What's That About Cocoa Puffs?
I watched a group of DQ's friends on the playground the other day.They were doing one of those group hand-slappy things that, for lack of better way of explaining, is like a bigger girl patty-cake.
The song went like this.....
Down down baby, down down the roller coaster
Sweet sweet baby, sweet sweet don't let me go
Shimmy shimmy coco pop
Shimmy shimmy rock
Shimmy shimmy coco pop
Shimmy shimmy rock.
I ate a biscuit, a biscuit!
It was sweet, a biscuit!
Apples on the table, peaches on the floor
Baby I don't love you any more.
To the front, to the back, to the side side side
To the front, to the back, to the side side side
Ladies and gentlemen listen to this
This little girl's gonna boogie for you
She's gonna turn around, touch the ground
Boogie oogie oogie til her pants fall down, FREEZE!
WHO comes up with these lines?
I swore they were talking about cereal in the beginning, then biscuits, and fruit?
Why are her pants eventually falling down, does she need a belt?
I remember the just-as-random jump-ropes songs when I was little.
2-4-6-8, who do we appreciate?
The boys, the boys
Push them in the hot stuff
Sock 'em in the jaw
Flush 'em down the toilet, RAH RAH RAH!
Now that makes so much more sense right?!
What exactly is the HOT STUFF?
Anyone care to help me out here? ;)
September 9, 2008 at 3:14 AM
Yeah there's is nonsense and yours totally makes sense.
Must be a generation issue eh?
September 9, 2008 at 4:23 AM
At this age I think 'hot stuff' is lava. As they turn into teens 'hot stuff' means Tommy Hilfiger or something similar.
September 9, 2008 at 4:26 AM
we had some pretty wierd rhymes as a kid. Something about Miss Lucy had a baby and named it tiny tim. and a woman with an alligator purse.
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September 9, 2008 at 4:41 AM
Oh Lord...I don't think we want to know. My oldest is only seven and it worries me the stuff they learn and how fast they grow up(or think they do) for lack thereof!
September 9, 2008 at 4:41 AM
I can't.
I am pretty sure DQ's version, along with Mary Mack were my playground mainstays:)
September 9, 2008 at 5:16 AM
LOL... I can't even remember what we use to do... oh wait, "Rocking Robin". But I'm old so no one probably even remembers that.
September 9, 2008 at 5:51 AM
I think if you play it backwards on a record player it says "john is dead"...or "yoko is the 5th Beatle" or something like that...
September 9, 2008 at 5:54 AM
LOL cracking up.. no idea what the first one was about.. but not so sure I liked the ending.. and completely clueless about the hotstuff.. :-P
September 9, 2008 at 6:08 AM
Too funny! And the hot stuff...I am still cracking up!
September 9, 2008 at 6:14 AM
Ay ay ay -- yeah, that's definitely a new addition to that chant!!!
September 9, 2008 at 6:20 AM
I totally remember the shimmy shimmy cocoa pop song! Haven't you ever seen "Big"?
I think its hilarious and cool that these songs are still around. How about this one we used to do to a hand clapping thingy:
Say, say, oh playmate,
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree
Shout down my rain barrel
Slide down my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends
Forever more more more more more
Say, say, oh playmate
I cannot play with you
My dolly's got the flu
Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Ain't got no rain barrel
Ain't got no cellar door
But we'll be jolly friends
Forever more more more more more
That one's prety tame - I also remember some risque ones!
September 9, 2008 at 6:25 AM
OMG!!! Amy and I STILL do that Shimmy shimmy cocoa pop thing when we are together. I know you are in tears thinking your baby will be like us!!!!!
September 9, 2008 at 6:30 AM
Oh, that's nothing!
My 2nd grader came home singing the "Down down baby" part, so I thought I'd look it up online to find the right words, and maybe a version on iTunes.
I found some very, umm, inappropriate versions online!! Thankfully, her teacher sent home to words. And they're not like DQ's version, either!
