Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket

15 Jun 05 - 12:09 PM (#1501661)
Subject: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Cool Beans

Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's your pocket?
In my pants.
Where's your pants?
I left them home.
Get out of here!

Anyone know how this bit of comedy begins? When my cousin and I were about 5 we marched up and down the boardwalk at Coney Island chanting this until a man threw a glass of water at us (well, not the whole glass, just the water). That was about 50 years ago and I'm still traumatized. I think my cousin's all right, though.

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15 Jun 05 - 12:19 PM (#1501676)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: dick greenhaus

When I was child (some 70 years ago), we chanted the same thing, with the added ending for the last line,
"... you dirty bum."

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15 Jun 05 - 01:33 PM (#1501723)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Highlandman

As taught me by a bachelor uncle:
I'm not too sure about the first four lines, but the rest was seared into my impressionable little mind.

Knock, knock-
Who's there?
Open the door,
Walk in.
Whaddya want?
A glass o' beer.
Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's your pocket?
In my pants.
Where's your pants?
At home.
Get outta here, ya dirty bum!

Chanted in a repetitive minor-third pattern (like nya-nya-nya-nya-nya)
-HM

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15 Jun 05 - 04:41 PM (#1501885)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Cool Beans

Thank you, Highlandman! I do remember "Whaddya want? A glass of beer." And I think you're pretty close on "Knock knock. Who's there."

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16 Jun 05 - 09:15 AM (#1502242)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Mr Red

This sounds remarkably like the part of a Pace Egging song wot I collected from an old Folkie who used to live in Acrrington (Church and Oswoldtwistle to be precise)

The words can be found on the songs pages of cresby.com look for collected songs "I'm a Paper Lad".

A couple who come from there but are maybe in their 50's told me I had not got the words right but take that as the folk process. I have tried to get their version - I am hopeful.

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16 Jun 05 - 12:28 PM (#1502279)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Highlandman

Thanks, Mr. R - what you have there is different enough to suggest that the underlying shtick predates both versions. I still can't quite remember the start of the one I learned.
-HM

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16 Jun 05 - 02:06 PM (#1502351)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: gnomad

Rat-a-tat-tat (door knocking gesture)
Who is that?
On-ly Grandma's pu-ssy-cat.
What d'you want?
A pint of milk.
Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's your pocket?
I for-got it.
Oh you si-lly pu-ssy-cat!

Kids set of call and answer "game" from my childhood (UK, northern). Hard to reproduce the rhythm on the page, quite stacatto (sp?) though.

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17 Jun 05 - 02:48 AM (#1502789)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring

This is the entry in my collection of "bairnsangs". I thought I sent this in to the Digitrad DB, but perhaps not.


        Far are ye gaein'? Across the gutter.

        Fat for? A pund o' butter.

        Far's yer money? In my pocket.

        Far's yer pocket? Clean forgot it!


- That "Fa" by the way = General Scots "Wha". [Aberdonian dialect]
        
Source of quote is:
        Jean C. Rodger, Lang Strang (1948), 13, from Forfar, c. 1910. Cf. Ritchie Golden City (1965), 48, counting-out from Edinburgh, "Who's there?/ Tiny Tiny Bear", etc. [See Opies Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959), 10, a fascinating (and all too rare) series of comparisons covering two and a quarter centuries, the earliest specimen being lines from Henry Carey's satire Namby Pamby, 1726: "Now he acts the Grenadier,/ Calling for a Pot of Beer:/ Where's his Money? He's forgot:/ Get him gone, a Drunken Sot."]

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20 Dec 05 - 05:59 PM (#1631665)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST

Neenana, knock at the door
Whose there?
Granpa.
Whaddya want?
A glass of beer.
Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's pocket?
In my pants.
Where's your pants?
I left them home.
Get outta here ya bad boy!

That's how my granpa would sing it to my sister and me. :)

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21 Dec 05 - 08:56 AM (#1632082)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Mo the caller

Gnomad's verse "grandma's pussy cat" was around in London too in the late 40s

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22 Dec 05 - 05:42 AM (#1632749)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Wyrd Sister

Thanks gnomad - I remembered 'Oh you silly pussycat' but was struggling to remember the opening.
(Northern UK, taught by grandmother born 1911)

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22 Dec 05 - 07:14 AM (#1632783)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Raggytash

Actually its Raggytash's Mrs - Wombat -
Raggytash taught me that version about the silly pussycat years ago and this is the first reference I have ever seen of it. I think he learned it from his grandmother, also North of England.

