Lyrics Turn Back the Clock (Schoolyard Playground Rhymes Song) - Allan Sherman

Turn Back the Clock (Schoolyard Playground Rhymes Song)

Turn back the clock
And recall what you did
Back on the block where
You lived as a kid
And if you think every kid nowadays
Is a nut or a kook or a fool
Just turn back the clock
And recall what you said
When you were a kid in school
Ah, your mother wears army shoes!
Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah
Teacher, teacher, I declare
I see your purple underwear
Margarite, go wash your feet
The board of health’s across the street
Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice
Pull down your pants and slide on the ice
Inka binka, bottle of ink
The cork fell out and you stink
Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah
Mary had a little lamb
The doctor was surprised!
Mary had a little lamb
She also had a bear
I’ve often seen her little lamb
But I’ve never seen her bare
Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah
Roses are red, violets are blue
I copied your paper and I flunked too
Roses are red, violets are blue
Whenever it rains, I think of you — drip, drip, drip!
Roses are red, violets are blue
I still say your mother wears army shoes!
Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah
Your mother is a burglar
Your father is a spy
And you’re the dirty little rat
Who told the F.B.I
Dirty Lil, Dirty Lil
Lives on top of Garbage Hill
Never took a bath and never will
Yuck, pooey, Dirty Lil
Oh what a face, oh what a figure
Two more legs and you’d look like Trigger!
L M N O goldfish
S A R 2 goldfish, C M?
Turn back the clock
And recall what you did
Back on the block where
You lived as a kid
And if you think every kid nowadays
Is a nut or a kook or a fool
Just turn back the clock
And recall what you said
When you were a kid in school
There goes your father wearing your mother’s army shoes!