look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door

(*I was unreliably informed by the friend who taught me the latter version that sycamore trees have very scratchy bark. Wine Journeys 1949. Make sure your selection Oak Park (IL). I am Australian (and nearly 40 years old) and I have never heard of this verse at all! Lock the door. Somewhere along the way the friend-one and the enemy-one seem to have got a bit jumbled. What might occur out of sight in the darkness of a cellar? Traditional Children's Song Lyrics and Sound Clip, Hey, hey, oh playmate, Ain't got no cellar door And there I'll lock you up See see my playmate, 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 BILCO Basement Doors Growing up in Seattle, USA, we had roughly the version given here (with "climb down my rain barrel/ Into my cellar door"I don't think Seattle ever had external cellar doors so we had no idea what to make of this). 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. 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. What does look down the barrel expression mean? Oops, saved too soon. forever more, more, shut the door. say cellar playmate oh door I must admit complete ignorance of this. What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry? Forever more more more. 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. Although, a rain barrel is a good idea today!!! Digest cite Terhune, who was born after Mazzini's death and would have picked it up god-knows-where. forever more. 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 and bring your DOLLIES three But we'll be jolly friends forever more. Oh, and by the way, rain barrels are illegal in Bend, OR, also. Climb up my apple tree, And bring your bats three, 7 once-controversial TV episodes that wouldnt cause a stir today, 150 of the most compelling opening lines in literature, 14 facts about I Love Lucy, plus our five other favorite episodes. Find TX real estate agents But we'll be jolly friends forever more, Willie Nelson Lyrics provided by SongLyrics.com. I heard the song from my mother as a kid. I got no rain barrel, I got no cellar door. Oh! her eyes brightened and she sang along. 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. Oh little Playmate And bring your dollies three, LOOK down my rain barrel, So it's clear that those c's were always intended to be pronounced /k/. Song parodies are of course very common in children's lore. The recording, by Sully Mason, on this album, uses "look down my rain barrel." The recording, by Sully Mason, on this album, uses "look down my rain barrel.". Few people living in a city or suburbs would be interested in whole-house rain harvesting systems but for a rural area, they make a lot of sense. Towards the end, one child tells the other they cannot join them to play for one reason or another. However, not everyone agrees, and I suspect the controversy will never end. Is my back-yard left irredeemably desolate? AdBlock or similar extension is detected on your device. 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." Ain't got no rain barrel Oh little playmate You would not play with me So, for that matter, would be Dowell's mention of sliding down the cellar door and hollering into the rain barrel, which he obviously didn't come up with independently. With a bent pin for a hook ain't got no rain barrel, In Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series, there is an island called Selidor, the westernmost island of the West Reach. Queens, NY, 1950s had "Climb down my rain barrel/slide down my cellar door," like Seattle. my dolly's got the flu, I cannot play with you, "Playmates" was a big hit for Philip Wingate and Henry W. Petrie in in 1894, in an age swilling in lachrymose sentimentality about childhood. Thanks for that idea. Have your rag dolls and your blue dishes said inexorable adieu to my cellar-door? 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. slide down my cellar door, 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. Make your clothes tear, an' you'll get a lot'a splinters Shut the door. Shirley - We capture water (that is if we ever have rain again). The weatherman thinks we may be inthe pathofmore rain soon that is good. , Commenting on a recent press dispatch Spain has refused the customary permission to the British garrison at Gibraltar to play polo and golf on Spanish territory, the Baltimore Sun says : " This suggests the stern retaliatory methods of childhood : ' You shan't play in my back yard, you shan't slide down my cellar door. Forever more more more more more. Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In), One for My Baby and "One More for the Road". We had a long dry spell but then got a good shower almost every day for about two weeksand that has now stopped. 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 My dolly's got the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo Hey, hey, oh playmate, And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. GN. With tearful Slide down my rainbow Slide down my cellar door My dollys got the flu. I remembered it and started to sing it to her, I'm a bit confused, because the sources I'm turning up pretty uniformly say that "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" was indeed by Wingate and Petrie in 1894, but that "Playmates" was a 1940s original, with melody stolen from a song called "Iola" and lyrics adapted from "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard". Here's a link selling them as "A great way to garden and conserve water, a precious natural resource. I've never encountered the song or a sloping cellar door. WebClimb up my apple tree. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101078190236;view=1up;seq=46 The version he plays includes an eight-bar "bridge" but I don't know if it corresponds to additional lines in the lyric. In 1970's Manchester (England) it was a clapping song, only different by: My dollies have the flu, and we'll be archenemies Climb up my apple tree. but we'll be jolly friends forever more. And we'll be jolly friends . WebClimb up my apple tree Holler down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends Forever evermore. In it, they plant and take care of a vegetable garden, NIEHS Office of Communications and Public Liaison, NIEHS Staff: Request an Update of This Webpage. But that doesn't explain why the story emerged when it did. Slide down my cellar door There are about 10,000 rainwater-harvesting systems in Texas, including about 1,000 that serve as the sole water source for a home. 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