September 9, 2008 at 6:39 AM
I remember one we use to do. It was about Miss Mary Mac. She was all dressed in black and for some reason she jumped so high that she didn't come back till the 4th of July!
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September 9, 2008 at 6:44 AM
Kind of off topic but thank you for putting the bangles on your playlist! It's cloudy, I'm tired, I feel a cold coming on, but Manic Monday is really lifting my spirits right now!
September 9, 2008 at 6:48 AM
Umm, hot stuff is the stuff that comes out of a oven....I think!
LOL
This is hilarious, I don't know who makes these lines up, but it does seem to be a normal childhood ritual.
I wouldn't worry too much, just sit back and chuckle for what it's worth.
I'm chuckling....
September 9, 2008 at 7:04 AM
HAHA I remember those songs and they made no sense back then. I guess things don't change. LOL
September 9, 2008 at 7:05 AM
This is just too funny because I was trying to remember the words to it (Down by the roller coaster) the other day! Although, it seems your girls have some different verses.... I still don't recall the exact words but I do know we had no biscuits or fruit, and I do recall the last verse was:
"Forgot to feed the baby,
Lazy, Lazy.
Jumped out the window,
Crazy, Crazy.
Eenie meanie bops-a-meanie,
I love you, Tutti Fruiti."
We may have been potential bad parents and jumping out of windows, but we at least kept our clothes on! ;)
I have never heard of pushing boys into hot stuff.... but I do like the idea of socking them in the jaw! :) LOL
Thanx for helping to bring back some great childhood memories! :)
September 9, 2008 at 7:19 AM
How about all those songs where we almost swore, but didn't? The Miss Suzy song? We didn't say ass, we said ASK! We were so clever.
September 9, 2008 at 7:32 AM
Ok that cracked me up!! Where DOES this stuff come from? I actually have heard the first part of the "big girl patty cake" but the rest?? Uhhh...hmmm!?!?! When I saw the "pants fall down" I thought, "Oh, ok..." LOL!!!!
Too funny about the old one - yes, what IS the hot stuff!?!?! ;)
September 9, 2008 at 7:43 AM
In my humble opinion, the "hot stuff" is analogous to the "junk in their trunk", the "boyz down below", or the "family jewels." Just my two cents :-)
I do remember these rhymes - but not the part about the girls pants falling down. Amazing what concepts kids come up with these days!
September 9, 2008 at 7:54 AM
LOL...I actually remember the down down baby...yep Im a youngin'! I do know the 2...4...6...8...but hot stuff??? You got me!
September 9, 2008 at 8:06 AM
boogie oogie oogie till her pants fall down... I thought they were referring to me th eother night- that's why I wore a jumpsuit!
September 9, 2008 at 8:12 AM
Sassy likes to make up songs- half Hannah Montana lyrics, half her own- but they usually make no sense! She would like your taste in music!
September 9, 2008 at 8:18 AM
Ok, can't answer about all of it, especially not the last part, but the coco puff part I remember from the movie "Big" with Tom Hanks. He and his friend do it--and it is what helps his friend realize he is his friend when he gets big. Love that movie!
September 9, 2008 at 8:22 AM
Bwahaha -flush 'em down the toilet...I still say that about my husband.
September 9, 2008 at 8:33 AM
I'm right there with you - in LOSTville. Doesn't make a smidgen of sense to me but it sounds cute it that sing songy voice doesn't it?
September 9, 2008 at 8:48 AM
really... where do they come up with these things... maybe it's like when you think you know the words to the song but you are way off... like a game of telephone gone wrong :)
September 9, 2008 at 9:28 AM
Here's hoping their idea of "hot stuff" is more along the lines of overheated food! ;) (and actually, I bet it is...)
My kids (now 7) enjoy "Boys rule; Girls drool" (and the reverse sentiment.)
Delightful!
