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My niece Hanniah is getting into singing nursery rhymes accompanied by hand-clapping. My sisters and I loved hand-clapping games when we were in grade school. I asked her if she knew CeCe My Playmate. She did not so I started teaching her these lyrics (The hand motions are not easy to teach a 4 year old, but so much fun!):
Ce Ce my playmate.
Come out and play with me,
and bring dollies three.
Climb up my apple tree.
Slide down my rainbow,
into my cellar door, and
we’ll be jolly friends,
forever more, more, -more, -more.
Well apparently I know a different version because as I was searching for a copy of the lyrics for my sister, I found these lyrics:
Say, say oh playmate,
Come out and play with me,
And bring your dollies three,
Climb up my apple tree.
Slide down my rain barrel,
Into my cellar door,
And we’ll be jolly friends,
Forever more - more - more!
Does anyone recall this song? Did you use either of these lyrics or did you use others?
6 responses so far ↓
1 B Carter // Mar 16, 2008 at 4:56 am
Growing up, we used the first set of lyrics that you were used to. I can see where the change may have come in though as things are passed down small changes are always made. It could be that someone talked with their mouth full of marbles or someone else just thought Ce Ce was easier to sing than say, say.
2 Jillian // Mar 16, 2008 at 6:33 am
You know, I’ve never heard this before. And I can’t for the life of me remember any I sang as a kid. My childhood memories are pretty spotty. LOL, it’s ashame because I know I’m forgetting some pretty good stuff.
3 pam // Mar 16, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Frankly, I think I’m probably too old to remember this…
4 Monique // Mar 16, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Oh I so remember that! We used to do the 2nd version but said something else instead of “… dollies three” which I can’t remember and we said rainbow instead of rain barrel. We’d wrap it up by saying “More more 1-2-3-4″.
5 haleyhughes // Mar 17, 2008 at 5:40 pm
OMG, yes, do I remember this! My sister and I drove my parents crazy with it.
I remember singing a version that has a little bit from both variations, plus some changes:
Ce, Ce my playmate,
Won’t you come out and play,
And bring dollies three,
Climb up my apple tree,
Slide down my rain barrel,
Into my cellar door,
And we’ll be jolly friends,
Forever more - more - shut the door!
Then my parents would usually sing “Find another song” at the end.
6 Daria // Mar 17, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I used to sing this with my sister all the time! We knew the first version you had posted, but instead of ‘ce ce my playmate’ it was ‘Shake Shake my playmate’ with a hand shake game type thing..
It was fun! I miss it!
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