?
Oomis, what a beautiful ending to that song
I am actually going through a nisayon now, and those words are bringing me chizzuk. so thank you.
Fellow posters: In Henglish we say “LEARNED” not learnt. BTW-I read recently that the fellow who wrote the Hokey Pokey died. They had a very difficult time burying him. When they went to put him in the coffin, he put his right foot in and he shook it all about….
Yes, little kids’ songs are silly- because they’re intended for that audience! Children that little won’t appreciate some witty or inspiring lyrics- they like goofy, silly things, with rhythm and rhymes so it’s easy to remember and sing along. I grew up singing “Do your ears hang low” as an ‘exercise/warmup’ song in daycamp- I remember we all loved to do all the motions along with it. Yes, there are some horrid ones, I don’t remember singing (or being sung) any of them all that often. But in my experience, and from spending time with many little children in my time as a counselor, nursery teacher, aunt, big sister, babysitter, etc. etc. etc., the sillier the song and lyrics, the more little kids like and appreciate it.
how about the song “chester have you heard from harry, just came back from teh army, i hear he knows how to wash his cloths hip hip horray for the army”
rotzeh – what language is Henglish?
(also, I think it’s “learned” in the US and “learnt” in England/Canada, but I could be totally wrong)
“Are You a Good Jew”
TTTO Do Your Ears Hang Low
(I don’t really know how the end of the tune goes so the following stanzas are each just the first part of the tune and then the next stanza starts over again. For instance, in Moderator 42’s song it would correspond to “Is your beard five foot three? Does it itch you like a flea? Can you tie it to a dock? Can you tie it to a tree?” and then the next stanza would begin from the beginning of the tune. It might take you a few tries to figure out how to make the spacings and emphases fit the tune, but I assure you they all fit.)
do you learn Gemara
do you say a sevara
do you skip through all the complicated agadita
is it Iyun that you pound
or is your goal to cover ground
what is your derech halimud is it valid is it sound
is it halacha lemaisa
or lomdus like the shev shmaitsa
or perhaps it’s the Slabodka style of Mussar that strikes ya
do you hold like the Rambam
or the Tashbetz’s responsum
about whether taking money is permitted or a problem
do you follow a mesorah
do you listen to Daas Torah
do you ordain female rabbis based on Biblical Devorah
how ’bout Talmud for women
or an all female mezuman
can a lady be the chazzanit in a partnership minyan
are your haskafos krum
even though you seem quite frum
remember it’s a bigger disqualification than a mum
do you consider it baseless
to reinstitute Techeiles
or perhaps it is because for your Tzitzis you want to pay less
what are your standards of kashrus
do you pedestalize yashrus
how much money do you spend do you live a life of pashtus
is it your greatest ambition
for your kids to gain admission
to a school a school that doesn’t take all your life savings for tuition
what’s your stance on metzitza
or a transparent mechitza
would you be open to yibum or do you stick to chalitza
what about the shidduch crisis
does it scare you more than ISIS
when you tell the shadchan no is the look on her face priceless
does your husband put his feet up
when you ask him to help cleanup
are you regretting not insisting on a halachik prenup
how big is your kezayis
do you go on Har Habayis
do you spend nine hours davening a day are you pious
where do you place your reliance
in Chazal or modern science
if they contradict each other which of them gets your compliance
do you create mitzva towers
by doing your chessed hours
do you say lesheim yichud before your erev shabbos showers
did you go to BJJ
because of what people would say
when they see it emphasized on your shidduch resume
if Brooklyn is your home
do you say Shabbat Shalom
or do you refuse to acknowledge the sanctity of the yom
divine omniscience and bechira
how do you resolve the stira
and I need to know if you rely on the heter mechira
would you go to a casino
did you boycott Borsalino
what’s your Jewish perspective on the paradoxes of Zeno
are you a Zionist
or Yeshivish with a twist
Hallel on Yom Ha’atzmaut I think you get the gist
LOL PAA to borrow sirvoddmort’s word “Brilliant”!!!
