We would have just assumed that a cellar door was the same as the door to the basement. I objected strenuously that "Citeron" was more like a car than an archvillain, and since I was the campaign chronicler, I had the last word. Does anyone recall this as a stand-alone song from their own childhood? Shut the door. 
And we'll be jolly friends forever more. Come out and play with me Harry Golden, a columnist of the '60s, wrote that "cellar door" was the most mellifluous phrase in the English language. and bring your dollies three,
forever more, more, lock the door. Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. And we'll be jolly enemies, @Dan T.: Well, in fact, in Tolkien's world (n)dor was the Sindarin element meaning "land". What does look down the barrel expression mean? An official website of the United States government. There are claimshow reliable I can't saythat the statement was made by an Italian, or specifically Mazzini, or by an Italian known to Margaret Fuller (who knew Mazzini): Slide down my cellar door
Growing up in Texas we didn't have a cellar door but we did have a rain barrel. The state of Washington has a law against the collection of rainwater by property-owners. forever more. There have been laws against harvesting rainwater in a number of states for quite a while, but in general the laws are becoming more lenient. This looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Can't climb your rain barrel, slide down your cellar door,
Look down my rain-barrel However, 'slide down my sidewalk' is sufficiently brutal. Ain't got no RAIN BARREL,
and retained the catchphrase when he took over "The Generation Game" from Bruce Forsyth. I'm sorry, Playmate, I cannot play with you AdBlock or similar extension is detected on your device. The song figures a couple of times in the 1981 Warren Beatty movie Reds, most unforgettably as sung by Peggy Lee. 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 my dollies have the flu,
The song Playmates enjoyed a renewed popularity when it was recorded by Kay Kyser in 1940 and of course remains popular as a childrens clapping song today. What might occur out of sight in the darkness of a cellar? Journal 1943 Programs). [collected from kids aged 9 and 13 in 1994 in Ontario, Canada]. 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.' Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS). and we'll be jolly friends,
March 22, 2023. 'Cellar door' makes more sense to late 20th century ears, and perhaps movies such as "The Wizard of Oz" and "Arsenic and Old Lace" help keep the concept of a sloped cellar door alive. 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. So sorry, playmate I cannot play with you. All rights reserved. Make sure your selection
And we'll be jolly friends forever more. Come out and fight with me, Second verse courtesy of Vicki Leigh: So sorry, What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry? ASCAP backs this up it's got "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" listed for Petrie, but not anything like "Playmates". WebLook down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. 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. If cellar doors of the American type were not a feature of British house construction (and I'm not sure I believe that) then perhaps British speakers of the turn of the last century were introduced to the phrase by that song . We had a garden, and, yes, we collected water in a rain barrel to supplement our water supply because water was precious! But we'll be jolly friends,
CHORUS: When we sang the line in Playmate I would picture a vague, unsatisfactory scene of a kid somehow clasping himself to a vertical wooden door and inching down, trying to avoid splinters. 
"The phrase in question is "holler down our rain barrel,' " she said. Over the years, there have been some musicians and producers who have since tried to spice the music up to create different renditions of the song but the tune and the lyrics are the same most of the time. And through the cellar door Slide down my sidewalk Why is the phrase considered beautiful? 
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. ", Also, Charles W. Stone, Midwest City, has an album of Columbia musical treasures titled, "The Best of the Big Band Singers." I cannot play with you,
Here's a link selling them as "A great way to garden and conserve water, a precious natural resource. 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,
And we'll be jolly friends Fantasy authors do seem to have a liking for proper names with a -dor ending. It was a rainy day, She couldn't come out to play, and we'll be the best of friends, These included Esther Reding, Shawnee; Clara Forsythe, Chickasha; Leona Tanner, Moore; Kay Bruner, Norman; Isabelle Evans, Lois Gogl, Lawton; Mrs. W.C. Hopson, Shattuck; Jean Vann, Muskogee; Virginia Stephenson, Ponca City; Arlene Buffin, Edith Gill, Retha Bierschank, Oklahoma City. Look down my rain barrel, And well be jolly friends forever more. Rural electric had not as yet come to the area and with no electricity available, our water was rope-drawn from a cistern. Growing up in Seattle, USA, we had roughly the version given here (with "climb down my rain barrel/ Into my cellar door"I don't think Seattle ever had external cellar doors so we had no idea what to make of this). 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. Oops, saved too soon. 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. But we'll be jolly friends forever more The ubiquity of these attributions makes all of them seem implausible. Is the perception of beauty in "cellar door" related to the perceiver's rhoticity? Slide down my rain barrel Into my cellar door And well be jolly friends Forever more, more, more. At that time we lived on a farm many miles from a town and did not have any modern conveniences. Tolkien said somewhere that he was originally inspired by the sound of "Labrador." 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 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. Song parodies are of course very common in children's lore. slide down my cellar door,
