Say say oh playmate i cannot play with you my dolly s got the flu boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.
Shout down my rain barrel slide down my cellar door.
Look down my rain barrel slide down my cellar door and we ll be jolly friends forever more chorus 1 but she couldn t come out and play it was a rainy day with tearful eye she breathed a sigh.
Ain t got no rain barrel ain t got no cellar door but we ll be jolly friends forever more more more.
Shout down my rain barrel slide down my cellar door and we ll be jolly friends forever more more more more more.
Climb up my apple tree.
Ain t got not rain barrel ain t got no cellar door but we ll be jolly friends forever more more more.
So sorry playmate i cannot play with you.
Second verse courtesy of vicki leigh.
And we ll be jolly friends forever more.
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Look 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 and i could hear her say i m sorry playmate i cannot play with you my dolly s got the flu boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo ain t got no rain barrel ain t got no cellar door.
Maples and ava guinn of oklahoma city said it was written by saxie dowell and published in 1940 by.
Shout down my rain barrel slide down my cellar door and we ll be jolly friends forever more more more more more.
A reader wrote that there was a neighborhood controversy about the playmates song it seems no one will agree whether you look down my rain barrel shout down my rain barrel holler down my rain barrel cry down my rain barrel or marty morgensen j a.
Say say oh playmate i cannot play with you my dolly s got the flu boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.
Slide down my rain barrel into my cellar door and we ll be jolly friends forever more more more.
Climb up my apple tree.
Ain t got no rain barrel ain t got no cellar door but we ll be jolly friends forever more more more more more.
Wingate and petrie followed it up in the same year with an even more popular sequel i don t want to play in your yard which containted the phrase you ll be sorry when you see me sliding down our cellar door.
Cry down my rain barrel slide down my cellar door.
But we ll be jolly friends.
My dolly s got the flu.
Can t cry down your rain barrel or slide down your cellar door.
Look 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.
Shout down my rain barrel slide down my cellar door and we ll be jolly friends forevermore.