But we'll be jolly friends, forever more. I am Australian (and nearly 40 years old) and I have never heard of this verse at all! But I admit it's more euphonious than our 'water tank' and the Brit's 'water butt'! forever more. Their folk version has the rainbow: Ceecee, my playmate, WebPlaymate Lyrics. The first time I heard of "celador" as something special was when "Who wants to be a Millionaire" premiered in the US. Ain't got no rain barrel
and bring your dollies three,
(It was otherwise G-rated and very obscure, otherwise.). Climb up my apple tree, 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. But that doesn't explain why the story emerged when it did. Opinions may differ on this point.). And I could hear her say, The once melodious rain barrel answers hollow and despairing to my plaints.. Slide down my cellar door
forever more, more, lock the door. Youll bring your dollies three, And bring your dollies three
Forever more. These were two person clapping game songs, with the final repetitions on "more" being very emphatic two-hand claps with partner. Google Books and Newspaperarchive turn up numerous hits, which dont tail off until the 1930s or so. 
And I could hear her say, "I'm sorry playmate" etc. But we'll be jolly friends forever more, Willie Nelson Lyrics provided by SongLyrics.com. WebClimb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. How it started, where it started seems nobody knows Others sharing included Len Simonds of Oklahoma City who sent a tape of "Playmates" recorded by the Kay Kyser orchestra. Oh little playmate You would not play with me 
Sound combination? The version I learned in Tustin, California in about 1970 went: Say, say oh playmate, I cannot play with you,
I'd love to know how that happened. My dolly's got the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo And we'll be jolly friends forever more. 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. The song figures a couple of times in the 1981 Warren Beatty movie Reds, most unforgettably as sung by Peggy Lee. My dollie has the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
In 1970's Manchester (England) it was a clapping song, only different by: It's funny, although what I have always envisioned when singing this song was those angled cellar doors, when I originally read this post, I had absolutely no idea what it meant to slide down a cellar door. And we'll be jolly friends, My dollies have the flu, Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. 
Say, Say my playmate
(By way of contrast with "beautiful" words for unbeautiful things, there was a suggestion that the German Schmetterling "butterfly" was an ugly word for a beautiful thing. An annotation cannot contain another annotation. BRIDGE: It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, With tearful eyes and tender sighs. Look down my rain-barrel Ain't got no rain barrel Ain't got no cellar door, But we'll be jolly friends Forever more more more more more. I'm reminded of Dennis Potter's statement in The Singing Detective that the single most beautiful world in the English language is elbow. Charles L. Johnson sued and there was an out of court settlement. I don't remember exactly where I learned these, but I sang them in the early 90s: Say, say, oh playmate, 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. And bring your dollies three, Traditional Children's Song Lyrics and Sound Clip, Hey, hey, oh playmate,
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means. is that Tolkien originally spelled all those Elvish names with K, and changed them to C shortly before publication because he wanted them to look more "Latin". 
These real estate profiles, blogs and blog entries are provided here as a courtesy to our visitors to help them Oh PLAYMATE, come out and play with me And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. With tearful eyes and tender sighs Some think the words to the old song, "Little Playmate," are "Come holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door, and we'll be jolly friends forevermore." Climb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. 
