And bring your dollies three GN. Is there some generalization to be made here about a lack of flexibility in children's application of labels? 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. Full lyrics to You Are My Sunshine - first recorded in 1939 by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell. They sing it ev'ry where I remember my Mother singing this song to me over 70 years ago (I know the time period because of remembering the time period that we lived in a certain house).

In a 2010 NYT On Language column, Grant Barrett traced the claim that cellar door is the most beautiful phrase in English back as far as 1905 1903. 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. And we'll be jolly friends And we'll be jolly enemies, What a Beautiful Morning (G.I. I can certainly understand from my own experience, because of lack of toys and playground equipment those many years ago, the line in the song where one playmate calls out to the other playmate the invitation: "(come) slide down my cellar door"! MaryKaye: I think rhotic "cellar door" is pretty euphonious. 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". I had no idea it was such an old song though! But why would one assume that some one of these stories has to be true? She sang it as a child growing up in the Great Depression of the 1930's. The claim in question is that Mazzini was the source of the observation. Now that I think of it, in Northeast Phila., it wasn't only a clapping song, it had the most elaborate clap sequence of any of the songs we knew (except maybe the Oreo song, which I never managed to learn). Apparently I grew up in a vacuum. my dolly's got the flu, So far as I am concerned he can stay in his own back-yard, his own puddle or whatever his habitat may be.
Oh, and by the way, rain barrels are illegal in Bend, OR, also. And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. Slide down my cellar door Sherman and Weisskopf also report a parody version, different from Sharon Goetz's: Say, say, my vampire, It could have been written years before it was copyrighted, of course. And so much the better if the foreigner's language is one we deem mellifluous, so as to add to his or her authority. But well be jolly friends 'I'm sorry Playmate, I can't come out today Its super easy, we promise! Well, playmate, come out and play with me. Dont have an account? But come to my rainbow Out of curiosity, what is so alluring about sliding down a cellar door? The undeniable charm of the story the source of the enchantment that C. S. Lewis reported when he saw, I would not let an operator that did not have a card, carry my lunch basket or slide down my cellar door: not to say give him a "square" or fix him for a ride over the road. WebClimb up my apple tree. I at least was familiar with rain barrels as well as cellar doors that either had the sloping door or steps/a ramp down to a vertical door, and it made complete sense to me that if you wanted to play in an apple tree with dollies, you'd also slide through a rain barrel to the cellar. The Wikipedia article quotes a 1903 novel called Gee-Boy which points out that no association of ideas is involved in the perceived loveliness of "cellar door", since actual cellar doors are solely American. So far as I am concerned he can stay in his own back-yard, his own puddle or whatever his habitat may be. They sing it ev'ry where A 1968 article in the Lima (Ohio) News began: 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. You hear it here and there, Oh little Playmate Can't slide your cellar door [or: Ain't got no cellar door] Climb up my apple tree, I could hear her say: CHORUS 2: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101078190236;view=1up;seq=46 C always has the value k even before e and i: celeb 'silver' should be pronounced as keleb. Shout down my rain barrel Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. March 22, 2023. So Dowell could have written it, which means that the pre-1940 "cellar door" references are all to "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard." 2003-2023 BusSongs.com With tearful eyes and tender sighs Look down my rain barrel, When I was at primary school (Devon, late 90s) it was: See see, my playmate Oak Park (IL). Cry down my rain barrel, Can't climb your rain barrel, (or, Ain't got no rain barrel) @MaryKaye: In Appendix E, Tolkien says explicitly, "The High-Elven Quenya has been spelt as much like Latin as its sounds allowed. make an informed decision when buying or selling a house. 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. http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1002C&L=ADS-L&P=R3824&I=-3&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches We had cellar doors in Jackson Heights, but climbing down the rain barrel, and indeed the rain barrel itself, was a puzzle. but we'll be jolly friends forever more. But I admit it's more euphonious than our 'water tank' and the Brit's 'water butt'! Can my ex-husband bar me from his retirement benefits? Rain barrels are back used to collect water for garden use. But we'll be jolly friends forever more Look down my rain barrel Anne Rachel-Dowell. I guess there's some rule that any rain that falls belongs to the city or something. We would have just assumed that a cellar door was the same as the door to the basement. Slide down my blood spout, 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. In various forms, slide down my cellar door became a kind of catchphrase to suggest innocent friendship. The version he plays includes an eight-bar "bridge" but I don't know if it corresponds