Hi again @kindred
Yes I remember 'The Big Ship Sailed' although unlike @SandraKD 's version, we sang 'On the Last Day of September'.
The next verse was: 'The Captain said: It will never never do'
The last one was; 'The Big Ship sank to the Bottom of the Sea'
We didn't skip to that one, we did a thing with a line of us who all paraded under an arch made by the first two in the line. Our playground games were so simple and unsophisticated ....
With line skipping, do you remember:
'I like coffee, I like tea, I like Geraldine in with me'? And did you do 'Double Dutch' skipping with 2 ropes or the other playground favourite 'French skipping' with a lump of elastic stretched around two peoples' feet?
The weirdest playground game of mine dates from my first year at school in the early 60's. We had a tennis ball knotted into the foot of a stocking, and stood with our backs against a wall and did certain maneouvres with said ball, bashing it from side to side, through our legs etc against the wall, whilst saying:
'Got a cigarette sir?
No sir? Why sir?
Cos I got a cold, sir
Where d'you get the cold, sir?
At the North Pole, Sir
What you doing there, Sir?
Catching Polar Bears, Sir
How many did you catch, Sir? Then at that point you bashed the ball frantically from side to side while counting!?!
Gosh that seems such a long while ago .............. but then it is!! Feel like a burst of 'Those were the days my friend'.
Memories of childhood games in the playground....
Hand claps with a partner singing a rhyme
and for the life of me can’t remember the rhyme ☺️
Dau friends child did one with me a few years ago... something like down down the lady goes.... and my mother told me if I kissed a soldier ... again can’t remember rest of words