We had a long dry spell but then got a good shower almost every day for about two weeksand that has now stopped. Its like being told that an international panel of musicologists had definitively determined that the most beautiful song ever written was My Sharona.. climb up my apple tree. And I will lock you in I think '70's kids, at least who grow up in the northeast (might have been different in Florida or other parts of the country where cellars/basements were themselves rare due to water-table issues or whatever), were familiar with that older style of cellar door not just from old movies from some real-life examples unless they lived and moved entirely in neighborhoods where all the housing stock was recently constructed. boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo,
I've never actually seen one in person and it didn't occur to me that one could be used as a slide. Ain't got no cellar door A Songs for Teaching
Frankly, I find nothing unusually appealing out it (70ish, SoAmE). I must admit complete ignorance of this. Harry Golden, a columnist of the '60s, wrote that "cellar door" was the most mellifluous phrase in the English language. 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. BusSongs.com has the largest collection of, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Nobody Likes Me (Guess I'll Go Eat Worms). Is the perception of beauty in "cellar door" related to the perceiver's rhoticity? Anne Rachel-Dowell. We'd go down to the shady brook Well, playmate, I cant come play with you. https://www.pdinfo.com/PD-Song-List/PD-Song-List-Best-I.php Forever more, "Dungeon door" doesn't have the mellifluousness of "cellar door", but maybe that's the childhood nostalgia talking. 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. It is a hard thing to be a czar. In various forms, slide down my cellar door became a kind of catchphrase to suggest innocent friendship. There was then a response: So sorry playmate The slant of the cellar door or doors was so that during heavy rain, the rain would run off of them and minimize dampness to the cellar's contents. 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"). forever more more more! Designed for the new generation of older adults who are redefining what it means to age and are looking forward to whats next. Can't climb your rain barrel, [or: Ain't got no rain barrel]
Look down my rain barrel
you want open syllables, few fricative sounds (and no dorsal fricatives), no consonant clusters etc. Shirley - We haven't had any rain in our area; only a few drops. Forever more more more. Cellars for the most part were for the purpose of storing root vegetables and apples, home-canned fruits and vegetables, and were just a small dug-out area under the house or from a hill or mound near the house. Into my cellar door Fantasy authors do seem to have a liking for proper names with a -dor ending. I cannot play with you,
At least that's what I've been told. My sister's got the flu MaryKaye, the song also seems pointless to me without the clapping. (*I was unreliably informed by the friend who taught me the latter version that sycamore trees have very scratchy bark. Playmate, Come Out And Play With Me
It scans so badly it makes me wonder if it has changed tunes. Find TX real estate agents Growing up in Texas we didn't have a cellar door but we did have a rain barrel. It was a rainy day Come out and play with me here's the way it goes. Climb up my apple tree,
Oh, Playmate, Come Out And Play With Me also known as Say, Say, Oh, Playmate is a song that dates back to the early 20th century, probably written sometime between 1904 and 1906 by Charles Leslie Johnson when he published a song titled Lola. MaryKaye: I think rhotic "cellar door" is pretty euphonious. And bring your dollies three, It goes with lyrics: She couldn't come out and play, There are claimshow reliable I can't saythat the statement was made by an Italian, or specifically Mazzini, or by an Italian known to Margaret Fuller (who knew Mazzini): Look down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door. And through the cellar door A rain barrel is a system that collects and stores rainwater from your roof that would otherwise be lost to runoff and diverted to storm drains and streams. Non-lyrical content copyright 1999-2023 SongMeanings, Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. Into my cellar door, Say, Say my playmate
Well, playmate, come out and play with me. and through my dungeon door, Yeah, what Victoria Simmons posted was how I learned it, other than the first line was "Say say oh playmate." I'm sorry, Playmate, I cannot play with you Ha, so Jen in Edinburgh had the same SHUT THAT DOOR as we did in Manchester. We proudly assist clients in every price range throughout the greater San Antonio metropolitan area as well as across the nation. 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). And bring your dollies three
Forever more. AdBlock or similar extension is detected on your device. But come to my rainbow Come out and play with me I am not desirous of having him slide down my cellar door. And well be jolly friends ", J. W. Brewer said: "I would tend to assume the original notion involves sliding down the exterior of a closed (and characteristically sloped) cellar door, not sliding down into the mysterious darkness of the cellar itself?". GN. 111 T.W. 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." After adding bleach, wait about 24 hours before using the water on your plants to Given that LeGuin, along with many other fantasy writers, demonstrates a fascination with the power of language, I doubt the name is purely coincidental. Slide down my sidewalk but we'll be jolly friends forever more. Forever more, Apparently I learned it wrong. A textbook on language that I remember (vaguely, to be sure) from 8th grade said that someone had claimed that "cellar door" and "cuspidor" were among the most beautiful words in English. 
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Thank you for this service. Boo-hoo-oo-oo-oo. 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 And I could The state of Washington has a law against the collection of rainwater by property-owners. The weatherman thinks we may be inthe pathofmore rain soon that is good. Climb down the drain pipe, and to the cellar door. And bring your monsters three Rain barrels are back used to collect water for garden use. But we'll be jolly friends forever more. My dollies have the flu,
In Tom Rapp's glorious lisp, the lyrics to that version are: Well, playmate, come out and play with me ain't got no cellar door,
Alexander Drive, Durham, NC 27709, How to Build a Rain Barrel | PLUM LANDING, How Mother Bear Taught the Children about Lead, Watch a video of three sisters and their parents. Our tank has gone dry but harvesting water is great for watering plants and gardens. My little enemy, Come out and play with me,
Slide down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door, and we'll be jolly friends, forever more. Forever more. What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry? 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 And bring your dollies three. 
