"I Gave My Love a Cherry" I grew up with too, and still love!
Yay!
I don't really know "Tumbalalayka"; when we can visit in person, I will ask you to repay me for Partem Portem by singing it for me.
Gladly! What is the point of the folk tradition otherwise?
The first sent a [person 1 fills in the present here -- an X without any Y, or whatever]
So either you need to know other riddle songs to crib from or you need to be able to think really fast. That's brilliant and as soon as I ran through the variations named above, I would die.
I'll ask my mom about it next time I talk to her, because she's the one who grew up actually singing it on car trips more.
I'd love to hear what she says. I don't think I have ever encountered a riddle-contest in the wild as opposed to deeply formative books of my childhood.
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Yay!
I don't really know "Tumbalalayka"; when we can visit in person, I will ask you to repay me for Partem Portem by singing it for me.
Gladly! What is the point of the folk tradition otherwise?
The first sent a [person 1 fills in the present here -- an X without any Y, or whatever]
So either you need to know other riddle songs to crib from or you need to be able to think really fast. That's brilliant and as soon as I ran through the variations named above, I would die.
I'll ask my mom about it next time I talk to her, because she's the one who grew up actually singing it on car trips more.
I'd love to hear what she says. I don't think I have ever encountered a riddle-contest in the wild as opposed to deeply formative books of my childhood.