And we'll be enemies This is just a preview! Definitions by the largest Idiom come out and play with me
Wine Journeys 1949. I would not let an operator that did not have a card, carry my lunch basket or slide down my cellar door: not to say give him a "square" or fix him for a ride over the road. col. 3 end of "Magic" Help us send the best of Considerable to you. 
Minor note: the date to beat for the assertion is not 1905 but 1903. Charles V. Palmer of Oklahoma City says he believes it was written long before 1940. Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. Playmate, My mother sang this to me when I was a child. But come to my rainbow I could hear her say: CHORUS 2: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you. What does look down the barrel expression mean? What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry? My dollie has the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Inasmuch as the observation has been laid to indefinite numbers of speakers of French, Spanish, and Italian, there's no reason at all to credit this particular story. Ain't got no cellar door To supplement Rhoda's comment for those who can't Google: Larry Grayson presented "Shut That Door!" Shopping Medicare in the digital age is as simple as you make it. Isn't that a song? For some reason that old song thatgoes "Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door" isstuck in mymind today. 'I'm sorry Playmate, I can't come out today
GN. 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 Shout down my rain barrel,Slide down my cellar door,And we'll be jolly friends forever more. Modern kids would have a hard time making friends that way, for gone are the rain barrels and outside cellar doors. But we'll be jolly friends Forever more. Google Books and Newspaperarchive turn up numerous hits, which dont tail off until the 1930s or so. And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. Barefoot days, when we were just a kid Or slide down your cellar door. Growing up in Texas we didn't have a cellar door but we did have a rain barrel. "The phrase in question is "holler down our rain barrel,' " she said. WebSay, say, oh playmate, Come out and play with me And bring your dollies three Climb up my apple tree Slide down my rainbow Into my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends Forever more, 1-2-3-4 It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out and play With tearful eyes, she breathed a sigh And I could hear her say: Say, say, oh playmate I cannot play with you My dolly's got Look down my rain barrel
You can purchase or, if you are handy, construct a rain barrel to collect water to use for gardens, flower pots, and car and window washing. Forever more more more more more. Traditional Children's Song Lyrics and Sound Clip. And slide down my tombstone I'm intrigued to find out that it has words that make sense! The recording, by Sully Mason, on this album, uses "look down my rain barrel." 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. I don't remember exactly where I learned these, but I sang them in the early 90s: Say, say, oh playmate, Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. My dollies have the flu and through my dungeon door, I cannot play with you,
Wingate and Petrie followed it up in the same year with an even more popular sequel, I Dont Want to Play in Your Yard, which containted the phrase Youll be sorry when you see me sliding down our cellar door." 'Cellar door' makes more sense to late 20th century ears, and perhaps movies such as "The Wizard of Oz" and "Arsenic and Old Lace" help keep the concept of a sloped cellar door alive. Cellar door is the same kind of thing, the expression people use to illustrate how civilization and literacy put the primitive sensory experience of language at a remove from conscious experience. So sorry, playmate I cannot play with you My dollys got Come out and play with me. So Dowell could have written it, which means that the pre-1940 "cellar door" references are all to "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard." but we'll be jolly friends forever more. No, no, no playmate, I cannot play with you
(Mazzini died in 1872.) And I could hear her say, Harry Golden, a columnist of the '60s, wrote that "cellar door" was the most mellifluous phrase in the English language. During the early 1980s in Los Angeles, age-mates and I knew something like the canonical version (cellar door but no rain barrel) as well as an inversion: Say say my enemy We serve all areas of San Antonio, including Alamo Heights, Alamo Ranch, Boerne, Bulverde, Castle Hills, Champions, Cibolo, Converse, Deerfield, The Dominion, Encino Park, Fair Oaks Ranch, Garden Ridge, Helotes, Hill Country Village, Hollywood Park, Inwood, Leon Springs, Monte Vista, Northwest San Antonio, North Central San Antonio, Northwood, Olmos Park, Rogers Ranch, Schertz, Shavano Creek, Shavano Park, Sonterra, Stone Oak, Terrell Hills, Universal City, Ft. Sam Houston, and Randolph AFB. See, e.g., http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-7/thismonth/feature.php: Ain't got no rain-barrel, ain't got no cellar door Frankly, I find nothing unusually appealing out it (70ish, SoAmE). And bring your dollies three
