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wentka	Sep 22, 06, 12:59 #1
My grandmother used to sing a short Polish nursery rhyme to me when I was little. She sang it in Polish (or Lithuanian, she spoke both) and it was something about a mouse hiding under a rock. Anyone know what the heck I'm talking about?

kamila	Sep 22, 06, 13:10 #2
eee... yyy... Are you sure it was a rock? :P I know only about mouse hiding in hole :P (in...? to...? yyyyh... :\| I don't know :\| )

wentka	Sep 22, 06, 13:17 #3
That could be. Does that nursery rhyme have little hand motions, like the mouse running up your arm and hiding in your armpit? Sorry, sounds silly, but that's what my grandmother used to do

Tom_PolandThreads: 1 Posts: 18 Joined: Aug 19, 06 Gender: Male	Sep 22, 06, 13:42 #4
"Uciekaj myszko do dziury, bo cię dopadnie kot bury a jak cię złapie kot bury to cię obedrze ze skóry" It starts more or less in this way: "uchekay mishko [do:] jury" But I dont have much time to provide you with a bit longer phonetic transcription of this short rhyme. Hope it will help u a bit.

babybear	Jan 15, 07, 18:52 #5
Hi, I need help too. There is a polish song that goes something like ahh ahh cookie dewa, shanda boota owbee dewa. Then is says something about Billy & Charlie. Does anyone know what I am talking about. I have been search for the words fowever and I just came across this site

Polishangel4u	Jan 15, 07, 20:34 #6
AAA kotki dwa szaro bure obydwa nic nie beda robily tylko ...... bawily you put the baby's name in the dotted space

DavidThreads: 7 Posts: 25 Joined: Jun 8, 06 Gender: Male	Jan 17, 07, 19:55 #7
what are the words in english...

krysiaThreads: 29 Posts: 3755 Joined: Aug 10, 06 Gender: Female	Edited by: krysia Jan 17, 07, 20:02 #8
Ah, Ah, kittens two both grey-brown They won't be doing anything Only play with you(name)

EurolaThreads: 5 Posts: 1873 Joined: Dec 2, 06 Gender: Female	Jan 17, 07, 22:12 #9
Quoting: wentka, Post #1 about a mouse hiding under a rock. Uciekaj, myszko, do dziury, niech cię nie złapie kot bury! Bo jak cię złapie kot bury, to cię obedrze ze skóry! Run little mouse to a hole so the grey cat will not catch you! Because if the grey cat catches you he will pull your skin off! not really nice, but maybe this was the song? Children also play a game singing this song...

wozzyThreads: 13 Posts: 229 Joined: Jul 12, 06 Gender: Male	Edited by: wozzy Feb 21, 07, 12:12 #10
thought this was quite good.................. Slimak slimak pokaz rogi ........... Snail snail show me your horns Dam ci sera na pierogi .............. I'll give you cheese for pierogi Jak nie sera to kapusty ............ If not cheese then cabage Od kapusty bedziesz tlusty ...... Off cabage you'll be plump

jeanp	Feb 27, 07, 15:10 #11
My mother recently passed away and I am left with a hole in my memory. When I was a little girl my dziadziu used to recite a little nursery rhyme to me. When my daughters were born, my mother (their babci) used to recite it to them. Try as I might while my mother was in the hospital unconcious, I could not come up with all of the words. Here is what I remember: (while tapping your index finger into the child's hand you recited): "Dziobawa, kokosczka, igelka kaczka ze wazila . . . . . . . . . . . (missing words) fyk, myk, jusz go nie byla. (while touching each one of the child's fingers you say) Te mu dala; te mu dala; te mu dala; te mu dala; te mu dala; (your hand pulls away from the child's thumb) saying frrr, poleczala. (then holding your hand like a blade you touch the child's wrist and then the elbow in a sawing motion while saying) tu piec, tu kwoda; tu piec, tu kwoda; tu piec, tu kwoda; tu piec, to kwoda; (then tickling the child under the arm you say) a tutaj zu zu woda. I did the best with the Polish, and I don't really have a translation, but for some words. If anyone can fill in these blanks for me, I would be most appreciative and I would like to continue to instill what bits of Polish heritage I can onto my grandchildren, if and when they come along. Dzienkuje bardzo!

