My Mom also sang “Slide down my rain-barrel”. I visualized it as the drain pipe down the side of the house to the rain-barrel.
“I Love You a Bushel and a Peck” was another memorable song of my childhood.
There were a couple of others from my childhood .... “Five Little Fishes in a Little Bitty Pool” and “Mares Eat Oats”.
These memories are wonderful. Thanks for sharing them.
Three or four years ago, T’wit directed me to a Web Site where you could hear many of these songs. I wonder if I can find it.
RIP T’wit.
Hope you find it~~~
“Mares Eat Oats and Doe’s eat Oats and little Lambs eat Ivy”...A kid’ll eat Ivy too, wouldn’t you? hum..hum...
My grandma had a huge ‘rain-barrel at the corner of her house in the back yard. It caught the runoff rain, and was always full of water. She used that water to water all her flowers in her many gardens. (She had a pump for water at her kitchen sink. No running water.)