Come out and play with me You hear it here and there, Come out and fight with me, WebWell, playmate, come out and play with me. WebLook down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. Fresh new songs recently added to our site. It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, 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. Or slide down your cellar door. MaryKaye: Rain barrels are illegal in Seattle. Somewhere along the way, a songwriter and singer known as Saxie Dowell paired an old Victorian rhythm with Leslies song to create the masterpiece that we now know today as Say, Say, Oh, Playmate. We proudly assist clients in every price range throughout the greater San Antonio metropolitan area as well as across the nation. We are moving toward more solar power andwind power and should be thinking of water conservation as well. Into my dungeon door, For this reason c has been preferred to k in both Eldarin languages. I cannot play with you And I could hear her say "Celadore" would be the most romantic spelling, if you ask me. boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo, 5501 W. Ross Dr. It was a rainy day With tearful eye she breathed a sigh Climb up my apple tree. 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.' 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. 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 could hear her say: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you [collected from kids aged 9 and 13 in 1994 in Ontario, Canada]. Ain't got no rain-barrel, ain't got no cellar door Slide down my rain barrelInto my cellar doorAnd well be jolly friendsForever more, more, more. Anne Rachel-Dowell. look down the barrel phrase. In various forms, slide down my cellar door became a kind of catchphrase to suggest innocent friendship. Maples, and Ava Guinn of Oklahoma City said it was written by Saxie Dowell and published in 1940 by Santly-Joy Select, and that the words in question are "look down my rain barrel. In Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series, there is an island called Selidor, the westernmost island of the West Reach. It was a sunny day, she couldn't come out and play, with tearful eyes I heard her say,. Towards the end, one child tells the other they cannot join them to play for one reason or another. The version I learned in Tustin, California in about 1970 went: Say, say oh playmate, Religious Telescope, 1906, I am not desirous of having him slide down my cellar door. We'd slide an' slide, till our pants got tore An annotation cannot contain another annotation. Is there some generalization to be made here about a lack of flexibility in children's application of labels? I'm a bit confused, because the sources I'm turning up pretty uniformly say that "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" was indeed by Wingate and Petrie in 1894, but that "Playmates" was a 1940s original, with melody stolen from a song called "Iola" and lyrics adapted from "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard". I don't know if there was a bridge on Petrie/Wingate's version (probably, plus an intro). here's the way it goes. ASCAP backs this up it's got "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" listed for Petrie, but not anything like "Playmates". WebClimb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. Oh Johnny playmate Climb up my acid tree But we'll be jolly friends (Families that lived in areas that had frequent strong storms and tornadoes may have dug out larger cellars for themselves that would also double as a place for their family to run to for storm protection, but those larger ones were not typical to my childhood experience.) This game plays like solitaire but the action is competitive and challenges your brain to keep track of all the cards. At that time we lived on a farm many miles from a town and did not have any modern conveniences. BIOG: NAME: 2023 www.oklahoman.com. I'm guessing that the open-syllable structure has something to do with it, and I've heard similar claims about other languages thought to be "beautiful" to the ear, i.e. 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". It was a rainy day The site is secure.The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely. Slide down my rain barrel climb up my apple tree Slide down the drainpipe 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. WebSay, say, oh playmate, Come out and play with me And bring your dollies three Climb up my apple tree Slide down my rainbow Into my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends Forever more, 1-2-3-4 It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out and play With tearful eyes, she breathed a sigh And I could hear her say: Say, say, oh playmate I cannot play with you My dolly's got and we'll be jolly friends, You can purchase or, if you are handy, construct a rain barrel to collect water to use for gardens, flower pots, and car and window washing. I have no rain barrel
I could hear her say: CHORUS 2: I'm sorry Playmate, I cannot play with you. Categories . I am not desirous of having him slide down my cellar door. Climb up my apple tree, I've thought that was interesting for a kid's idea of what an opposite is. So far as I am concerned he can stay in his own back-yard, his own puddle or whatever his habitat may be. In Tom Rapp's glorious lisp, the lyrics to that version are: Well, playmate, come out and play with me Tolkien said somewhere that he was originally inspired by the sound of "Labrador." Please include name and address. Actually, theidea from "back in the day"of rain barrels would be awonderful green idea for today. Rural electric had not as yet come to the area and with no electricity available, our water was rope-drawn from a cistern. Could the songs have been the immediate inspiration for the claim that cellar door is the most beautiful phrase in the English language? Song parodies are of course very common in children's lore. Can my ex-husband bar me from his retirement benefits? "Playmates" was a big hit for Philip Wingate and Henry W. Petrie in in 1894, in an age swilling in lachrymose sentimentality about childhood. Oak Park (IL) Argus, 1901, 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. 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. The Fuller attribution begins ""Is there not a story concerned with Margaret Fuller" never a reassuring sign. Great starting points to find inspiration. Please disable blocking extensions so Bussongs.com can provide you 100% experience. and retained the catchphrase when he took over "The Generation Game" from Bruce Forsyth.