It doesnt seem like a lot, but it will go a long way to removing that rain barrel smell. Many of the old treasures have parodistic versions, and "Playmates" didn't escape. It was a rainy day 
I cannot play with you,
and through my cellar door, We proudly assist clients in every price range throughout the greater San Antonio metropolitan area as well as across the nation. With tearful eye, she breathed a sigh slide down my cellar door,
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Climb up my apple tree, Well, playmate, come out and play with me. Yeah, what Victoria Simmons posted was how I learned it, other than the first line was "Say say oh playmate." It was a sunny day My dolly's got the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo Ain't got no rain barrel, Weblook down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. As to the beauty of cellar door I wonder if some element of it may be the presence of the mellifluous liquid "l". She believes it was a World War II version. It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play,
Some think the words are "Slide down my rain barrel" We would appreciate any help you can give us about the correct words to this song. I objected strenuously that "Citeron" was more like a car than an archvillain, and since I was the campaign chronicler, I had the last word. For this reason c has been preferred to k in both Eldarin languages. Interesting Blog..I saw this subject on 60 minutes a year or so ago on how a family lived soley off of rain water Greg, everything old is new again. With tearful eyes and tender sighs
So far as I am concerned he can stay in his own back-yard, his own puddle or whatever his habitat may be. Oh Hitler Come out and fight with me Bring your armies three Climb up my hand grenade tree Look down my gun barrel Slide down my powerhouse door And we'll be enemies Forevermore. There have been laws against harvesting rainwater in a number of states for quite a while, but in general the laws are becoming more lenient. I cannot play with you. holler down my rainbarrel
and we'll be jolly friends
To make it easier, for younger children or those who have trouble with "cross lateral" movement (reaching across their bodies), the players can clap hands right to left and then left to right, in place of the first two steps. And there I'll lock you up I am Australian (and nearly 40 years old) and I have never heard of this verse at all! And then there was an extra hand pat and chant of 'Shut that door!' Well, the dates are suggestive, particularly given that the phrase was literally in air when the claim first emerged, and occasionally, no doubt, mondagreenized into something else (the way later generations often transform "rain barrel" to "rainbow"). Before sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal government site. Munseysmagazine, 1901, And Greece has said to Roumania, "You can't slide down my cellar-door any more." It was a sunny day, she couldn't come out to play
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. So sorry playmate,
Hey, hey, oh playmate, WebClimb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. It scans so badly it makes me wonder if it has changed tunes. (Families that lived in areas that had frequent strong storms and tornadoes may have dug out larger cellars for themselves that would also double as a place for their family to run to for storm protection, but those larger ones were not typical to my childhood experience.) I could hear her say: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you Words and music by Saxie Dowell | Copyright 1940 by Santly-Joy-Select Inc. And baby kangaroo WebClimb up my apple tree. Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. And I will lock you in Also no one thought to replace "jolly. Slide down my rain barrel
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And bring your [?? 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 "which can only be from a TV presenter's catchphrase of the day.". And we'll be jolly friends, and bring your dollies three,
Nelson also has it in an old songbook called, "102 Songs of the Gay '90s." Both are reported nth-hand a a distance of half a century or more from the event, with no intervening record for it. Into my cellar door How we'd slide down some ole cellar door 
The undeniable charm of the story the source of the enchantment that C. S. Lewis reported when he saw, I would not let an operator that did not have a card, carry my lunch basket or slide down my cellar door: not to say give him a "square" or fix him for a ride over the road. But we'll be jolly friends,
Ha, so Jen in Edinburgh had the same SHUT THAT DOOR as we did in Manchester. 
