children's playground games

I remember that one Fennel. A cruel game really.
There were lots of skipping rhymes I the school playground and I remember that one bohemian. There was a similar one which was one of only a couple where the boys joined in too. There were 'rounds' which got more and more complex and the more successful you were the higher the army rank you achieved. If you got knocked out in round one you had to leave the army in disgrace.

Wow! Your memory is good Fennel. It's a very poignant little rhyme.

I can remember fragments of lots of children's chants - dipping, circle games, two balls, skipping songs (I lived in London at the time) but they all seem to get muddled up or merge into one. I remember a similar skipping chant - on the lines of:

Bluebells, cockle shells, evvie, ivee, over....
When I call your birthday,
please come in..
January, February, etc...
with two girls (always girls) turning the rope either side (right across the road) and participants would have to skip in and out quickly without being caught, and if you got caught you would have to take over one of the rope ends.