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22 Dec 05 - 07:46 PM (#1633388)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Cool Beans

This is why I love folklore, and Mudcat.

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22 Dec 05 - 09:28 PM (#1633448)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Jim Dixon

Here's a bit of dialogue I recall. It could start whenever anyone had just complained about some misfortune, to which someone else would reply, "That's tough."
Then a third person would reply:
--What's tough?
And the dialogue between the latter two would continue:
--Life.
--What's Life?
--A magazine.
--How much does it cost?
--Ten cents.
--I've only got a nickel.
--That's tough.
--What's tough?

Da capo ad infinitum, or ad nauseam, as the case may be.

This dialogue was spoken, not sung. It had no punch line. The dialogue itself was the only joke. I suppose it was done to annoy or embarrass the person who had originally complained—a way of making fun of his complaint. Now that I reflect on it, it seems to be making the point that complaints are endless, if you indulge them. But I don't think I reflected that much when I was a kid.

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23 Dec 05 - 08:26 AM (#1633719)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Snuffy

You remind me of the man
What man?
The man with the power
What power
The power of hoodoo
Who do?
You do
Do what?
Remind me of the man

(remembered from some old B&W film - Marx brothers?)

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23 Dec 05 - 09:23 AM (#1633754)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: BuckMulligan

Snuffy, "the man with the power" occurs (don't know about "originates") in "The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer" with Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple, 1947. Lightweight flick but amusing.

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19 Aug 10 - 11:45 AM (#2968679)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,ca

Knock Knock Who's there Grandpa What do you want a glass of beer ...(glass of milk) Where's your money... in my pocket Where's your pocket... in my pants Where are your pants .... I left them home Where do you live.... across the street What's your number?... Cucumber

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19 Aug 10 - 05:27 PM (#2968894)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Joe_F

What's you name?
Puddin' Tane. Ask me again, and I'll tell you the same.

*

Spring is coming.
He is?
Not "He is", "It is".
It is what?
It is coming.
What is coming?
Spring is coming.
He is?

*

You dencink?
You eskink?
I'm eskink if you're dencink.
I'm dencink, if your eskink.
So I'm eskink!
So I'm dencink!

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20 Aug 10 - 08:31 AM (#2969298)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Donna F

My mom taught us this, and we taught our kids, and now we're teaching our grandkids. Yesterday, (I'm getting older), I couldn't think of the start. So glad I found this page. The way we do it is

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Grandpa
What do you want?
A glass of beer
Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's your pocket?
In my pants
Where are your pants?
I left them home
Where do you live?
across the street
What's your number?
Cucumber
GET OUT OF HERE, YA DRUNKEN BUM

Then we all laugh hysterically, thinking how inappropriate this is to teach kids. But we love it.

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21 Jan 11 - 12:16 AM (#3079157)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,pat

My grandmother taught me this song:   It goes:

Knock Knock
Who's there?
What do you want?
A glass of beer.
Where's your money?
In my pants.
Where's your pants?
At Home.
Get out of here, you dirty bum....

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20 May 11 - 03:29 PM (#3157725)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST

knock knock
who's there
grandpop
what do you want
a glass of beer
where's your money
in my pocket
where's your pocket
in my pants
where's your pants
i left them home
get out of here you dirty bum

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29 Jul 11 - 10:37 PM (#3198279)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Chria

Grampa and Marjorie are talking:

See saw, Marjorie dear
Whaddy want?
A glass of beer.
Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's your pocket?
In my pants.
Get outta here, you crazy man!

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30 Jul 11 - 12:31 AM (#3198315)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: LadyJean

The dialog about the Man with the power comes from "The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer", which starred Carey Grant as the bachelor and Shirley Temple as the Bobby Soxer.

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30 Jul 11 - 05:04 AM (#3198372)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray

David Bowie sings it in Labyrinth too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViftZTfRSt8

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03 Nov 11 - 04:33 PM (#3249890)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,mike

When I was a kid (60s) I was told it as:

See saw, marjorie daw
Whos there? Grandpa
Whaddaya want? A glass of beer
Wheres your money
In my pocket
Wheres your pocket
In my pants
Wheres your pants
I left 'em home
Get outta here, ya drunken bum!

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18 Nov 11 - 03:47 PM (#3259555)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Robert L.

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Old Granny Dear.
What do you want?
A bottle of Beer.
Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's your pocket?
Oh, I forgot it.
Well get out of here you silly blocket (sic), don't come round here without no pocket.

