The Singing Street: children playing in Edinburgh (1950s)

[agaichapter25]

neh fatties then eh?

[Azizip17]

3nd verse Ice cake spice cake soft parfait (?) [pronounced "partee"] And we'll have a wedding At half past three 4rd verse Pomp Pomp Here comes the taxicab Pomp Pomp Here comes the taxicab Pomp Pomp Here comes the taxicab [We're] ready for the wedding at half-past three

[Azizip17]

Here's my transcription of this rhyme. The (?) means I'm unsure about that word or line. DOWN IN THE VALLEY WHERE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS 1st verse: Down in the valley where the green grass grows/there's a lady green (?) She grows {?) like a rose. She grows (?), she grows, she grows so sweet That she calls for a ladder (?) At the end of the street. 2nd verse Sweetheart, sweetheart Will you marry me? Yes, love, yes love [at] Haft past three.

[Azizip17]

Thanks for posting this video. I was surprised to see the Scottish girls jumping Double Dutch as a street game in the 1950s as I didn't know that Double Dutch was known in Scotland then. The way that girl jumps is different than the acrobatic, dance DD moves that Black girls do for fun.The wiki artiicle on DD notes that it started in American inner cities. But that article also notes that DD came over with the first Dutch settlers or appeared in the first half of the 1900s. Which is it?

[Truddick1944]

Does anyone know who the girls were jumping rope?

[BillDFC]

Nae fat bairns then!

[LNER4468]

Not all Edinburgh children's playing songs were so sweet...

"Doon the close and up the stair,

Mind yir back for Burke and Hare.

Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief,

Knox the man wha buys the beef."

[freacls]

that was cute kids dont sing like that anymore really its tv themes they sing or the Sailor moon them when i was at school come on a japanese anime sung by scottish school kids we didnt have these songs

[jane21eajh]

Loved it ..Brilliant.