About This Quiz
Everyone remembers their childhood playground songs - or at least, we remember the hook, probably the melody, and most of all, we remember how they made us feel. We all loved to sing them with our friends ad nauseam, even when the teachers were getting bored and even we knew on some level that it was time to move on to another ditty. We sang them even when we didn't actually know the origins of many of the songs were super dark (for example, did you know that "Ring a ring of roses" is actually about the Black Death?). We sang them to protest the fact that we'd been forced out of doors irrespective of the weather, we sang them to coordinate our games, and we sang them for the sheer pleasure of singing very badly in a large group when it doesn't matter whether you can actually carry a tune or not. That's why we remember them so very well.
Indeed, since these songs are so memorable and such earworms that they are still stuck in your head ten or twenty or fifty years later, you're not going to have any trouble precisely remembering their lyrics... right? Take this quiz to find out!
Take one down, pass it AROUND....
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If London is burning, you fetch the engine!
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This old man thinks you should give a dog a bone!
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Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's! This song names some major London churches.
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This is the last line of Row, Row, Row Your Boat.
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This song helps you remember your body parts, which is important when you are a small child and it is all new information.
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If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! Or just smile. We won't judge!
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Little teapots are small and stout! They would very much like to show you their handle and their spout.
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An urban legend says this comes from the period of the Black Death where people would carry a "posy" or little bouquet to block out the stench of death.
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Team Cake forever! This is all about getting the baker to bake the speaker a marvelous patty cake.
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You should definitely touch the ground as part of this chant!
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This dance is called the hokey cokey in the UK and the hokey pokey in the US - but it's super fun either place!
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The King sent horses and men to help Humpty out, but alas, they failed!
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For every bear who ever there was will gather there together because today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic!
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Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree. Merry merry king of the bush is he! This Australian ditty is all about a very happy and cute bird.
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As the song reminds us three times, she will in fact be coming around the mountain when she comes.
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As the song Loch Lomond tells us, "Ye'll take the high road and I'll take the low road."
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The sailor went to sea, sea, sea to see what he could see, see, see! Sadly the song doesn't end happily.
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Waltzing Matilda is a famous Australian song with some tremendously amusing Australian words in it!
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The farmer's dog is named Bingo!
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A Chinese restaurant might be an odd place to buy a loaf of bread, but that's what the song says.
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Ip, dip, sky, blue is a fun little chant that is part of a children's game.
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The owl and the pussycat is a nonsense poem by famously silly writer Edward Lear.
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This pretty Irish song about Molly Malone is popular in playgrounds and on buses to school trips.
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This folk song has been adopted into playgrounds.
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Cinderella's fella is upstairs, apparently!
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The soldier totally screws the girl in the song by making her give him presents then revealing that he is already married.
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The farmer wants a wife! She doesn't seem to want him back, though, as successive verses reveal.
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Popeye the sailor man should consider getting better accommodation - though perhaps his lack thereof explains why he's committed to sailing.
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This song involves a monkey who thinks it is a game and a weasel who really doesn't.
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Nellie the Elephant is the story of an elephant who runs away from the circus, instead of to join it.
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This traditional song actually has deep religious roots.
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There's a dance that comes with this charming playground song.
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Most horses are fairly big, but the ones in this particular lullaby turned playground song are little indeed!
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The writer Carolyn Wells wrote this very funny limerick, which we'll include in its entirety to wrap up: A canner exceedingly canny, One morning remarked to his granny, "A canner can can, Anything that he can, But a canner can't can a can, can he?"
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