[Sundae]

The East End (where my family were from) was replete with off-colour ditties, and we sang them as children, not really knowing they weren't quite suitable.

We had nursery rhymes and skipping games of course, but if I list all the ones I remember we'll be here ages. Better to tell you some you might not hear elsewhere!

We used to sing "When we go down hopping" - East End families used to go and pick hops in Kent as a working holiday, my Dad went once but doesn't remember it, his older brothers did. I've made the rhymes below Cellar-specific, they were often about family - we used to sing about Nanny Doyle. There were no set verses, just numbers and what you could make them rhyme with.

When we go down hopping
We knock at number one
See the Mercenary
Polishing his gun
With an e-i-o, e-i-o, e-i-e-i-o!

When we go down hopping we knock at number too
See old Lumberjimus
Farting on the loo
With an e-i-o, e-i-o, e-i-e-i-o!
etc etc

And:

All of a sudden, a dirty great puddin'
Come flying through the air
Aimed at my brother, it hit my poor Mother
and knocked her off the chair
Now
Ain't it a pity, she's only one titty
To bash against the wall.....

don't ask - I have no idea!