3. my dolly's got the flu,
Say, say, oh playmate I cannot play with you, My dolly's got the flu Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. Rain barrels were more thoroughly obsolete. Somewhere along the way the friend-one and the enemy-one seem to have got a bit jumbled. William Waldorf Astor seems to have carried into maturity the youthful feelings so beautifully expressed in ballads of the " you can't slide down my cellar door " school. Digest cite Terhune, who was born after Mazzini's death and would have picked it up god-knows-where. It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, With tearful eyes and tender sighs I could hear her say: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you My dollies have the flu, Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. WebLook down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. forever more. GeorgeW said: "Out of curiosity, what is so alluring about sliding down a cellar door? The .gov means its official.Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. The songs you've voted to be the very best. Climb up my apple tree. I cannot play with you
Can't slide your cellar door [or: Ain't got no cellar door]
There's no way to know for sure, but the dates correspond, and in fact those lines had an interesting life of their own. Search "cellar door bulkhead" in Google Images for visuals. It was a sunny day, she couldn't come out to play
I heard the song from my mother as a kid. Hey, hey, oh playmate, Slide down my rain barrel,
What does that mean?". So sorry playmate, I cannot play with you, my dolly's got the flu, boo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo Ain't got no rainbow, Ain't got no cellar door, Here's a slightly earlier (than the above, Jan. 1921) claim for an Italian: She sang it as a child growing up in the Great Depression of the 1930's. Categories . Make your clothes tear, an' you'll get a lot'a splinters My dollies have the flu Climb up my apple tree. Could the songs have been the immediate inspiration for the claim that cellar door is the most beautiful phrase in the English language? http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2009/11/euphony-of-cellar-door.html. ASCAP backs this up it's got "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" listed for Petrie, but not anything like "Playmates". and bring your warriors three, It seems deeply pointless without the clapping. "Playmates" was a big hit for Philip Wingate and Henry W. Petrie in in 1894, in an age swilling in lachrymose sentimentality about childhood. Actually, theidea from "back in the day"of rain barrels would be awonderful green idea for today. And we'll be jolly friends Come out and play with me
We'd slide an' slide, till our pants got tore Look down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door. Many of the old treasures have parodistic versions, and "Playmates" didn't escape. WebClimb up my apple tree. But we'll be jolly friends
I'm surprised that in origins it was apparently not a clapping game song? The claim in question is that Mazzini was the source of the observation. This is just a preview! We would have just assumed that a cellar door was the same as the door to the basement. 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. into my cellar door
Say, say, archenemy, I'm sorry playmate I cannot play with you. They sing it ev'ry where 
Ain't got no cellar door,
Shut that door! Its super easy, we promise! 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 I really think this meme originated in a non-rhotic region: "celador" is somewhat pleasing to my ear, but my (NW US rhotic) pronunciation of "cellar door" doesn't seem pretty to me at all. I got no rain barrel, I got no cellar door Into my dungeon door, Come out and play with me. Climb up my apple tree. look down the barrel phrase. When I heard the cliche about this phrase being considered as sounding exceptionally beautiful, I assumed it had something to do with French "d' or". 
I'm sorry playmate I cannot play with you. 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)." 
Wikipedia shows lots of mentions of Cellar door, including Tolkien, might be funny/interesting to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_door, A version of "Playmates" is on "The Little Giant," the first album the bebop tenor sax player Johnny Griffin recorded as leader. 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. How we'd slide down some ole cellar door So sorry playmate,
@Dan T.: Well, in fact, in Tolkien's world (n)dor was the Sindarin element meaning "land". It would be 50+ years after the death of Fuller in 1850. And Greece has said to Roumania, "You can't slide down my cellar-door any more.". Is my back-yard left irredeemably desolate? I don't know that I ever saw occasion to sing it without doing the clapping. Ain't got no rain barrel, And we'll be enemies I've never heard any version of this song before, and am mystified as to why "cellar door" should be considered beautiful. Kay Kyser ain't got no rain barrel,
into my jail door WebSee see my playmate Come out and play with me And bring your dollys three Climb up my apple tree Hollow down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends Forever more See see my playmate Come out and dance with me Come on and strike a pose Upon your twinkle nose Lets see your moves, Yeah!!!! Climb up my hippie tree Come out and fight with me, Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. boo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo
Our alternative version was, Say say oh enemy here's the way it goes. Climb up my [vampire?] 