Can't slide your cellar door [or: Ain't got no cellar door]
Are you sure you want to report this blog entry as spam? WebClimb up my apple tree. GN. and San Antonio real estate Contact Shirley Parks with Sands Realty at 210-414-0966 or email shirleyparkshomes@gmail.com. We'd go down to the shady brook National Review, 1898, If you see my friend Prince Krapotpin tell him I should be glad to have him holler down my rain barrel or slide down my cellar door any time. @MaryKaye: In Appendix E, Tolkien says explicitly, "The High-Elven Quenya has been spelt as much like Latin as its sounds allowed. Cry down my rain barrel, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo,
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Forever more. I'm sorry playmate I cannot play with you. But I admit it's more euphonious than our 'water tank' and the Brit's 'water butt'! Climb up my apple tree,
WebLyrics: Hey, hey, oh playmate, Come out and play with me And bring your dollies three Climb up my apple tree Slide down my rain barrel Into my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends I've never heard any version of this song before, and am mystified as to why "cellar door" should be considered beautiful. Boo-hoo-oo-oo-oo. 
Not that I had a rain barrel nor cellar door growing up. Barefoot days, O boy, the things we did 
For ever more, more, more-more-more. How it started, where it started I've thought that was interesting for a kid's idea of what an opposite is. It shows the verse in question as follows: Say, say, oh playmate, come out and play with me, And bring your dollies three, Climb up my apple tree, Cry down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door, And we'll be jolly friends forevermore. Louisiana Conservation Review, 1940, The Abbe was gentle and courteous, not to say whimsical, and the very soul of cheerfulness, cordiality, and hospitality, but the blunt fact remained that he wouldn't play ball in my back lot or slide down my cellar door. Look down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door. 
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1002C&L=ADS-L&P=R3824&I=-3&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches In the world of fantasy, that role is suggested literally in the form of a rabbit hole, a wardrobe, a brick wall at platform 9. Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. As a child, I thought of the cellar door as the entryway to the dankness, slithering insects, and unnameable horrors lurking in the basement. Is there something wrong with me that I can't imagine how "Slide down my cellar door" could possibly sound innocent to an adult (or even a teenager)? Ain't got no rain barrel Ain't got no cellar door, But we'll be jolly friends Forever more more more more more. ActiveRain, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content in these profiles, And I think it counts for something that the perception of the phrase's beauty requires a regressive capacity, as I put it in the earlier post, to "transcend not just its semantics but its orthography, to recover the pre-alphabetic innocence that comes when we let 'the years of reading fall away,' in Auden's phrase, and attune ourselves with sonorities that are hidden from the ear behind the overlay of writing"that is, you have assume, as the songs ask you to, a child's point of view. So far as I am concerned he can stay in his own back-yard, his own puddle or whatever his habitat may be. Here's a slightly earlier (than the above, Jan. 1921) claim for an Italian: Can't climb your rain barrel, [or: Ain't got no rain barrel]
It's an archaic word for 'bumblebees'. I heard the song from my mother as a kid. There's a catchy little tune a floatin' through the air, I cannot play with you
So sorry playmate,
boo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo
forever more, more, shut the door. What a Beautiful Morning (G.I. Apparently I grew up in a vacuum. forever more, more, lock the door. come out and play wiyh me
*Another one gives the "Come out and play with me" lyrics but assigns them to "I don't want to play in your yard," for example. My dollies have the And we'll be jolly friends Tolkein made that connection in a letter:"The element (n)dor 'land', probably owes something to say such names as Labrador (a name that might as far as style and structure goes be Sindarin)." and we'll be the best of friends, I'm guessing that the open-syllable structure has something to do with it, and I've heard similar claims about other languages thought to be "beautiful" to the ear, i.e. And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. My dollies have the flu, Oh Johnny playmate
And A screen can be installed on top of the barrel to keep out mosquitoes, bugs, leaves, and other debris. But we'll be jolly friends Is there some generalization to be made here about a lack of flexibility in children's application of labels? And we'll be jolly friends forever more. So sorry, playmateI cannot play with youMy dollys got the fluBoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. 'Rain barrel' is completely foreign to this Australian's eyes and ears. Oh no my playmate I can't come play with you My dollies have the flu Boo hoo boo hoo Can't holler down rain barrels Or slide down a cellar door But well be jolly friends Forever evermore. Boo-hoo-oo-oo-oo. Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In), One for My Baby and "One More for the Road". boo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo
It would be 50+ years after the death of Fuller in 1850. I don't know that song from childhood, but I did know about cellar doors, so the image was clear. And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. And bring your dolly too Oh PLAYMATE, come out and play with me Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. Shout down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door, And we'll be jolly friends Forever more more more more more. The once melodious rain barrel answers hollow and despairing to my plaints.. that are written by the members of this community. WebLook down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door, and we'll be jolly friends forever more She couldn't come out and play, It was a sunny day With tearful eye, she breathed a sigh Over the years, there have been some musicians and producers who have since tried to spice the music up to create different renditions of the song but the tune and the lyrics are the same most of the time. 111 T.W. climb up my apple tree. with Sands Realty at 210-414-0966 or email, San Antonio Homes ~ Houses and Apartments, What to Investigate Before Purchasing a House. 
