Thursday 6 May 2010

Skipping song


Vote, vote, vote, for little ------- 
(first named child runs in and starts skipping)
In comes ------- at the door 
(new name runs in and starts skipping too)
------- is the one that we all like best (new name)
We don't like -------  anymore 
(first child runs out)
SHUT THE DOOR!
(second child carries on and a third child runs in 
as you start the rhyme again.)


Well that's how I remember it anyway.












4 comments:

  1. And do you consider your preferred candidate to be useful or beautiful?

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  2. Preferred...hmmm. How long have you got?

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  3. And when I was young, in '60s Edinburgh, there was one that went thus:

    Vote, vote, vote for Mr Hoy
    Who's that knocking at the door?
    If it's Meikie and his wife
    Take a poker and a knife
    And they won't come knocking any more

    I was told that Mr Meikie and Mr Hoy had been candidates many years before. Politics and skipping were rough in those days too!

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  4. Difficult to be enthusiastic about any of them , really .
    But the atmosphere should lighten at the house my elderly aunts share.... one votes Labour , one votes Conservative and the silent battle of wills over the placing of election posters in the front window is is riveting to watch .

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