We all chanted them in the playground, the two below being the most popular from my primary school , any other offers from your memories.


Build a bonfire out of schoolbooks,
Put the teacher on the top,
Put the prefects in the middle
And we'll burn the bloody lot.



Glory Hallilua Glory, glory hallilua Teacher hit me with a ruler

(Can’t remember the rest)

Ketta

Here’s a playground rhyme which Des O’Connor made his own in 1968:

One, two, three O’Leary
Games I played with Mary,
I punched her up the knickers
During tea at the vicar’s.

KETTA

The rest of yours that time has erased.


Father hit me with a Walking Stick
And made me black & blue.



Steve M

The ruler broke and went up in smoke!

“Make up, make up, never do it again.
If you do, you’ll get the cane.”

With little fingers linked, this was chanted by children who, having quarrelled, wished to renew their friendship.