BubbaWooThreads: 45 Posts: 4473 Joined: Sep 26, 06 Gender: Male	Feb 27, 07, 17:47 #12
Quoting: jeanp My mother recently passed away and I am left with a hole in my memory jeanp... i am sorry for your loss... ... and i am sorry that i cant help you fill in the blanks...

krysiaThreads: 29 Posts: 3755 Joined: Aug 10, 06 Gender: Female	Feb 27, 07, 19:40 #13
There are different versions: Sroczka kaszkę warzyła..dzieci swoje karmiła. Temu dała na łyżeczce. Temu dała na miseczce. Temu dała na spodeczku. Temu dała w garnuszeczku. A dla tego? Nic nie miała Frr!!! Po więcej poleciała. Tu sroczka kaszkę warzyła (grab the smallest finger and go to the next) Temu dała na łyżeczkę Temu dała na miseczkę Temu dała w rondeleczku Temu dała w garnuszeczku... (grab the thumb) A temu nic nie dała i - frrrrrr - odleciała!

sledzThreads: 26 Posts: 2981 Joined: Sep 19, 06 Gender: Male [Suspended]	Feb 27, 07, 19:47 #14
Kobieta nie starzeje się dopóty, dopóki jest pożądana.

krysiaThreads: 29 Posts: 3755 Joined: Aug 10, 06 Gender: Female	Edited by: krysia Feb 27, 07, 19:48 #15
hahahahahahah!!!! You'll end up in the trash can for that one, for sure!!! with a Big THUD!!!!

sledzThreads: 26 Posts: 2981 Joined: Sep 19, 06 Gender: Male [Suspended]	Feb 27, 07, 19:50 #16
I yhought ud like it..????

krysiaThreads: 29 Posts: 3755 Joined: Aug 10, 06 Gender: Female	Feb 27, 07, 20:07 #17
I assume you know what it means........

sledzThreads: 26 Posts: 2981 Joined: Sep 19, 06 Gender: Male [Suspended]	Feb 27, 07, 20:09 #18
Yes I do ! I`ve been crammin

krysiaThreads: 29 Posts: 3755 Joined: Aug 10, 06 Gender: Female	Feb 27, 07, 20:10 #19
Hey, so far we're still alive!!!!! but soon it's the trash can for us! Wonder how long we can do this????

sledzThreads: 26 Posts: 2981 Joined: Sep 19, 06 Gender: Male [Suspended]	Feb 27, 07, 20:17 #20
I Imagine this will do it powiedz mi, z kim sypiasz, apowiem ci, o kim snisz

krysiaThreads: 29 Posts: 3755 Joined: Aug 10, 06 Gender: Female	Feb 27, 07, 20:28 #21
That's a very popular Polish nursery rhyme!!!

sledzThreads: 26 Posts: 2981 Joined: Sep 19, 06 Gender: Male [Suspended]	Feb 27, 07, 20:33 #22
It Might work Sabota.

A66J40Threads: - Posts: 3 Joined: Mar 8, 07 Gender: Female	Mar 8, 07, 11:23 #23
what does it mean though in english can you translate

easterner	Mar 15, 07, 16:27 #24
i have been looking for the text and hopefully translation. my grandmother did it when we were little, but we didnt really know the worlds, and there is no yiddish version......

ozzie	Mar 24, 07, 22:58 #25
I so enjoyed this subject! My father used to tell me a very long-winded poem about rabbits .... but all I can recall half a century later is ... ping! pang! oi, oi, oi! umaraet zaichick moi! Anyone have a verse or two of this one?

craigphilips24Threads: 1 Posts: 7 Joined: Aug 9, 07 Gender: Male	Aug 9, 07, 15:07 #26
My girlfriend taught me this one - But I couldnt for the life of me write it in Polish!! It sounds something like this: Ee-Ja Ra-check Ne'air-bo Ra-check Yak-oo-shtyp-na Ben-jes-na-check! Ill always remember that till the day I die! Please can someone try to translate!!

DagmaraThreads: 1 Posts: 41 Joined: Dec 14, 06 Gender: Female	Aug 9, 07, 22:46 #27
Idzie raczek nieboraczek Jak uszczypnie bedzie znaczek

craigphilips24Threads: 1 Posts: 7 Joined: Aug 9, 07 Gender: Male	Aug 10, 07, 05:26 #28
Quoting: Dagmara Dagmara - ''Idzie raczek nieboraczek Jak uszczypnie bedzie znaczek'' Thank you so much! What exactly does it mean though? Something about a small creature trying to bite you I heard?