As a child, I thought of the cellar door as the entryway to the dankness, slithering insects, and unnameable horrors lurking in the basement. Playmates words were likely stolen from I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard, 1894. And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. With tearful eyes and tender sighs
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." The mumps and measles too Come out and play with me. On the topic of ugly words for pretty things: pellucid. Nobody lives there except the occasional dragon, and it is mentioned in the traditional opening of Earthsea fairy-tales: "As long ago as forever, and as far away as Selidor". There's a basement-level space on Craigie Street in Cambridge, MA, that has been home to a series of restaurants; one of them was called "Celador", which was explicitly a play on "cellar door". I could hear her say: CHORUS 2: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you. I'm intrigued to find out that it has words that make sense! I cannot play with you Please include name and address. Well, and also, in my version of the song, and therefore the way I was imagining the other versions, the doors are open, so you couldn't slide down them anyway. Tolkien actually uses the word Dumbledores in his light-hearted poem "Errantry", in the line "He battled with the Dumbledores, the Hummerhorns and Honeybees". Definitions by the largest Idiom and San Antonio real estate O boy, what joy, we had in barefoot days, http://www.rienzihills.com/SING/B/barefootdays.htm, Here too: http://londonbobby.com/lblyric.htm#bare, Cee cee oh play me Lima (Ohio), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_door, http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-7/thismonth/feature.php, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py1F22liT1M, https://www.pdinfo.com/PD-Song-List/PD-Song-List-Best-I.php, http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1002C&L=ADS-L&P=R3824&I=-3&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches, http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101078190236;view=1up;seq=46, http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2009/11/euphony-of-cellar-door.html, "Spoken language experts exuberant life of science", Everything You Know About English Is Wrong, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/spoken-language-expert-s-exuberant-life-of-science-20220916-p5birk.html. My neighbor's is so thoroughly frozen now that I doubt if you could shout down it maybe next summer. climb up my apple tree. My dolly's got the flu
and we'll be jolly friends,
Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door So far as I am concerned he can stay in his own back-yard, his own puddle or whatever his habitat may be. Help us send the best of Considerable to you. 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. 
See see my playmate, the throes of dementia. It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, WebClimb up my apple tree. I looked up the lyrics for you, Shirley, because I remember that song, too. And so much the better if the foreigner's language is one we deem mellifluous, so as to add to his or her authority. Portable, lightweight rain barrel collects up to 51 gallons of water you can access by spigot or disperse for irrigation.". It may be that the song quoted above led to the sound claims, though the case would be stronger were anyone to present the song lyric and the claim in the same text earlier than this blog post, which, in relation to the song and the claim could be called 50+ years later. They will throw up on you Oh, and by the way, rain barrels are illegal in Bend, OR, also. WebOh Playmate, come out and play with me And bring your dollies three. Ain't got no rain barrel
dazeystarr: Le Guin admires Tolkiensee "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie"and she's apparently written an essay on the rhythm of Tolkien's prose. 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. Lima (Ohio)News 1968. My mother taught me the song in the sixties with the rain barrel and the cellar door; her own mother was of the right vintage to have learned it when it was a popular parlor song. Aint got no rain barrelAint got no cellar doorBut well be jolly friendsForever more, more, more. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7388639-1496237195-4002.jpeg.jpg)
And slide down my tombstone Slide down my rainbow If you have a problem other readers might help solve or an idea you'd like to share, write to Melba's Swap Shop, Box 25125, Oklahoma City, OK 73125. More, more, more. Munseysmagazine, 1901, And Greece has said to Roumania, "You can't slide down my cellar-door any more." All lyrics are property of their respective owners & are provided for informational & educational purposes only. And we'll be jolly friends forevermore. Then again, I've never heard this song, as a child or ever, so I obviously have no nostalgia factor. and bring your DOLLIES three
There's a catchy little tune a floatin' through the air,
I've long taken "Selidor" as an homage to him. It was a sunny day, she couldn't come out and play, with tearful eyes I heard her say,. , 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. But what's the diff'rence where it came from,
Lit. Say, Say My Playmate may be done as a clapping game. Oh PLAYMATE, come out and play with me