to additional lines in the lyric. But we'll be jolly friends, and bring your DOLLIES three And we'll be jolly friends forever more. The act? and we'll be jolly friends It goes with lyrics: She couldn't come out and play, Well, playmate, I cant come play with you. Come out and play with me There's a catchy little tune a floatin' through the air, WebClimb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. Cry down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door. Say, say, oh playmate, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo, A "Celadore" would be the most romantic spelling, if you ask me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py1F22liT1M Venmo, Cash App and PayPal: Can you really trust your payment app? And well be jolly friends Forever more. 1906 m. Charles L. Johnson, w. James O'Dea N The chorus of Iola is the melody to the 1940 hit Playmates by Saxie Dowell. So sorry, playmate I cannot play with you My dollys got For this reason c has been preferred to k in both Eldarin languages. WebPlaymate, come out and play with me And bring your dollies, three Climb up my apple tree Look down my rain-barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever "which can only be from a TV presenter's catchphrase of the day.". And through the cellar door Please disable blocking extensions so Bussongs.com can provide you 100% experience. The sheet music, including the hand motions, can be found here. My sister's got the flu Rural electric had not as yet come to the area and with no electricity available, our water was rope-drawn from a cistern. Martha The song apparently passed into children's folklore, and is cited as such in "Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood" (1995), by Josepha Sherman and T.K.F. Picking up on Dan T.'s comment about fantasy authors, Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea archipelago includes an island called Selidor. The once melodious rain barrel answers hollow and despairing to my plaints.. Harry Golden, a columnist of the '60s, wrote that "cellar door" was the most mellifluous phrase in the English language. My dollies have the flu 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. It was a rainy day We have a large earth tank on an acre that catches run-off, since we haven't had rain there has not been run off. LOOK down my rain barrel, Choctaw These real estate profiles, blogs and blog entries are provided here as a courtesy to our visitors to help them And bring your LSD Ain't got no rain-barrel, ain't got no cellar door Slide down my cellar door Using Music to Promote Learning 800-649-5514 (480-689-1190). With tearful eye, she breathed a sigh Though as to how else all those Italians and Spaniards would be familiar with the phrase. It seems deeply pointless without the clapping. WebLook down my rain barrel, 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 forever more more more! 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. Forever more more more more more. What does look down the barrel expression mean? WebPlaymate Lyrics. We are moving toward more solar power andwind power and should be thinking of water conservation as well. Below is the one Juanita Ratliff of Sand Springs remembers. I am Australian (and nearly 40 years old) and I have never heard of this verse at all! And bring your monsters three,
And there I'll lock you up slide down my rainbow Tolkien actually uses the word Dumbledores in his light-hearted poem "Errantry", in the line "He battled with the Dumbledores, the Hummerhorns and Honeybees". Slide down my cellar door, into my cellar door GN. The Fuller and Mazzini attributions strike me as pretty far-fetched. And we'll be jolly friends forever more. Well, playmate, I can't come play with you 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 Fall outta my apple tree FWIW: Both are reported nth-hand a a distance of half a century or more from the event, with no intervening record for it. 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. And bring your dollies three, Incidentally, my D&D group used to fight over whether Tolkien would have pronounced words like "celador" with an initial "k." I remember my startlement when I finally saw how the GM was writing the name of my elven arch-nemesis: I had "Khyteron" throughout my notes, he had "Citeron." Slide down my sidewalk But we'll be jolly friends forevermore. I was half way through reading the comments before I managed to construct a picture of what on earth "slide down my cellar door" might look like. It's not surprising in a society where people don't have rain barrels any more that the phrase should morph into the eggcorn 'rainbow.' 2023 ActiveRain, Inc. All Rights Reserved :) homeFair Housing: Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Real Estate Broker/Owner with Sands Realty 210-414-0966 Texas License #0331413, Sands Realty 210-414-0966 - San Antonio, TX, Broker, 210-414-0966, San Antonio TX Real Estate, Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA, Put 40 years of experience to work for you. Boo-hoo-oo-oo-oo. Say, Say my playmate Oh Johnny playmate Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. My neighbor's is so thoroughly frozen now that I doubt if you could shout down it maybe next summer. The fact that Labrador actually comes from the name of one of the Portuguese explorers who mapped the region's coast underscores the Romance substrate in Tolkein's fictionalized Celtic, with the echoes of both audible in /selador/. WebClimb up my apple tree. Forever more. It scans so badly it makes me wonder if it has changed tunes. There's a catchy