KangurThreads: 1 Posts: 7 Joined: Aug 10, 07 Gender: Female	Aug 10, 07, 07:03 #29
I'll have a go, eventhough I'm only an amateur and not a very good one at that .... Here comes crab, not a beetroot When you fall asleep, there will be a stamp.

glowaThreads: 1 Posts: 312 Joined: Apr 6, 06 Gender: Male	Aug 10, 07, 07:10 #30
Here comes a little crab (a little cancer to be exact) nieboraczek (this word has no meaning really, an invented word that rhymes with 'raczek') when it stings/tweaks you there will be a mark

krysiaThreads: 29 Posts: 3755 Joined: Aug 10, 06 Gender: Female	Edited by: krysia Aug 10, 07, 07:13 #31
Raczek is a crayfish. Cancer is a disease :)

glowaThreads: 1 Posts: 312 Joined: Apr 6, 06 Gender: Male	Edited by: glowa Aug 10, 07, 07:18 #32
I had no idea! really! :) but in a horoscope there's cancer, too, am I a disease, then? sh..., this could really scare a child, i mean singing to it about a disease anyway, new day, new word ;) everything's fine cheers, Krysia

KrzysztofThreads: 3 Posts: 1227 Joined: Jul 26, 07 Gender: Male	Aug 10, 07, 17:56 #33
Quoting: glowa nieboraczek (this word has no meaning really that's not quite right, it's a diminuitive of "nieborak" from PWN lexicon: nieborak «ze współczuciem o człowieku lub zwierzęciu» so it's someone/something poor, unhappy, unlcky poor soul/thing

beatusiaThreads: - Posts: 11 Joined: Jun 22, 07 Gender: Female	Aug 12, 07, 12:26 #34
my mother used to sing that one I did the same. It is used more in a kind of tickle game. its not scary

buniaThreads: 1 Posts: 166 Joined: May 27, 07 Gender: Female	Aug 12, 07, 13:38 #35
My mother used to say: Cos pod debem stuknelo Cos pod debem huknelo A to komar z deby spadl I polamal w pupie gnat Now i know why i turned out like i am :)

Softsong	Sep 1, 07, 14:22 #36
Hmmmm....my grandmother used to say something to me. And it had the same meter to it as the poster above's little crab stinging, and leaving a mark. I have no idea how to spell it in Polish....but can say it....I think the meaning is something like: "Oh Stella, Oh Stella, (Stephanie?) East saurakraut and you will have a fat behind." When I say it in Poish, people laugh a lot, but the translation does not seem that funny to me. Anyone hear of such a nursey rhyme? Last line sounds like...beenja mowa, dubcha twista (sorry for bad phonetics) LOL

plk123Threads: 16 Posts: 4307 Joined: Aug 29, 07 Gender: Male	Sep 1, 07, 15:40 #37
Quoting: craigphilips24 Ee-Ja Ra-check Ne'air-bo Ra-check Yak-oo-shtyp-na Ben-jes-na-check! that's freaking awesome.. lol the version i recall is this: Idzie rak nieborak Jak uszczypnie bedzie znak

plk123Threads: 16 Posts: 4307 Joined: Aug 29, 07 Gender: Male	Edited by: plk123 Sep 1, 07, 15:41 #38
Quoting: Krzysztof "nieborak" = someone/something poor, unhappy, unlcky poor soul/thing yeah man.

PMcgurkThreads: - Posts: 1 Joined: Sep 25, 07 Gender: Male	Sep 25, 07, 07:23 #39
My late mother used to sing us a song when we were small children. I only remember the first couple of lines. Jedzie koń, jedzie koń, kopytami bije, Uciekaj dziewczynko, bo cię koń zabije. Does anyone know how the rest of the song goes or perhaps might be able to translate these two lines? Thanks for your help

sledzThreads: 26 Posts: 2981 Joined: Sep 19, 06 Gender: Male [Suspended]	Edited by: sledz Sep 25, 07, 10:15 #40
I like nursery rhymes...the truth lskerton.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/nursery.html

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