And I could hear her say Both are reported nth-hand a a distance of half a century or more from the event, with no intervening record for it. 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. Now I'm curious about geographical distribution and children's folklore. And bring your LSD But we'll be jolly friends forever more. And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. FWIW: 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. When I was at primary school (Devon, late 90s) it was: See see, my playmate At primary school ( Devon, late 90s ) it was a rainy day, She could come. About geographical distribution and children 's folklore be enabled for the claim in question is that Mazzini the... 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And I could hear her say, "I'm sorry playmate" etc. But we'll be jolly friends forever more, Willie Nelson Lyrics provided by SongLyrics.com. WebClimb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. How it started, where it started seems nobody knows Others sharing included Len Simonds of Oklahoma City who sent a tape of "Playmates" recorded by the Kay Kyser orchestra. Oh little playmate You would not play with me Sound combination? The version I learned in Tustin, California in about 1970 went: Say, say oh playmate, I cannot play with you,
I'd love to know how that happened. My dolly's got the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo And we'll be jolly friends forever more. 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. The song figures a couple of times in the 1981 Warren Beatty movie Reds, most unforgettably as sung by Peggy Lee. My dollie has the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
In 1970's Manchester (England) it was a clapping song, only different by: It's funny, although what I have always envisioned when singing this song was those angled cellar doors, when I originally read this post, I had absolutely no idea what it meant to slide down a cellar door. And we'll be jolly friends, My dollies have the flu, Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. Say, Say my playmate
(By way of contrast with "beautiful" words for unbeautiful things, there was a suggestion that the German Schmetterling "butterfly" was an ugly word for a beautiful thing. An annotation cannot contain another annotation. BRIDGE: It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, With tearful eyes and tender sighs. Look down my rain-barrel Ain't got no rain barrel Ain't got no cellar door, But we'll be jolly friends Forever more more more more more. I'm reminded of Dennis Potter's statement in The Singing Detective that the single most beautiful world in the English language is elbow. Charles L. Johnson sued and there was an out of court settlement. I don't remember exactly where I learned these, but I sang them in the early 90s: Say, say, oh playmate, 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. And bring your dollies three, Traditional Children's Song Lyrics and Sound Clip, Hey, hey, oh playmate,
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means. is that Tolkien originally spelled all those Elvish names with K, and changed them to C shortly before publication because he wanted them to look more "Latin". These real estate profiles, blogs and blog entries are provided here as a courtesy to our visitors to help them Oh PLAYMATE, come out and play with me And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. With tearful eyes and tender sighs Some think the words to the old song, "Little Playmate," are "Come holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door, and we'll be jolly friends forevermore." Climb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. We had a long dry spell but then got a good shower almost every day for about two weeksand that has now stopped. Its like being told that an international panel of musicologists had definitively determined that the most beautiful song ever written was My Sharona.. climb up my apple tree. And I will lock you in I think '70's kids, at least who grow up in the northeast (might have been different in Florida or other parts of the country where cellars/basements were themselves rare due to water-table issues or whatever), were familiar with that older style of cellar door not just from old movies from some real-life examples unless they lived and moved entirely in neighborhoods where all the housing stock was recently constructed. boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo,
I've never actually seen one in person and it didn't occur to me that one could be used as a slide. Ain't got no cellar door A Songs for Teaching
Frankly, I find nothing unusually appealing out it (70ish, SoAmE). I must admit complete ignorance of this. Harry Golden, a columnist of the '60s, wrote that "cellar door" was the most mellifluous phrase in the English language. 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. BusSongs.com has the largest collection of, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Nobody Likes Me (Guess I'll Go Eat Worms). Is the perception of beauty in "cellar door" related to the perceiver's rhoticity? Anne Rachel-Dowell. We'd go down to the shady brook Well, playmate, I cant come play with you. https://www.pdinfo.com/PD-Song-List/PD-Song-List-Best-I.php Forever more, "Dungeon door" doesn't have the mellifluousness of "cellar door", but maybe that's the childhood nostalgia talking. 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. It is a hard thing to be a czar. In various forms, slide down my cellar door became a kind of catchphrase to suggest innocent friendship. There was then a response: So sorry playmate The slant of the cellar door or doors was so that during heavy rain, the rain would run off of them and minimize dampness to the cellar's contents. 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"). forever more more more! Designed for the new generation of older adults who are redefining what it means to age and are looking forward to whats next. Can't climb your rain barrel, [or: Ain't got no rain barrel]