And bring your dollies, three Incidentally, my D&D group used to fight over whether Tolkien would have pronounced words like "celador" with an initial "k." I remember my startlement when I finally saw how the GM was writing the name of my elven arch-nemesis: I had "Khyteron" throughout my notes, he had "Citeron." AdBlock or similar extension is detected on your device. Climb up my apple tree,
Shout down my rain barrel, Look down my rain barrel
All rights reserved. (pause) Many local agencies also conduct workshops where you can learn to build a barrel. And bring your dollies three
Into my coffin door. 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. 
Oh little Playmate
At least that's what I've been told. With tears in her eyes I heard her sigh and then I heard her say,
Some videos may not be played. Digest cite Terhune, who was born after Mazzini's death and would have picked it up god-knows-where. Although, a rain barrel is a good idea today!!! And well be jolly friends forever more. Now that I think of it, in Northeast Phila., it wasn't only a clapping song, it had the most elaborate clap sequence of any of the songs we knew (except maybe the Oreo song, which I never managed to learn). This game plays like solitaire but the action is competitive and challenges your brain to keep track of all the cards. and we'll be jolly friends forever more. 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Minor note: the date to beat for the assertion is not 1905 but 1903. Charles V. Palmer of Oklahoma City says he believes it was written long before 1940. Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. Playmate, My mother sang this to me when I was a child. But come to my rainbow I could hear her say: CHORUS 2: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you. What does look down the barrel expression mean? What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry? My dollie has the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Inasmuch as the observation has been laid to indefinite numbers of speakers of French, Spanish, and Italian, there's no reason at all to credit this particular story. Ain't got no cellar door To supplement Rhoda's comment for those who can't Google: Larry Grayson presented "Shut That Door!" Shopping Medicare in the digital age is as simple as you make it. Isn't that a song? For some reason that old song thatgoes "Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door" isstuck in mymind today. 'I'm sorry Playmate, I can't come out today
GN. 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 Shout down my rain barrel,Slide down my cellar door,And we'll be jolly friends forever more. Modern kids would have a hard time making friends that way, for gone are the rain barrels and outside cellar doors. But we'll be jolly friends Forever more. Google Books and Newspaperarchive turn up numerous hits, which dont tail off until the 1930s or so. And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. Barefoot days, when we were just a kid Or slide down your cellar door. Growing up in Texas we didn't have a cellar door but we did have a rain barrel. "The phrase in question is "holler down our rain barrel,' " she said. WebSay, say, oh playmate, Come out and play with me And bring your dollies three Climb up my apple tree Slide down my rainbow Into my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends Forever more, 1-2-3-4 It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out and play With tearful eyes, she breathed a sigh And I could hear her say: Say, say, oh playmate I cannot play with you My dolly's got Look down my rain barrel
You can purchase or, if you are handy, construct a rain barrel to collect water to use for gardens, flower pots, and car and window washing. Forever more more more more more. Traditional Children's Song Lyrics and Sound Clip. And slide down my tombstone I'm intrigued to find out that it has words that make sense! The recording, by Sully Mason, on this album, uses "look down my rain barrel." 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. I don't remember exactly where I learned these, but I sang them in the early 90s: Say, say, oh playmate, Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. My dollies have the flu and through my dungeon door, I cannot play with you,
Wingate and Petrie followed it up in the same year with an even more popular sequel, I Dont Want to Play in Your Yard, which containted the phrase Youll be sorry when you see me sliding down our cellar door." 'Cellar door' makes more sense to late 20th century ears, and perhaps movies such as "The Wizard of Oz" and "Arsenic and Old Lace" help keep the concept of a sloped cellar door alive. Cellar door is the same kind of thing, the expression people use to illustrate how civilization and literacy put the primitive sensory experience of language at a remove from conscious experience. So sorry, playmate I cannot play with you My dollys got Come out and play with me. So Dowell could have written it, which means that the pre-1940 "cellar door" references are all to "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard." but we'll be jolly friends forever more. No, no, no playmate, I cannot play with you