little tune a floatin' through the air, Designed for the new generation of older adults who are redefining what it means to age and are looking forward to whats next. Are you sure you want to report this blog entry as spam? and bring your dollies three, 111 T.W. @etv13: And so this very morning, the local paper had a review of a concert (which we had attended) in which the sound of the chorus was characterized as "massive yet pellucid", causing my husband to turn to me and say: "Pellucid? It shows the verse in question as follows: Say, say, oh playmate, come out and play with me, And bring your dollies three, Climb up my apple tree, Cry down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door, And we'll be jolly friends forevermore. There was then a response: So sorry playmate It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, With tearful eyes and tender sighs I could Look down my rain barrel I don't remember exactly where I learned these, but I sang them in the early 90s: Say, say, oh playmate, Sound combination? and bring your dolly three Playmates words were likely stolen from I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard, 1894. We serve all areas of San Antonio, including Alamo Heights, Alamo Ranch, Boerne, Bulverde, Castle Hills, Champions, Cibolo, Converse, Deerfield, The Dominion, Encino Park, Fair Oaks Ranch, Garden Ridge, Helotes, Hill Country Village, Hollywood Park, Inwood, Leon Springs, Monte Vista, Northwest San Antonio, North Central San Antonio, Northwood, Olmos Park, Rogers Ranch, Schertz, Shavano Creek, Shavano Park, Sonterra, Stone Oak, Terrell Hills, Universal City, Ft. Sam Houston, and Randolph AFB. My dolly's got the flu WebLook down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. I don't know that song from childhood, but I did know about cellar doors, so the image was clear. His first published song, I'm Mamma's Little Girl was written in 1894. MaryKaye: Rain barrels are illegal in Seattle. Verse 2 Say, say oh playmate, I cannot play with you, My dolly has the flu, Boohoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo. 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. Cannot annotate a non-flat selection. Climb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. 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. He believes it was more like 1915. Forever more more more. and we'll be the best of friends, $MMT = window.$MMT || {}; $MMT.cmd = $MMT.cmd || [];$MMT.cmd.push(function(){ $MMT.display.slots.push(["6e36601e-44cf-4f78-b804-bfbdde6ee2e3"]); }). And we'll be bestest friends for ever more, more, more. Ain't got no cellar door Can't look down your rain barrel, Or slide down your cellar door. WebClimb up my apple tree. Louisiana Conservation Review, 1940, 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. WebClimb up my apple tree Holler down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends Forever evermore. And we'll be jolly friends forever more. I cannot play with you I'm sorry, playmate, Forever more. If so he would have said it before he died in 1872 or if he said it to Fuller, before she died in 1850. An annotation cannot contain another annotation. Make your clothes tear, an' you'll get a lot'a splinters I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you And bring your dollies three. The Fuller attribution begins ""Is there not a story concerned with Margaret Fuller" never a reassuring sign. Trans-Communicator, 1895, 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.' My dolly's got the flu, boo hoo hoo, hoo hoo hoo. This system is great for saving on your water bill and yet having enough water to keep your lawn and garden green and vital. We had a garden, and, yes, we collected water in a rain barrel to supplement our water supply because water was precious!

The .gov means its official.Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. 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. My dolly's got the flu I got no rain barrel, I got no cellar door 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. Disclaimer: ActiveRain, Inc. does not necessarily endorse the real estate agents, loan officers and brokers listed on this site. Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more.

Climb up my apple tree, 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. To supplement Rhoda's comment for those who can't Google: Larry Grayson presented "Shut That Door!" "Playmates" was a big hit for Philip Wingate and Henry W. Petrie in in 1894, in an age swilling in lachrymose sentimentality about childhood. Shout down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door, And we'll be jolly friends Forever more more more more more. They will throw up on you We always sang it "Slide down my rainbow into my cellar door.". So sorry playmate, 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. Can't climb your rain barrel, [or: Ain't got no rain barrel] You know, that slidin' down th cellar door I can't come and play with you In fact, the whole fable is implausible from beginning to end the Spanish admiral who selects to extol, among all things, an English phrase that struck his ear as sounding like his word for "hospital orderly" or the larger premise itself. 'Rain barrel' is completely foreign to this Australian's eyes and ears. She could'nt come out and play, It was a sunny day. Thank you for this service. Oh little playmate You would not play with me 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. The recording, by Sully Mason, on this album, uses "look down my rain barrel."

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