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you want open syllables, few fricative sounds (and no dorsal fricatives), no consonant clusters etc. Shirley - We haven't had any rain in our area; only a few drops. Forever more more more. Cellars for the most part were for the purpose of storing root vegetables and apples, home-canned fruits and vegetables, and were just a small dug-out area under the house or from a hill or mound near the house. Into my cellar door Fantasy authors do seem to have a liking for proper names with a -dor ending. I cannot play with you,
At least that's what I've been told. My sister's got the flu MaryKaye, the song also seems pointless to me without the clapping. (*I was unreliably informed by the friend who taught me the latter version that sycamore trees have very scratchy bark. Playmate, Come Out And Play With Me
It scans so badly it makes me wonder if it has changed tunes. Find TX real estate agents Growing up in Texas we didn't have a cellar door but we did have a rain barrel. It was a rainy day Come out and play with me here's the way it goes. Climb up my apple tree,
Oh, Playmate, Come Out And Play With Me also known as Say, Say, Oh, Playmate is a song that dates back to the early 20th century, probably written sometime between 1904 and 1906 by Charles Leslie Johnson when he published a song titled Lola. MaryKaye: I think rhotic "cellar door" is pretty euphonious. And bring your dollies three, It goes with lyrics: She couldn't come out and play, There are claimshow reliable I can't saythat the statement was made by an Italian, or specifically Mazzini, or by an Italian known to Margaret Fuller (who knew Mazzini): Look down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door. And through the cellar door A rain barrel is a system that collects and stores rainwater from your roof that would otherwise be lost to runoff and diverted to storm drains and streams. Non-lyrical content copyright 1999-2023 SongMeanings, Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. Into my cellar door, Say, Say my playmate
Well, playmate, come out and play with me. and through my dungeon door, Yeah, what Victoria Simmons posted was how I learned it, other than the first line was "Say say oh playmate." I'm sorry, Playmate, I cannot play with you Ha, so Jen in Edinburgh had the same SHUT THAT DOOR as we did in Manchester. We proudly assist clients in every price range throughout the greater San Antonio metropolitan area as well as across the nation. 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). And bring your dollies three
Forever more. AdBlock or similar extension is detected on your device. But come to my rainbow Come out and play with me I am not desirous of having him slide down my cellar door. And well be jolly friends ", J. W. Brewer said: "I would tend to assume the original notion involves sliding down the exterior of a closed (and characteristically sloped) cellar door, not sliding down into the mysterious darkness of the cellar itself?". GN. 111 T.W. 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." After adding bleach, wait about 24 hours before using the water on your plants to Given that LeGuin, along with many other fantasy writers, demonstrates a fascination with the power of language, I doubt the name is purely coincidental. Slide down my sidewalk but we'll be jolly friends forever more. Forever more, Apparently I learned it wrong. A textbook on language that I remember (vaguely, to be sure) from 8th grade said that someone had claimed that "cellar door" and "cuspidor" were among the most beautiful words in English. Ain't got no rainbow,
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Thank you for this service. Boo-hoo-oo-oo-oo. 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 And I could The state of Washington has a law against the collection of rainwater by property-owners. The weatherman thinks we may be inthe pathofmore rain soon that is good. Climb down the drain pipe, and to the cellar door. And bring your monsters three Rain barrels are back used to collect water for garden use. But we'll be jolly friends forever more. My dollies have the flu,
In Tom Rapp's glorious lisp, the lyrics to that version are: Well, playmate, come out and play with me ain't got no cellar door,
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Slide down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door, and we'll be jolly friends, forever more. Forever more. What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry? 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 And bring your dollies three. 3. my dolly's got the flu,
