Adults may lament that today's children do not sing in the playground, but the kids know better. Hilarious, energetic, surreal, shocking and nonsensical rhymes and songs are as much in evidence today as they always were. In this book, one of Scotland's best-known storytellers introduces hundreds of such rhymes from all over the country. Some date back hundreds of years; many others have been collected on the author's personal visits to schools. The result is an entertaining anthology which also offers a fascinating insight into the minds of Scottish children over the years.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sittin on Yer Mammie’s Knee
  • Hushabaws, Baloos and Lullabies
  • Chin Chappie Mou Merry – Face-tracing
  • Dance Tae Yer Daddy – For bouncing the baby
  • Feetiken Fatiken – For manipulating fingers and toes and feet
  • Clapa Clapa – Clapping with, tickling and prodding the baby
• The Golden City – Singing games
• You Are Het – Counting and counting out
• In the Roaring Playground
  • Katie Bairdie had a Zoo – Animals
  • My Boyfriend Gave Me an Apple – Courting and marriage
  • Swing Yer Grannie Aff the Wa – Families
  • The Queen and Who Else? – Other people
  • Away Up in Holland – Travel
  • I Went to a Chinese Restaurant – Fun and stories
  • Ladies in the Tight Skirts Can’t Do This – Movement and dance
  • If You Hit the One Wee Moll – Trouble and strife
  • The Baldie Heided Master – School life
• I Sat on My Houtie Croutie
  • Memory tests and puzzles