It was a sunny day climb up my sycamore* tree. The claim in question is that Mazzini was the source of the observation. Into my coffin door. Climb up my hippie 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. Maybe the fact of growing up in Florida where there are no cellars would be factor. We'd slide an' slide, till our pants got tore Say, Say My Playmate may be done as a clapping game. and we'll be archenemies Religious Telescope, 1906, I am not desirous of having him slide down my cellar door. But if we take 1903 as the first year so far known that the claim "surfaced," then it was not "50+ years after the claim first surfaced." So far as I am concerned he can stay in his own back-yard, his own puddle or whatever his habitat may be. But we'll be jolly friends,
And we'll be blood-sucking vampires So sorry playmate,
WebClimb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel Slide down my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends forever more. They sing it ev'ry where
BusSongs.com has the largest collection of, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Nobody Likes Me (Guess I'll Go Eat Worms). See, e.g., http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-7/thismonth/feature.php: Come out and fight with me Although, a rain barrel is a good idea today!!! 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. It was a sunny day WebPlaymate Lyrics. But we'll be jolly friends Forever more. Tolkien had Mordor, Gondor, and Eriador, while the Harry Potter world has Gryffindor and Dumbledore. My dollies have the flu. and we'll be jolly friends forever more. GN. My dollys got the flu, boo hoo hoo, hoo hoo hoo. https://www.pdinfo.com/PD-Song-List/PD-Song-List-Best-I.php my dolly's got the flu,
To make it slightly harder, the players can add the step putting together both hands, and then the backs of both hands. In it, they plant and take care of a vegetable garden, NIEHS Office of Communications and Public Liaison, NIEHS Staff: Request an Update of This Webpage. National Review, 1898, 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. 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 Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo The version I learned in Tustin, California in about 1970 went: Say, say oh playmate, Slide down my rain barrelInto my cellar doorAnd well be jolly friendsForever more, more, more. For some reason that old song thatgoes "Look down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door" isstuck in mymind today. WebOh Playmate, come out and play with me And bring your dollies three. Help us send the best of Considerable to you. Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. Boo-hoo-oo-oo-oo. Lima (Ohio)News 1968. However, they remind them that they will remain friends, even though they cannot come out to play immediately. Ain't got no rain barrel, 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. And bring your [?? look down the barrel phrase. Slide down my razor blade Playmate come out and play with me and through my dungeon door, A screen can be installed on top of the barrel to keep out mosquitoes, bugs, leaves, and other debris. http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2009/11/euphony-of-cellar-door.html. Actually, theidea from "back in the day"of rain barrels would be awonderful green idea for today. I got no rain barrel, I got no cellar door. Oh, and by the way, rain barrels are illegal in Bend, OR, also. And I could hear her say 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. We serveALL neighborhoods, including Stone Oak, Encino Park, Cibolo Canyons,Deerfield, Rogers Ranch, Sonoma Ranch, Steubing Ranch, Canyon Springs, Alamo Ranch, Champions, Stonewall Ranch, The Dominion, and more. 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.' Now I'm curious about geographical distribution and children's folklore. In Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series, there is an island called Selidor, the westernmost island of the West Reach. You know, that slidin' down th cellar door See see my playmate, Climb up my apple tree. She believes it was a World War II version. Slide down my cellar door GN. forever more more more! I can't come and play with you With tearful eye she breathed a sigh Can't look down your rain barrel, Or slide down your cellar door. 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. Hey, hey, oh playmate,Come out and play with meAnd bring your dollies threeClimb up my apple tree. The following year he tried to "answer" his own hit with You Can't Play In Our Yard Anymore; it flopped. Have your rag dolls and your blue dishes said inexorable adieu to my cellar-door? Sherman and Weisskopf also report a parody version, different from Sharon Goetz's: Say, say, my vampire, My dollies have the flu, Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. As with other songs from that time such as Miss Mary Mack, Oh, Playmate is also popular as a clapping game is also often paired with the song where the children could touch their hands back and forth with their partners while they sang the lyrics of the song. Towards the end, one child tells the other they cannot join them to play for one reason or another. Ha, so Jen in Edinburgh had the same SHUT THAT DOOR as we did in Manchester. Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. forever more, more, shut the door. climb up my apple tree. The songs you've voted to be the very best. It's an archaic word for 'bumblebees'. To supplement Rhoda's comment for those who can't Google: Larry Grayson presented "Shut That Door!" After adding bleach, wait about 24 hours before using the water on your plants to In various forms, slide down my cellar door became a kind of catchphrase to suggest innocent friendship. I wouldn't expect to see anybody make the connection explicit, all the more if they were going to tell a story about having heard the claim from some foreigner. Many of the old treasures have parodistic versions, and "Playmates" didn't escape. into my jail door Aint got no rain barrelAint got no cellar doorBut well be jolly friendsForever more, more, more. 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