tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post3900880261811100..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Song Sources For The Children's Rhymes Verse "I Wish I Had A Nickel; I Wish I Had A Dime" & Some Examples Of That Verse In Recreational RhymesAzizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-40315292883385168502023-08-18T12:49:54.307-04:002023-08-18T12:49:54.307-04:00The Carolina Chocolate Drops recorded the song &qu...The Carolina Chocolate Drops recorded the song "Trouble In Your Mind" in 2010. The first verse of that song is "I wished I had a nickel, I wished I had a dime/I wish I had me a pretty girl, you know I'd call her mine."<br /><br />Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzombejhLUo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzombejhLUo</a> for a 2009 YouTube video of The Carolina Chocolate Drops performing that song. Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-22522908168741605672017-03-15T09:51:50.015-04:002017-03-15T09:51:50.015-04:00Here's an example of an Alpha Kappa Alpha Soro...Here's an example of an Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. [AKA] chant that I found which prompted me to do this research on the line "I wish I had a nickel, I wish I had a dime" in songs and rhymes:<br /><br />U wish u had a nickel<br />U wish u had a dime<br />U wish u had an AKA<br />To love U all the time<br />U wish u had a quarter<br />U wish u had a dollar<br />U wish u had an AKA<br />To Make u scream and Holla<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.aka.uwa.edu/chants.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.aka.uwa.edu/chants.htm</a><br />-snip-<br />"Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc." is a historically Black Greek letter sorority. <br /><br />This chant clearly has its source in the "I wish I had a nickel; I wish I had a dime" line in jump rope/hand clap rhymes. And those rhymes have their source in floaters from such African American origin fiddle songs as "Cindy" and "Old Joe Clark".<br />Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-75381877552283336922017-03-15T09:45:05.369-04:002017-03-15T09:45:05.369-04:00Here's a somewhat more risque variant form of ...Here's a somewhat more risque variant form of "I wish I had a nickel, I wish I had a dime children's rhyme:<br />"r in the meadow the bees r in the park, Miss susy's with her bf, kissing in the D-A-R-K(X2) dark(X3). darker than the ocean, darker than the sea, darker than the underwear my mama gave to me, I kno I kno my mom, I kno I kno my dad, I kno I kno my sister with the porterican bra, my mom gave me a quarter, my dad gave me a dime, my sister gave me a boyfriend, his name is frankenstein, he made me wash the dishes, he made me wash the walls, he made me wash his underwear I kicked him in the balls." <br /><br />Source: buttercup2u, 2012, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXsN73k8wUw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXsN73k8wUw</a> Miss susie had a steamboat, and ANDREA CANT STOP LAUGHING<br />-snip-<br />r= are<br />bf = boyfriend<br /><br />I had to read this a couple of times before I realized that "porterican bra" meant "Puerto Rican bra".Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com