tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post3490388752302991233..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: "Old Aunt Dinah" & The "Get Up Grandma. You Ain't Sick. All You Need Is A Hickory Stick" Lines In Children's Rhymes Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-89573577180536172872017-05-05T12:18:55.493-04:002017-05-05T12:18:55.493-04:00Example #3 in my May 5, 2017 at 11:07 AM comment w...Example #3 in my May 5, 2017 at 11:07 AM comment was quoted from my cocojams2 blog on children's rhymes. Other examples of "I Like Coffee I Like Tea" are found on that page <a href="https://cocojams2.blogspot.com/2014/10/hand-clap-jump-rope-rhymes-examples-i-j.html" rel="nofollow">https://cocojams2.blogspot.com/2014/10/hand-clap-jump-rope-rhymes-examples-i-j.html</a><br /><br />Also, I just checked the link given for The Cosby Show, "The Slumber Party". That link is still active, but it no longer includes any mention of that hand clap rhyme. Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-77548872284113919472017-05-05T11:07:24.388-04:002017-05-05T11:07:24.388-04:00Instead of the word "stick", the word &q...Instead of the word "stick", the word "quick" is often used in a number of examples of various children's rhymes as a 'near rhyme" for the word "quick".<br /><br />There are LOTS of examples of "sick"/"quick" rhyming verses. Here are three examples:<br /><br />1. From a Black American children's ring game [with one person in the center] that is included in Altona Trent John's 1944 book "Playsongs of the Deep South." <br /><br />WATER-FLOWER<br />Water-flower, water-flower,<br />Growing up so tall,<br />All the young ladies must surely, surely die;<br />All except Miss 'Lindy Watkins,<br />She is everywhere,-<br />The white folks say, the white folks say,<br />Turn your back and tell your beau's name.<br /><br />Doctor, Doctor can you tell<br />What will make poor 'Lindy well?<br />She is sick and 'bout to die,<br />That will make poor Johnnie cry!<br /><br /><i>Marry, marry, marry, quick!<br />'Lindy, you are just love sick!</i><br /><br />Johnnie is a ver' nice man,<br />Comes to the door with hat in hand,<br />Pulls off his gloves and show his rings,<br />'Morrow is the wedding-day."<br />-snip-<br />Italics added by me to highlight that verse. <br /><br />2. From <a href="http://www.wordsforlife.org.uk/miss-polly-had-dolly" rel="nofollow">http://www.wordsforlife.org.uk/miss-polly-had-dolly</a><br /><br /><i>Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick.<br />So she phoned for the doctor to be quick, quick, quick.</i><br />The doctor came with his bag and his hat<br />And he knocked at the door with a rat-a-tat-tat.<br />He looked at the dolly and he shook his head<br />And he said “Miss Polly, put her straight to bed!”<br />He wrote on a paper for a pill, pill, pill<br />“I’ll be back in the morning yes I will, will, will.”<br />-snip-<br />I'm not sure when this rhyme was first chanted, but it may be from the United Kingdom.<br /><br />3. I MET MY BOYFRIEND AT THE CANDY STORE <br />Uno, dos, siesta *<br />I said a-east, a-west<br />I met my boyfriend at the candy store<br />He bought me ice cream, he bought me cake<br />He brought me home with a belly ache<br /><i>Mama mama, I'm so sick <br />Call the doctor quick quick quick</i><br />Doctor, doctor will I die?<br />Count to five and you'll be alive <br />I said, a-one, a-two, a-three, a-four, a-five<br />I'm alive! <br />- Kyle Bryant & Dana Bryant ; (performed as a hand clap game on Season 1, Episode 22 of <i>The Cosby Show</i>; 1984; The Slumber Party, transcription from <a href="http://www.tv.com/the-cosby-show/slumber-party/episode/6816/summary.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tv.com/the-cosby-show/slumber-party/episode/6816/summary.html</a> <br /><br />This rhyme appears to be known outside of many African American communities because of its inclusion on the The Cosby Show. Notice that verses of this rhyme are found in the "I Like Coffee" rhyme that is given above.<br />* This phrase is usually "uno dos tres" ("one, two, three" in Spanish. "Siesta" is a Spanish word that means "nap" in English).<br />-snip-<br />I think that the "sick"/"quick" rhyming lines are used more often now by children than the "sick"/"stick" rhyming lines.Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com