Say, say, oh playmate I cannot play with you, My dolly's got the flu Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. Rain barrels were more thoroughly obsolete. Somewhere along the way the friend-one and the enemy-one seem to have got a bit jumbled. William Waldorf Astor seems to have carried into maturity the youthful feelings so beautifully expressed in ballads of the " you can't slide down my cellar door " school. Digest cite Terhune, who was born after Mazzini's death and would have picked it up god-knows-where. It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, With tearful eyes and tender sighs I could hear her say: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you My dollies have the flu, Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. WebLook down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. forever more. GeorgeW said: "Out of curiosity, what is so alluring about sliding down a cellar door? The .gov means its official.Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. The songs you've voted to be the very best. Climb up my apple tree. I cannot play with you
Can't slide your cellar door [or: Ain't got no cellar door]
There's no way to know for sure, but the dates correspond, and in fact those lines had an interesting life of their own. Search "cellar door bulkhead" in Google Images for visuals. It was a sunny day, she couldn't come out to play
I heard the song from my mother as a kid. Hey, hey, oh playmate, Slide down my rain barrel,
What does that mean?". So sorry playmate, I cannot play with you, my dolly's got the flu, boo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo Ain't got no rainbow, Ain't got no cellar door, Here's a slightly earlier (than the above, Jan. 1921) claim for an Italian: She sang it as a child growing up in the Great Depression of the 1930's. Categories . Make your clothes tear, an' you'll get a lot'a splinters My dollies have the flu Climb up my apple tree. Could the songs have been the immediate inspiration for the claim that cellar door is the most beautiful phrase in the English language? http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2009/11/euphony-of-cellar-door.html. ASCAP backs this up it's got "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" listed for Petrie, but not anything like "Playmates". and bring your warriors three, It seems deeply pointless without the clapping. "Playmates" was a big hit for Philip Wingate and Henry W. Petrie in in 1894, in an age swilling in lachrymose sentimentality about childhood. Actually, theidea from "back in the day"of rain barrels would be awonderful green idea for today. And we'll be jolly friends Come out and play with me
We'd slide an' slide, till our pants got tore Look down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door. Many of the old treasures have parodistic versions, and "Playmates" didn't escape. WebClimb up my apple tree. But we'll be jolly friends
I'm surprised that in origins it was apparently not a clapping game song? The claim in question is that Mazzini was the source of the observation. This is just a preview! We would have just assumed that a cellar door was the same as the door to the basement. 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. into my cellar door
Say, say, archenemy, I'm sorry playmate I cannot play with you. They sing it ev'ry where Ain't got no cellar door,
Shut that door! Its super easy, we promise! 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 I really think this meme originated in a non-rhotic region: "celador" is somewhat pleasing to my ear, but my (NW US rhotic) pronunciation of "cellar door" doesn't seem pretty to me at all. I got no rain barrel, I got no cellar door Into my dungeon door, Come out and play with me. Climb up my apple tree. look down the barrel phrase. When I heard the cliche about this phrase being considered as sounding exceptionally beautiful, I assumed it had something to do with French "d' or". Wikipedia shows lots of mentions of Cellar door, including Tolkien, might be funny/interesting to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_door, A version of "Playmates" is on "The Little Giant," the first album the bebop tenor sax player Johnny Griffin recorded as leader. 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. How we'd slide down some ole cellar door So sorry playmate,
@Dan T.: Well, in fact, in Tolkien's world (n)dor was the Sindarin element meaning "land". It would be 50+ years after the death of Fuller in 1850. And Greece has said to Roumania, "You can't slide down my cellar-door any more.". Is my back-yard left irredeemably desolate? I don't know that I ever saw occasion to sing it without doing the clapping. Ain't got no rain barrel, And we'll be enemies I've never heard any version of this song before, and am mystified as to why "cellar door" should be considered beautiful. Kay Kyser ain't got no rain barrel,
into my jail door WebSee see my playmate Come out and play with me And bring your dollys three Climb up my apple tree Hollow down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends Forever more See see my playmate Come out and dance with me Come on and strike a pose Upon your twinkle nose Lets see your moves, Yeah!!!! Climb up my hippie tree Come out and fight with me, Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. boo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo
Our alternative version was, Say say oh enemy here's the way it goes. Climb up my [vampire?] As a child, I thought of the cellar door as the entryway to the dankness, slithering insects, and unnameable horrors lurking in the basement. Playmates words were likely stolen from I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard, 1894. And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. With tearful eyes and tender sighs