Does anybody know the history of this knock knock? It has been in our family for many generations and probably came from North Carolina, possibly centuries ago.

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25 Mar 12 - 10:50 AM (#3328630)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Samantha

My father used to sing it like this:

-Knock, Knock, Knock at the door
Who's there?
Granpa
Whaddya want?
A glass o' beer
Where's your money?
In my pocket
Where's your pocket?
In my pants
Where's your pants?
I left them at home
Get outa here you drunken man!!

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14 Jul 12 - 10:00 AM (#3376101)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,JMS

I LOVE reading all the variations!!! Im 38yrs. Old and am currently visiting with my mom who used to sing this to my sister and I. We got to talking about it and her version was:
See saw mardgery daw
Wheres your money?
In my pocket
Wheres your pocket?
In my pants
Wheres your pants?
Home
Where do you live?
Across the street
Whats your number?
Cucumber

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01 Aug 12 - 08:04 AM (#3384532)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Mike Mc

Just a slight variation as well - learned from my Grandmother who grew up in Manhattan and the Bronx....

See Saw
Knock at the door
Who's there?
Grandpa.
What do you want?
A glass of beer.
Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's your pocket?
In my pants.
Where's your pants?
I left them home.
Get out of here you dirty old man!

(different beginning and ending - but basically the same!)

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12 Oct 12 - 03:21 AM (#3418435)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST

Born 1973 (and raised) Brooklyn NY. We sang it everytime we were on a see-saw.
This was our version:

See-saw, knock on the door
Who's there Grandpa.
Whaddya want?
A bottle a beer.
Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's your pocket ?
In my coat?
Where's your coat?
I left it home.
Get outta here ya drunken old man!!

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17 Feb 13 - 01:06 AM (#3480593)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,EK

Knock knock.
Who's there?
A grenadier.
What do you want?
A pint of beer.
Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's your pocket?
I forgot it.
Get along home you silly blockhead.

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08 Mar 13 - 07:10 AM (#3487941)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST

Born in Brooklyn, 1972. This thread helped me remember how my grandpa would sing it to us. Thanks everyone!

See-saw
Knock on the door
Who's there
Grandpa Frank
Whadda ya want
A drink of beer
Where's your money
In my pocket
Where's your pocket
In my pants
Where's your pants
The Brooklyn bridge!

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08 Apr 13 - 05:33 PM (#3500648)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Rochester ny

My grandmother was from Brooklyn, born in 1922. Her version ended:

Where's your pants?
I left them home.

Go home, get your money, then you'll get your glass of beer!

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24 Apr 13 - 09:41 AM (#3508184)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST

Knock, knock
Whose there
Grandpa
What do you want?
A glass of beer.
Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's your pocket?
I left it home.
Get out of here drunken man!
That is how my grandma n mom sang it to me. Lol

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25 Apr 13 - 06:01 AM (#3508578)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Sanjay Sircar

1. I know that "Grenadier" nursery rhyme sans the "Knock-knock" and answer, as

"Who goes there?"
A Grenadier.
"What d'you want?"
A glass of beer.
"Where's your money?"
I've forgot.
"Get you gone - you drunken sot!"

(This was from a book, not folk transmission.)

2. I know one of the others cited above, again sans any knock-knock and not as a song (Calcutta, 1963, schoolfriend Dilip Palit):

What's your name?
Pudding Tame.
Where d'you live/
Up the lane.
What's your number?
Twenty-two cumber [?]
What d'you eat?
Friday meat.
What d'you drink?
Black ink.

Amazing, the fruits of colonialism.

Sanjay Sircar

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17 Aug 13 - 10:22 AM (#3550152)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,oldpantsnewjersey

My grandmother's ending variation was:

"Get out of here, you dirty, drunken bum!"

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02 Dec 13 - 01:33 PM (#3580750)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST

It's goes :

Knock knock
Who's there ?
Grandpa
What'd 'you want ?
A glass of beer
Where's your money ?
In my pocket
Where's your pocket ?
In my pants
Where's your pants ?
I forgot them
Get out of here you dirty old bum!