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and bring your dolly three In 1970's Manchester (England) it was a clapping song, only different by: A tape, by The Jingleheimers, was played by Cindy Sly of Oklahoma City to discover it says, "slide down my rainbow, slide down my cellar door ". Though as to how else all those Italians and Spaniards would be familiar with the phrase. Is there something wrong with me that I can't imagine how "Slide down my cellar door" could possibly sound innocent to an adult (or even a teenager)? ain't got no cellar door, But we'll be jolly friends Forever more. Slide down my cellar door. All rights reserved. ain't got no rain barrel, The original lyrics were: Say, say, oh playmate, The first time I heard of "celador" as something special was when "Who wants to be a Millionaire" premiered in the US. Opinions may differ on this point.). Come out and play with me, With tearful eye, she breathed a sigh PLAYMATES Ain't got no cellar door, slide down my cellar door ", Also, Charles W. Stone, Midwest City, has an album of Columbia musical treasures titled, "The Best of the Big Band Singers." Second verse courtesy of Vicki Leigh: So sorry, Out of curiosity, what is so alluring about sliding down a cellar door? The Fuller and Mazzini attributions strike me as pretty far-fetched. Oops, saved too soon. Im sorry playmate, I cannot play with you/My dollies have the flu/Boo-hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo-hoo/Cant climb your rain barrel/Cant slide down your cellar door/But well Somewhere along the way the friend-one and the enemy-one seem to have got a bit jumbled. 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 My dollies have the flu, Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. Oh PLAYMATE, come out and play with me And we'll be jolly friends forever more. Make sure your selection Come out and play with me. I've never heard any version of this song before, and am mystified as to why "cellar door" should be considered beautiful. Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. and through my dungeon door, WebLyrics: Hey, hey, 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. That size barrel you showed is great for city living. But you must'n tell where * And I'm having trouble finding anything before 1940 that references the "Come out and play with me" lyrics. Forever more, Apparently I learned it wrong.
holler down my rainbarrel I have no rain barrel, I have no WebClimb up my apple tree. Suggestive of Celadon in the commedia dell'arte. Shirley - We capture water (that is if we ever have rain again). climb up my sycamore* tree. Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door. WebClimb up my apple tree Slide down my rain barrel Into my cellar door, And we'll be jolly friends Forever more! And bring your monsters three, Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. And bring your LSD At 85, Ruvella Nelson of Oklahoma City remembers playing and singing this song years ago. And we'll be enemies 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: my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door Come out and fight with me starts and ends within the same node. and bring your dollies three, My sister's got the flu WebClimb up my apple tree. And we'll be jolly friends forever more And we'll be jolly enemies, Look down my rain barrel And we'll be jolly friends Forever more. Minor note: the date to beat for the assertion is not 1905 but 1903. Look down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door. These were two person clapping game songs, with the final repetitions on "more" being very emphatic two-hand claps with partner. Oh Playmate, come out and play with me But we'll be jolly friends forever more. More, more, more. Some videos may not be played. And Greece has said to Roumania, "You can't slide down my cellar-door any 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. My neighbor's is so thoroughly frozen now that I doubt if you could shout down it maybe next summer. 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"). We always sang it "Slide down my rainbow into my cellar door.". The song figures a couple of times in the 1981 Warren Beatty movie Reds, most unforgettably as sung by Peggy Lee. Climb up my hippie tree and we'll be jolly friends forever more. We serve all of San Antonio, including the cities of Alamo Heights, Terrell Hills, Shavano Park, Hollywood Park, Hill Country Village, Bulverde, Garden Ridge, Schertz, Cibolo, Converse, Universal City. And through the cellar door (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. And bring your dolly too So sorry, playmate But we'll be jolly friends It was a sunny day, she couldn't come out to play 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. and bring your dollies three, Elizibeth Thank you fr those lyrics.My mother used to sing that song for me when I was just a we oneI am now 75 years young.That is a testimoney as to how old that song is. It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, With tearful eyes and tender sighs I could My dollys got the flu. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101078190236;view=1up;seq=46 Inasmuch as the observation has been laid to indefinite numbers of speakers of French, Spanish, and Italian, there's no reason at all to credit this particular story. Venmo, Cash App and PayPal: Can you really trust your payment app? Slide down my sidewalk I heard the song from my mother as a kid. ", I can't say I care for the sound of "Kirdan the Shipwright.". With tears in her eyes I heard her sigh and then I heard her say, My dolly's got the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo The once melodious rain barrel answers hollow and despairing to my plaints.. Thats the last instance of the phrase that I can find where it's used that way. Sorry, it looks like you were previously unsubscribed. So, for that matter, would be Dowell's mention of sliding down the cellar door and hollering into the rain barrel, which he obviously didn't come up with independently. We did know what cellar doors were, if only from movies like The Wizard of Oz.). Ain't got no cellar door Contact Shirley Parks with Sands Realty at 210-414-0966 or email shirleyparkshomes@gmail.com. See see my playmate, $MMT = window.$MMT || {}; $MMT.cmd = $MMT.cmd || [];$MMT.cmd.push(function(){ $MMT.display.slots.push(["6e36601e-44cf-4f78-b804-bfbdde6ee2e3"]); }). @MaryKaye: In Appendix E, Tolkien says explicitly, "The High-Elven Quenya has been spelt as much like Latin as its sounds allowed.