(Mazzini died in 1872.) And I could hear her say, Harry Golden, a columnist of the '60s, wrote that "cellar door" was the most mellifluous phrase in the English language. During the early 1980s in Los Angeles, age-mates and I knew something like the canonical version (cellar door but no rain barrel) as well as an inversion: Say say my enemy We serve all areas of San Antonio, including Alamo Heights, Alamo Ranch, Boerne, Bulverde, Castle Hills, Champions, Cibolo, Converse, Deerfield, The Dominion, Encino Park, Fair Oaks Ranch, Garden Ridge, Helotes, Hill Country Village, Hollywood Park, Inwood, Leon Springs, Monte Vista, Northwest San Antonio, North Central San Antonio, Northwood, Olmos Park, Rogers Ranch, Schertz, Shavano Creek, Shavano Park, Sonterra, Stone Oak, Terrell Hills, Universal City, Ft. Sam Houston, and Randolph AFB. See, e.g., http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-7/thismonth/feature.php: Ain't got no rain-barrel, ain't got no cellar door Frankly, I find nothing unusually appealing out it (70ish, SoAmE). And bring your dollies three
It doesnt seem like a lot, but it will go a long way to removing that rain barrel smell. Many of the old treasures have parodistic versions, and "Playmates" didn't escape. It was a rainy day I cannot play with you,
and through my cellar door, We proudly assist clients in every price range throughout the greater San Antonio metropolitan area as well as across the nation. With tearful eye, she breathed a sigh slide down my cellar door,
These included Esther Reding, Shawnee; Clara Forsythe, Chickasha; Leona Tanner, Moore; Kay Bruner, Norman; Isabelle Evans, Lois Gogl, Lawton; Mrs. W.C. Hopson, Shattuck; Jean Vann, Muskogee; Virginia Stephenson, Ponca City; Arlene Buffin, Edith Gill, Retha Bierschank, Oklahoma City. slide down my rainbow
Climb up my apple tree, Well, playmate, come out and play with me. Yeah, what Victoria Simmons posted was how I learned it, other than the first line was "Say say oh playmate." It was a sunny day My dolly's got the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo Ain't got no rain barrel, Weblook down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. As to the beauty of cellar door I wonder if some element of it may be the presence of the mellifluous liquid "l". She believes it was a World War II version. It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play,
Some think the words are "Slide down my rain barrel" We would appreciate any help you can give us about the correct words to this song. I objected strenuously that "Citeron" was more like a car than an archvillain, and since I was the campaign chronicler, I had the last word. For this reason c has been preferred to k in both Eldarin languages. Interesting Blog..I saw this subject on 60 minutes a year or so ago on how a family lived soley off of rain water Greg, everything old is new again. With tearful eyes and tender sighs
So far as I am concerned he can stay in his own back-yard, his own puddle or whatever his habitat may be. Oh Hitler Come out and fight with me Bring your armies three Climb up my hand grenade tree Look down my gun barrel Slide down my powerhouse door And we'll be enemies Forevermore. There have been laws against harvesting rainwater in a number of states for quite a while, but in general the laws are becoming more lenient. I cannot play with you. holler down my rainbarrel
and we'll be jolly friends
To make it easier, for younger children or those who have trouble with "cross lateral" movement (reaching across their bodies), the players can clap hands right to left and then left to right, in place of the first two steps. And there I'll lock you up I am Australian (and nearly 40 years old) and I have never heard of this verse at all! And then there was an extra hand pat and chant of 'Shut that door!' Well, the dates are suggestive, particularly given that the phrase was literally in air when the claim first emerged, and occasionally, no doubt, mondagreenized into something else (the way later generations often transform "rain barrel" to "rainbow"). Before sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal government site. Munseysmagazine, 1901, And Greece has said to Roumania, "You can't slide down my cellar-door any more." It was a sunny day, she couldn't come out to play
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. So sorry playmate,