That's how my father and grandma use to sing it

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02 Dec 13 - 07:46 PM (#3580850)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Jean, Norwalk CT

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15 Jan 14 - 08:05 AM (#3592272)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST

I'm 32 my grandmother always said this to us and my sister and o say it to our kids. Knock knock who's there grandpa .what do ya want? A glass of beer where's ya money ? in my pocket .where's ya pocket? in my pants where's ya pants left them home.get. outta here you drunken man

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24 Mar 14 - 02:53 PM (#3612448)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,I KNOW THE LYRICS

I know the lyrics

See saw, rockedy daw (or margery daw)
who's there, (insert name here)
whadd'ya want?
a bottle o' beer
wheres your money?
in my wallet
wheres your wallet?
in my pocket
wheres your pocket?
in my pants
where are your pants?
left 'em at home
where do you live?
across the street
whats your number?
CUCUMBER

thats what was sung to me when I was little at least

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06 Apr 14 - 04:16 AM (#3615907)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Pheasant

I grew up in the Philadelphia, PA suburbs in the '80s, but my family is originally from Brooklyn. I knew a slightly different version from any of those previously listed.

Seesaw Margery Daw
Who's There?
Grandpa!
What do you want?
A glass of beer!
Where's your money?
In my pocket!
Where's your pocket?
In my pants!
Where's your pants?
At home!
Go and get 'em!
Seesaw Margery Daw (repeat if annoying)

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07 Apr 14 - 03:29 AM (#3616335)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Jim Carroll

Where you going Bob
Down the lane Bob
What for Bob
Stick of Roo Bob
Let's come Bob
No Bob
Why Bob
Because you don't like roo-bob Bob
Jim Carroll

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18 Nov 14 - 12:15 AM (#3677963)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST

This was ours:

Knock knock
Who's there?
Just a little teddy bear.
What do you want?
Just a beer.
Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's your pocket?
In my pants.
Where's your pants?
In my closet.
Where's your closet?
In my house.
Where's your house?
Around the corner.
What's your number?
CUCUMBER!

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21 Aug 15 - 09:40 AM (#3732083)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,itsdenhaley

From Brooklyn, 1965
See saw, knock at the door
Who's there?
Grandpa!
Whadya want?
A glass a beer
Where's your money?
In my pocket
Where's your pocket?
In my pants
Where's your pants?
I left 'em home
Go home, ya big, fat bum!!

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29 Dec 15 - 02:04 PM (#3761570)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST, Jon and GG

I love reading this thread! My mom (may she rest in peace) taught this to us. She grew up in Brooklyn in the 40's and 50's. The version she taught us went like this:

See saw, knock at the door.
Who's there?
Grandpa.
Waddaya want?
A glass of beer.
Where's your money?
In my wallet.
Where's your wallet?
Upstairs, in my pants. Get out before I punch you in the nose!

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30 Dec 15 - 09:41 AM (#3761708)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Uncle_DaveO

GUEST, Robert L gave us these lines:

Oh, I forgot it.
Well get out of here you silly blocket (sic), don't come round here without no pocket.

and GUEST EK gave us:

Where's your pocket?
I forgot it.
Get along home you silly blockhead.

I'd bet money that "blocket" was one of three things, probably from way back in the folk processing:
   a Mondegreen for "blockhead", or
   a deliberate change for the sake of the rhyme, or
   a dialectal version of "blockhead".

My pick of the above would be the third one.

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30 Dec 15 - 12:44 PM (#3761757)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Peter

My mother had a version that she must have thought was a "girls" rhyme as she never taught it to me but I remember her saying it to my cousin's daughters.

I never did think to note it down or ask her where she learned it before she died.

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30 Dec 15 - 07:38 PM (#3761847)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Michael Aff

Here's what Mom taught us:

See saw
Knock at the door
Who's there?
Grandpa
What do you want?
A glass of beer
Where's your money?
In my pocket
Where's your pocket?
Upstairs in the bedroom
Get outta here before I punch you in the nose!

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31 Dec 15 - 04:38 AM (#3761895)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Thompson

Sanjay, it's dual fruits of colonialism, because your version clearly comes originally from Ireland, where the second line would have been "pudding and cream" (pronounced "crame") and the Friday meat is breaking the fish-only Catholic fast of Friday by naughtily eating meat.

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31 Dec 15 - 09:45 AM (#3761985)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Cool Beans

Ooh, look what I started. Ten years and running...Fascinating stuff.