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." The mumps and measles too Come out and play with me. On the topic of ugly words for pretty things: pellucid. Nobody lives there except the occasional dragon, and it is mentioned in the traditional opening of Earthsea fairy-tales: "As long ago as forever, and as far away as Selidor". There's a basement-level space on Craigie Street in Cambridge, MA, that has been home to a series of restaurants; one of them was called "Celador", which was explicitly a play on "cellar door". I could hear her say: CHORUS 2: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you. I'm intrigued to find out that it has words that make sense! I cannot play with you Please include name and address. Well, and also, in my version of the song, and therefore the way I was imagining the other versions, the doors are open, so you couldn't slide down them anyway. Tolkien actually uses the word Dumbledores in his light-hearted poem "Errantry", in the line "He battled with the Dumbledores, the Hummerhorns and Honeybees". Definitions by the largest Idiom and San Antonio real estate O boy, what joy, we had in barefoot days, http://www.rienzihills.com/SING/B/barefootdays.htm, Here too: http://londonbobby.com/lblyric.htm#bare, Cee cee oh play me Lima (Ohio), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_door, http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-7/thismonth/feature.php, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py1F22liT1M, https://www.pdinfo.com/PD-Song-List/PD-Song-List-Best-I.php, http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1002C&L=ADS-L&P=R3824&I=-3&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches, http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101078190236;view=1up;seq=46, http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2009/11/euphony-of-cellar-door.html, "Spoken language experts exuberant life of science", Everything You Know About English Is Wrong, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/spoken-language-expert-s-exuberant-life-of-science-20220916-p5birk.html. My neighbor's is so thoroughly frozen now that I doubt if you could shout down it maybe next summer. climb up my apple tree. My dolly's got the flu
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Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door So far as I am concerned he can stay in his own back-yard, his own puddle or whatever his habitat may be. Help us send the best of Considerable to you. 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. See see my playmate, the throes of dementia. It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, WebClimb up my apple tree. I looked up the lyrics for you, Shirley, because I remember that song, too. And so much the better if the foreigner's language is one we deem mellifluous, so as to add to his or her authority. Portable, lightweight rain barrel collects up to 51 gallons of water you can access by spigot or disperse for irrigation.". It may be that the song quoted above led to the sound claims, though the case would be stronger were anyone to present the song lyric and the claim in the same text earlier than this blog post, which, in relation to the song and the claim could be called 50+ years later. They will throw up on you Oh, and by the way, rain barrels are illegal in Bend, OR, also. WebOh Playmate, come out and play with me And bring your dollies three. Ain't got no rain barrel
dazeystarr: Le Guin admires Tolkiensee "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie"and she's apparently written an essay on the rhythm of Tolkien's prose. 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. Lima (Ohio)News 1968. My mother taught me the song in the sixties with the rain barrel and the cellar door; her own mother was of the right vintage to have learned it when it was a popular parlor song. Aint got no rain barrelAint got no cellar doorBut well be jolly friendsForever more, more, more. And slide down my tombstone Slide down my rainbow If you have a problem other readers might help solve or an idea you'd like to share, write to Melba's Swap Shop, Box 25125, Oklahoma City, OK 73125. More, more, more. Munseysmagazine, 1901, And Greece has said to Roumania, "You can't slide down my cellar-door any more." All lyrics are property of their respective owners & are provided for informational & educational purposes only. And we'll be jolly friends forevermore. Then again, I've never heard this song, as a child or ever, so I obviously have no nostalgia factor. and bring your DOLLIES three
There's a catchy little tune a floatin' through the air,
I've long taken "Selidor" as an homage to him. It was a sunny day, she couldn't come out and play, with tearful eyes I heard her say,. , 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. But what's the diff'rence where it came from,
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And I could hear her say Both are reported nth-hand a a distance of half a century or more from the event, with no intervening record for it. 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. Now I'm curious about geographical distribution and children's folklore. And bring your LSD But we'll be jolly friends forever more. And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. FWIW: 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. When I was at primary school (Devon, late 90s) it was: See see, my playmate At primary school ( Devon, late 90s ) it was a rainy day, She could come. About geographical distribution and children 's folklore be enabled for the claim in question is that Mazzini the... 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