Hey, hey, oh playmate, WebClimb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. It scans so badly it makes me wonder if it has changed tunes. (Families that lived in areas that had frequent strong storms and tornadoes may have dug out larger cellars for themselves that would also double as a place for their family to run to for storm protection, but those larger ones were not typical to my childhood experience.) I could hear her say: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you Words and music by Saxie Dowell | Copyright 1940 by Santly-Joy-Select Inc. And baby kangaroo WebClimb up my apple tree. Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. And I will lock you in Also no one thought to replace "jolly. Slide down my rain barrel
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. And bring your [?? 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 "which can only be from a TV presenter's catchphrase of the day.". And we'll be jolly friends, and bring your dollies three,
Nelson also has it in an old songbook called, "102 Songs of the Gay '90s." Both are reported nth-hand a a distance of half a century or more from the event, with no intervening record for it. Into my cellar door How we'd slide down some ole cellar door The undeniable charm of the story the source of the enchantment that C. S. Lewis reported when he saw, I would not let an operator that did not have a card, carry my lunch basket or slide down my cellar door: not to say give him a "square" or fix him for a ride over the road. But we'll be jolly friends,
Ha, so Jen in Edinburgh had the same SHUT THAT DOOR as we did in Manchester. Can't slide your cellar door [or: Ain't got no cellar door]
Are you sure you want to report this blog entry as spam? WebClimb up my apple tree. GN. and San Antonio real estate Contact Shirley Parks with Sands Realty at 210-414-0966 or email shirleyparkshomes@gmail.com. We'd go down to the shady brook National Review, 1898, If you see my friend Prince Krapotpin tell him I should be glad to have him holler down my rain barrel or slide down my cellar door any time. @MaryKaye: In Appendix E, Tolkien says explicitly, "The High-Elven Quenya has been spelt as much like Latin as its sounds allowed. Cry down my rain barrel, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo,
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Forever more. I'm sorry playmate I cannot play with you. But I admit it's more euphonious than our 'water tank' and the Brit's 'water butt'! Climb up my apple tree,
WebLyrics: Hey, hey, oh playmate, Come out and play with me And bring your dollies three Climb up my apple tree Slide down my rain barrel Into my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends I've never heard any version of this song before, and am mystified as to why "cellar door" should be considered beautiful. Boo-hoo-oo-oo-oo. Not that I had a rain barrel nor cellar door growing up. Barefoot days, O boy, the things we did For ever more, more, more-more-more. How it started, where it started I've thought that was interesting for a kid's idea of what an opposite is. It shows the verse in question as follows: Say, say, oh playmate, come out and play with me, And bring your dollies three, Climb up my apple tree, Cry down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door, And we'll be jolly friends forevermore. Louisiana Conservation Review, 1940, The Abbe was gentle and courteous, not to say whimsical, and the very soul of cheerfulness, cordiality, and hospitality, but the blunt fact remained that he wouldn't play ball in my back lot or slide down my cellar door. Look down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door. http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1002C&L=ADS-L&P=R3824&I=-3&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches In the world of fantasy, that role is suggested literally in the form of a rabbit hole, a wardrobe, a brick wall at platform 9. Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. As a child, I thought of the cellar door as the entryway to the dankness, slithering insects, and unnameable horrors lurking in the basement. Is there something wrong with me that I can't imagine how "Slide down my cellar door" could possibly sound innocent to an adult (or even a teenager)? Ain't got no rain barrel Ain't got no cellar door, But we'll be jolly friends Forever more more more more more. ActiveRain, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content in these profiles, And I think it counts for something that the perception of the phrase's beauty requires a regressive capacity, as I put it in the earlier post, to "transcend not just its semantics but its orthography, to recover the pre-alphabetic innocence that comes when we let 'the years of reading fall away,' in Auden's phrase, and attune ourselves with sonorities that are hidden from the ear behind the overlay of writing"that is, you have assume, as the songs ask you to, a child's point of view. So far as I am concerned he can stay in his own back-yard, his own puddle or whatever his habitat may be. Here's a slightly earlier (than the above, Jan. 1921) claim for an Italian: Can't climb your rain barrel, [or: Ain't got no rain barrel]