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31 Dec 15 - 10:20 AM (#3761995)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Jim Carroll

The verse was often tagged onto the end of a girl's skipping rhyme in the infant school I attended in Liverpool

Where' you going Bob,
Down the lane Bob
What for Bob,
Stick of roobob Bob
Let's come Bob,
No Bob
Why Bob,
Because you don't like roobob, Bob
Then:
Where's your money?
In my pocket,
Where's your pocket?
I forgot it.
One, two, three.......etc

Fancy me remembering that!!!!
Jim Carroll

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31 Dec 15 - 07:29 PM (#3762104)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Thompson

Rhubarb?

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01 Jan 16 - 07:38 AM (#3762175)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Jim Carroll

"Rhubarb?"
Yes, but doesn't rhyme with Bob - hence roobob
Jim Carroll

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15 Mar 17 - 01:21 PM (#3845086)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Abby Meth

Here's our version, sung by my father (who owned a tavern, so appropriate to him) in Passaic, NJ, in the 1950s:

See, saw, Marjorie Daw
Who's there? Grandpa
What do you want? A glass of beer
Where's your money? In my wallet
Where's your wallet? In my pocket
Where's your pocket? In my pants
Where's your pants I left them home
Get out of here, you dirt bum!

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03 Aug 17 - 09:29 PM (#3869794)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Jbezel221

A lady I know who started as a client has become like a grandma to me. Told me this version.

See saw Marjorie Daw
Knock at the door
Who's there,Grandpa
What do you want? A glass of beer.
Where's your money? In my wallet.
Where's your wallet? In my pocket.
Where's your pocket? In my pants.
Where's your pants? I left them home.
Get outta here you drunkin bum.

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04 Apr 19 - 03:49 PM (#3985943)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Robyn Connelly

I'm 45 now and this is how I remember it.

Knock knock
Who's There
Just a little teddy bear
What do you want? A glass of Milk.
Where's your money? In my pocket.
Where's your pocket? In my coat.
Where's your coat? In my closet
Where's your closet? In my house
Where's your house? Down on the corner.
What's your number? Cumcumber!

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07 Apr 19 - 03:16 PM (#3986334)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Mrrzy

Seesaw Margery daw, Bonny has got a new master
She shall not earn but a penny a day, because she can't work any faster.

Is the only use of Margery Daw I knew as a child.

For the forgotten pants You dirty bum is funniest because you can see how dirty his bum is!

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18 Jun 19 - 11:40 PM (#3996999)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,FoxInTheTwilight

See-saw knock a door
Who's there?
Grandpop
What does he want?
A glass of beer
Where's your money?
In my pocket
Where's your pocket?
In my pants
Where's your pants?
They're at home
Home?
Get out of here you dirty bum!

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14 Jan 20 - 12:18 AM (#4028189)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Didn't Expect This Thread

I found this thread looking for the spelling of a nursery rhyme that my mom used to sing to us and that variation is not here. So if anyone is interested:

See Saw Margery Daw
Who's there?
Teddy bear.
What does teddy want to drink?
A glass of ... apple juice!

I have specific memories of being on the being on the swing set and her swinging it slowly with each syllable. She would pause before "apple juice" then give us a real push which would cause a lot of laughing.

She did the same thing when tickling us. Preparing to tickle up until the pause then tickling afterward.

I'm from southern New England if this helps. My mother was born in the 60s. I don't know where she learned it from.

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21 Feb 20 - 05:23 AM (#4035341)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Nancy Willner

My grandfather lived in Portsmouth, VA. He was born about 1895 in Lithuania, immigrated at age 14 and died in 1950. This rhyme has been handed down for five generations. His version ended with “Get out of here you drunken bum!” So of course every child in our family has called someone a drunken bum at an embarrassing moment. Anyway, family lore was that my grandfather made it up. Is that even possible?

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25 Feb 20 - 02:59 AM (#4035977)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: Mr Red

Update on my link from above
new page goes to & highlights the appropriate track.

I'm a Paper Lad

(opens in a new tab, so you still have this thread open also)

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27 Sep 20 - 04:36 PM (#4073380)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST

My grand kids all love this. This was my grandfather's version about 100 years ago:

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Grandpop.
Whaddaya want?
A glass of beer.
Where's your money?
In my pocket.
Where's your pocket?
In my pants.
Where's your pants?
I left them home.
Get outta here, ya dirty bum!

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17 Jan 21 - 01:26 PM (#4088450)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
From: GUEST,Mike

Here's the version I learned as a kid. I grew up in upstate NY:
Where you going
Grandpa?
Down the street
What for?
A bottle of beer
Where's your money?
In my pocket
Where's your pocket?
In my pants
Where's your pants?
Across the street
What's the number?
Cucumber!

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