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Slide down my rainbow When I was at primary school (Devon, late 90s) it was: See see, my playmate (Mazzini died in 1872.) ', If you see my friend Prince Krapotpin tell him I should be glad to have him holler down my rain barrel or slide down my cellar door any time. 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". Climb up my apple tree. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal government site. 3. the throes of dementia. We really do need to add some additional clay soil to help seal the tank. She could'nt come out and play, It was a sunny day. 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. seems nobody knows. Many readers responded, some with totally different versions of the song. forever more more more! There's a catchy little tune a floatin' through the air,
With a bent pin for a hook Forever more, "Dungeon door" doesn't have the mellifluousness of "cellar door", but maybe that's the childhood nostalgia talking. 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. 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." My dollies have the flu,
You know, that slidin' down th cellar door A screen can be installed on top of the barrel to keep out mosquitoes, bugs, leaves, and other debris. How it started, where it started
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/. Slide down my blood spout, What does look down the barrel expression mean? However, 'slide down my sidewalk' is sufficiently brutal. And bring your dollies three
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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. MaryKaye, the song also seems pointless to me without the clapping. Kay Kyser Climb up my graveyard tree, 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. 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. They will throw up on you A Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. Lit. Also no one thought to replace "jolly. 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. Golden was famed for his "vertical negro plan" and other spoofs of the segregationist South. For some reason that old song thatgoes "Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door" isstuck in mymind today. 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. But to me growing up in the 80s and 90s, that sort of door had strong connotations of decrepitness, so my first thought on reading the line was "ouch" as my mental image of such a door is either rusty or splintery depending on its material. 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. 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. Forever more, more, As to the beauty of cellar door I wonder if some element of it may be the presence of the mellifluous liquid "l". But we'll be jolly friends, forever more. Lima (Ohio)News 1968. What a Beautiful Morning (G.I. My dollies have the flu Until now I only was aware of "Playmates" as a song by Pearls Before Swine on their 1967 album One Nation Underground, and had no idea it wasn't original to them. boo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo
Forever more. Shut the door. However, they remind them that they will remain friends, even though they cannot come out to play immediately. The .gov means its official.Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door And I could hear her say, With tearful eyes and tender sighs
Climb down the drain pipe, and to the cellar door. 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. Ain't got no rain barrel Ain't got no cellar door, But we'll be jolly friends Forever more more more more more. climb up my apple tree. forever more, more, shut the door. Can't slide your cellar door [or: Ain't got no cellar door]
(Willie Nelson recorded a version a version a few years ago.) Rain barrels are back used to collect water for garden use. They sing it ev'ry where
Forever more, more, more. MaryKaye: I think rhotic "cellar door" is pretty euphonious. Forever more more more more more. I'm sorry, Playmate, I cannot play with you Come out and fight with me I'm sorry, playmate, Its super easy, we promise! boo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo
And bring your monsters three And through the cellar door 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. And we'll be jolly friends forever more. Thank you for this service. Slide down my razor blade 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. And well be jolly friends Forever more. 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. Have your rag dolls and your blue dishes said inexorable adieu to my cellar-door? Slide down my cellar door
Its being the westernmost island and the abode of dragons, which you mention, must be part of that. 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 With tearful For the Iola claim: 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.' 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. Irene Pittman, Del City, found "Playmates" in a "Wee Sing and Play" book. And bring your dollies three, She couldn't come out and play, Ain't got no rain barrel, Say, Say my playmate
Their folk version has the rainbow: Ceecee, my playmate, and we'll be jolly friends
I looked up the lyrics for you, Shirley, because I remember that song, too. Disclaimer: ActiveRain, Inc. does not necessarily endorse the real estate agents, loan officers and brokers listed on this site. ", 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?". And we'll be jolly friends forever more. What might occur out of sight in the darkness of a cellar? I've never encountered the song or a sloping cellar door. One of the many useless facts I picked up from reading The History of Middle-Earth (Christopher Tolkien's multi-volume compilations of his father's drafts, notes, essays, etc.) J. W. Brewer is right about the closed, sloped cellar door. Can't look down your rain barrel, Or slide down your cellar door. Can't climb your rain barrel, slide down your cellar door,
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 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. Come out and play with me Make your clothes tear, an' you'll get a lot'a splinters My dollie has the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
come out and play with me
"which can only be from a TV presenter's catchphrase of the day.". seems nobody knows. . Wine Journeys 1949. And bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. Ain't got no RAIN BARREL,
look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door