It's an archaic word for 'bumblebees'. I heard the song from my mother as a kid. There's a catchy little tune a floatin' through the air, I cannot play with you
So sorry playmate,
boo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo
forever more, more, shut the door. What a Beautiful Morning (G.I. Apparently I grew up in a vacuum. forever more, more, lock the door. come out and play wiyh me
*Another one gives the "Come out and play with me" lyrics but assigns them to "I don't want to play in your yard," for example. My dollies have the And we'll be jolly friends Tolkein made that connection in a letter:"The element (n)dor 'land', probably owes something to say such names as Labrador (a name that might as far as style and structure goes be Sindarin)." and we'll be the best of friends, I'm guessing that the open-syllable structure has something to do with it, and I've heard similar claims about other languages thought to be "beautiful" to the ear, i.e. And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. My dollies have the flu, Oh Johnny playmate
And A screen can be installed on top of the barrel to keep out mosquitoes, bugs, leaves, and other debris. But we'll be jolly friends Is there some generalization to be made here about a lack of flexibility in children's application of labels? And we'll be jolly friends forever more. So sorry, playmateI cannot play with youMy dollys got the fluBoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. 'Rain barrel' is completely foreign to this Australian's eyes and ears. Oh no my playmate I can't come play with you My dollies have the flu Boo hoo boo hoo Can't holler down rain barrels Or slide down a cellar door But well be jolly friends Forever evermore. Boo-hoo-oo-oo-oo. Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In), One for My Baby and "One More for the Road". boo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo
It would be 50+ years after the death of Fuller in 1850. I don't know that song from childhood, but I did know about cellar doors, so the image was clear. And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. And bring your dolly too Oh PLAYMATE, come out and play with me Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. Shout down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door, And we'll be jolly friends Forever more more more more more. The once melodious rain barrel answers hollow and despairing to my plaints.. that are written by the members of this community. WebLook down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door, and we'll be jolly friends forever more She couldn't come out and play, It was a sunny day With tearful eye, she breathed a sigh Over the years, there have been some musicians and producers who have since tried to spice the music up to create different renditions of the song but the tune and the lyrics are the same most of the time. 111 T.W. climb up my apple tree. with Sands Realty at 210-414-0966 or email, San Antonio Homes ~ Houses and Apartments, What to Investigate Before Purchasing a House. And bring your dollies, three Incidentally, my D&D group used to fight over whether Tolkien would have pronounced words like "celador" with an initial "k." I remember my startlement when I finally saw how the GM was writing the name of my elven arch-nemesis: I had "Khyteron" throughout my notes, he had "Citeron." AdBlock or similar extension is detected on your device. Climb up my apple tree,
Shout down my rain barrel, Look down my rain barrel
All rights reserved. (pause) Many local agencies also conduct workshops where you can learn to build a barrel. And bring your dollies three
Into my coffin door. 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. Oh little Playmate
At least that's what I've been told. With tears in her eyes I heard her sigh and then I heard her say,
Some videos may not be played. Digest cite Terhune, who was born after Mazzini's death and would have picked it up god-knows-where. Although, a rain barrel is a good idea today!!! And well be jolly friends forever more. Now that I think of it, in Northeast Phila., it wasn't only a clapping song, it had the most elaborate clap sequence of any of the songs we knew (except maybe the Oreo song, which I never managed to learn). This game plays like solitaire but the action is competitive and challenges your brain to keep track of all the cards. and we'll be jolly friends forever more. 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