Thank you cozimjewish. Here is part two:
do you like Miami’s Revach
do you prefer Shwekey’s Shevach
and the most important question do you go away for Pesach
on Purim are you rated
as beyond intoxicated
while you vomit all over a girl you previously dated
do you think there is a niche
for the famous KosherSwitch
or was it just a scam designed to make somebody get quite rich
is it only during adar
when your sense of humor’s hotter
that you spend so many hours darshening on Harry Potter
what about tznius today
does it require a “mayday”
or is it just a little problem that is soon to fade away
secular education
and college matriculation
are they something positive or just a Torah deviation
Is the greatest of all wrongs
to listen to nonjewish songs
and does it make a difference if it’s just a bunch of singalongs
would you still respect your mom
even if she ate chalav stam
does your tefillin order follow Rashi or Rabbeinu Tam
do you stand on your raglayim
for your kiddush club lechayim
but immediately sit for “Avinu Shebashamyim” (the prayer, not God)
do you think there is a hiddur
in davening from a siddur
except if it’s on a smartphone in which case you get quite bitter
Part three:
do you worship the big dipper
do you wear crocks on Yom Kipper
are you one of those who think the IDF is Jack the Ripper
are you following the masses
wearing thick round plastic glasses
is it bittul zman to memorize the list of noble gases
are you dressed like a clown
because you come from out of town
where you can’t stop worrying how you’ll afford a wedding gown
would you recognize an A minor
if it was played at a diner
and who has a better voice Benny Friedman or Simcha Leiner
would you walk into Ramallah
if you heard a cry of “Allah”
is it assur or is it mutar to bake a schlissel challah
do you accrue big summer bills
by going up to the Catskills
while your husband’s in the city trying his homemaking skills
would you say chas vechalila
if you were offered gelila
just because you were the youngest person present for tefilla
are there sports that you would play
if your rabbi said it’s okay
do you think a kosher movie is a stira meenay ubay
do you want to pull a trigger
every time you see your shvigger
even though there’s a chance it will only make the problem bigger
do you think it’s all the same
if someone has an English name
or is it something that is goyish and should be a mark of shame
have you learned through hameiniach
do you believe in mashiach
and is it polite to ask if you’re a masis umediach
Did you learn that as a kid?
I learnt how to spell learned when I was a kid.
oomis and RebYidd23- It’s mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.
No, the song title is Mairzy Doats.
I heard that it came to be that way because so many people thought that’s what it was. Have you googled it? I will try later. I must get ready for work now. But I’m curious to see what the original version REALLY was.
Anyone know the lyrics to the kids song, “We open one eye, we open two, we say Modei Ani cause it means thank you…”
PAA, great stuff there!
SiDi™
There’s this song that my girls picked up in day camp. (Actually they each picked it up independently rom each other at different day camps, so it must be fairly popular.) I find it a bit strange:
In a cabin in the wood,
A little man by the window stood.
Saw a rabbit hopping by,
Knocking at his door.
“Help me! Help me! Help me!” he cried,
“Before the hunters shoot me alive!”
“Come little rabbit, come inside
Safely you’ll abide.”
The song has hand motions for each line, and the song gets repeated a few times, but with each repetition the words to the first line (and then the first and second line, and then the first three lines…) gets replaced with “Hmm Hmm Hmm Hmm.”
Where IS this from?
Part of the lyrics of Mairzy Doats:
If the words sound queer
And funny to your ear,
A little bit jumbled and jivey
Sing “Mares eat oats
And does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy”
We open one eye
we open two
we say Modeh Ani
cause it means thank you
we wash our yadayim
six times, that’s true
that’s what every
Jewish boy and girl
must do
Thanks seedys!
SiDi™
Parody of the sternerg song:
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I’m learning Torah can you call me back?
I see all the Jewish girls dressed in black…
Please leave your name and number at the beep of the tone
Cuz I don’t really have a celluar phone
Omg we grew up on the little rabbit song!!! I think it’s more of an country song as when I went to Sleepaway camp with in town girls no one had heard of it…
But the last line is “safely lullaby” in our version. Than there’s this whole thing with huming thr whole song with hand motions, than certqin parts….it’s an art. Anyone know where oit’s from? I don’t think it has got a Jewish origin.
We had many more songs…I will try to remember them
Does anyone know the song about the word that was able to fit inside a straw, and then you drank it? Something along those lines?
“I said a rick tick tick tick tickity tick…” Everyone must know that one! We used to include the bus driver in ours. They would always ber surprised but would play along.
“Good moring and how are you?
Have you slept, the whole night threw…
Are you ready for a brand new day?”
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