September 9, 2008 at 9:40 AM
I have heard the cocoa pop one. Do you remember the Mc Donald's one? We had some other one too that weren't very nice! ha ha
September 9, 2008 at 9:52 AM
LOL I remember miss lucy had a steamboat the steamboat had a bell yadda yadda yadda...lilest bean has new words to our old classics...loved this post brought back many memories
September 9, 2008 at 9:57 AM
I'm shocked about the pants fall down.....Don't know what else to say.
If anyone remembers "Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac, all dressed in black, black, black"???? my daughter was told that was racist and was not permitted at school. Per school staff. Oh well.
September 9, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Maybe it was "punch them in the hotstuff"?
I remember the coco puffs one, Miss Mary Mack...I know there were more.
September 9, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Maybe it was "punch them in the hotstuff"?
I remember the coco puffs one, Miss Mary Mack...I know there were more.
September 9, 2008 at 10:29 AM
This cracked me up! Not only does my nine year old do these hand clapping/handshake things, but she does a different one with EACH friend. Yet, she can't remember to put her dirty socks in the laundry chute. Go figure.
September 9, 2008 at 10:54 AM
I kinda like the shimmy shimmy cocoa puff one better than some I have heard.
September 9, 2008 at 11:41 AM
My girls are really in to this whole hand clapping thing. I don't remember a whole of of them from when I was in school.
September 9, 2008 at 1:05 PM
My almost 9 year old is always singing some new "jump rope" or "hand clapping" song.
September 9, 2008 at 1:32 PM
LOL...LMNOB has yet to fully coordinate with these, but I SOOOOOOOOOOO remember them.
I'm with Elizabeth on the 2 4 6 8 thing referring to the boys' junk...b/c the version I remember was: "2,4,6,8, who do we really hate? The boys...." it's all about being mean to boys ;) Remember that one is popular about the time that boys are tormenting girls on the playground - so cut 'em some slack.
The funniest thing I ever read about playground rhymes was over at Woulda Coulda Shoulda - she cast new light on the Cinderella jump rope verse for me. Oh the horror!
September 9, 2008 at 5:14 PM
My 6 year old came home with soooooooooooo many of those this summer after spending time with "older" girls at camp! I think hers was like: "ABCD, that's the way uh-huh, uh-huh I like it, you got your way, I got my way, peace, puf, captain crunch (so what is it with the breakfast cereals). . .whoops, I can't remember the rest. .. then someting with "poof with the attitude". ..I definitely know we had our sayings, but I don't think we said "poof with the attitude"! :-) but, its cute all the same. ..
September 9, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Hah what a strange song they sing...the things kids that age come up with!
Jarod tells me the weirdest things that he thinks are hysterical...I am just sitting there rolling my eyes in wonder and amazement. lol
September 9, 2008 at 6:28 PM
I know similar songs...
2,4,6,8
Who do we really hate?
The boys! They boys!
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Flush them down the toilet
Ha Ha Ha!
September 9, 2008 at 11:54 PM
OMG reading this post & reading the comments was like a trip down memory lane! I completely forgot about these! Ahh we had so many! lol
Definitely never heard of the one's you mentioned, though, lol! Especially about kicking them in the hot stuff!! ahahhaha that cracks me up!!!!
September 10, 2008 at 10:01 AM
that is so funny! i never understood the words to all the things that i used to chant when i was a kid. now that they have been modified to 'keep up with the times', forget it! i feel old!
September 11, 2008 at 1:18 AM
I've only heard the Down Down Baby song done by Laurie Berkner - and my girls love it... and will sing it non stop.
The others? What fun memories!
September 11, 2008 at 6:55 AM
ROFLMAO how about this old favorite
Miss mary mack mack mack all dressed in black black black....
September 13, 2008 at 9:55 PM
I am very disappointed that today's youth have bastardized these songs! And even more disappointed that you did not march right over there and correct them on it!!! The first part was from "Big," the last paragraph I learned at cheerleading camp when I was 10....
Hi my name is Jen and I'm doing fine
I'm guaranteed to BLOW you mind!
I can turn around, touch the ground
Get back up and boogie on down!
Each cheerleader would take a turn. Now go teach them thar girls right!