Poem I learned as a kid.

wiplash

One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boy's got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other, pulled they're swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise, and came and shot those two dead boy's.
If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.

Laredo Lefty

I remember that same poem from about 55 years ago.

shooter10

This hung in a cafe we went to in the 1960's:

"cvillderdegotowsandbuzzesinaronojodemistruxsumascauzandsumasdux"

(See Bill. There they go. Thousand buses in a row. No, Joe, them is
trucks. Some has cows and some has ducks)

gruntled

One dark day in the middle of the night two dead boys got up to fight,
One was blind & the other couldn't see so they chose the Devil as the referee,
Back to back they faced each other drew their swords & shot each other,
A deaf policeman heard the noise & came in & shot the two dead boys.

I heard it well over sixty years ago.

Brookwood

I remember both of those versions of the two dead boy poems as a kid back in the late 50's early 60's. A few other's from my fading memory banks......There once was a man from Tunaco, who smoked cigarettes by the stacko, when he was dead, they cut open his head, and found a plug of tobacco......There once was a man from Belair, who didn't have very much hair, someone put glue in the old man's shampoo, and it took off the rest he had there....... Gene Gene made a machine, Joe Joe made it go, Art Art let a fart and blew the damn thing all apart.......Hey kid, what's your name? My name is Don Diego Yago Delavegos Corpus Morpus Cheeko Freako Fernandez Junior.

NeoBlackdog

There once was a man from Euclair
Who liked to do 'it' on the stair
When the bannister broke
He doubled his stroke
And finished her off in the air!

I think I first learned that when I was about 10,
and had no clue what it was about![:o)]

hillbille

quote:Originally posted by NeoBlackdog
There once was a man from Euclair
Who liked to do 'it' on the stair
When the bannister broke
He doubled his stroke
And finished her off in the air!

I think I first learned that when I was about 10,
and had no clue what it was about![:o)]




ever figure it out????????????????[;)]

NeoBlackdog

quote:Originally posted by hillbille
quote:Originally posted by NeoBlackdog
There once was a man from Euclair
Who liked to do 'it' on the stair
When the bannister broke
He doubled his stroke
And finished her off in the air!

I think I first learned that when I was about 10,
and had no clue what it was about![:o)]




ever figure it out????????????????[;)]



Nope.[;)]

11b6r

CDDUX
M8DUX
OSAR
CDWANGS
O-MRDUX

Try it with a south pronunciation.

kimi

Punchline to the first joke about train times, a md puddle, and bananas that my father told me when I was six: In at eight, out at nine, azzhole deep, and three for a dime.

Two from Grandma at age two wit both acted out:

Paper hat, paper collar, put my hands in my pockets and I ain't got a dollar.

While buttoning a shirt from bottom to top- Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian Chief.

Another from Dad: Chickens on the car and the car won't go, that's how you spell Chicago.

Brookwood

Now that just reminded me of another......ABCD PUPPIES LMNO PUPPIES AR2CMPN

Ford 23

This thread woke up some old old memory cells. Enjoyed

asop

Wasn't there also a man from Kent[:D]

wiz1997

I knew a girl whose name was "Stella"[:D]

He Dog

Here is the one my mom recited to me as a kid

The Moo Cow Moo




My papa held me up to the Moo Cow Moo
So close I could almost touch,
And I fed him a couple of times or so,
And I wasn't a fraidy-cat, much.

But if my papa goes in the house,
And my mamma she goes in too,
I keep still like a little mouse
For the Moo Cow Moo might Moo.

The Moo Cow's tail is a piece of rope
All ravelled out where it grows;
And it's just like feeling a piece of soap
All over the Moo Cow's nose.

And the Moo Cow Moo has lots of fun
Just switching his tail about,
But if he opens his mouth, why then I run,
For that's where the Moo comes out.

The Moo Cow Moo has deers on his head,
And his eyes stick out of their place,
And the nose of the Moo Cow Moo is spread
All over the Moo Cow's face.

And his feet are nothing but fingernails,
And his mamma don't keep them cut,
And he gives folks milk in water pails,
When he don't keep his handles shut.

But if you or I pull his handles, why
The Moo Cow Moo says it hurts,
But the hired man sits down close by
And squirts, and squirts, and squirts.

wpage

The Ode of Barnacle Bill the Sailor...

"Well I just got paid and I come to get..."[:o)]

ChrisInTempe

Some good stuff up there alright [:)]

As a boy I had to learn a poem and recite it in class. I picked Gunga Din, by Rudyard Kipling. Possibly because it was the first book with a poem I found in the house.

I was encouraged to watch some old movie and pick up the British accents in it. Don't recall the movies, some late night stuff.

Got a little ways with that, but then discovered John Wayne movies from his early days were also on late nights.

So I learned Gunga Din and practiced the accent...

John Wayne's that is.

Teacher had no imagination about it, none at all. Was not pleased in the least.

Ah well, the class reaction alone was worth it. [}:)]

Mk 19

I had this in my room while growing up:

"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds -
and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of -
wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence.
Hovering there I've chased the shouting wind along
and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.
"Up, up the long delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
and, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
the high untrespassed sanctity of space,
put out my hand and touched the face of God."

discusdad

my favorite poem growing up was FLEAS....adam had em