Polish Nursery Rhymes

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?

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 :| )

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 :)

"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.

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

AAA kotki dwa
szaro bure obydwa
nic nie beda robily
tylko ...... bawily

you put the baby's name in the dotted space

what are the words in english...

Ah, Ah, kittens two
both grey-brown
They won't be doing anything
Only play with you(name)

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...

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

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!

jeanp... i am sorry for your loss...

... and i am sorry that i cant help you fill in the blanks...

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!

Kobieta nie starzeje się dopóty, dopóki jest pożądana.

hahahahahahah!!!!
You'll end up in the trash can for that one, for sure!!! with a Big THUD!!!!

I yhought ud like it..????:)

I assume you know what it means........:)

Yes I do ! :)

I`ve been crammin

Hey, so far we're still alive!!!!! but soon it's the trash can for us!
Wonder how long we can do this????

I Imagine this will do it

powiedz mi, z kim sypiasz, apowiem ci, o kim snisz

That's a very popular Polish nursery rhyme!!!

It Might work Sabota.:)

what does it mean though in english can you translate

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......

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?

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!!

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?

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.

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