Hush little baby, don't say a word, Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird (THE GAME!)

[Minibit]

I'm sure most of you are familiar with the nursery rhyme

Hush little baby, don't say a word
Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird
And if that mockingbird don't sing
Papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring
And if that diamond ring don't shine
Papa's gonna buy you a silver mine
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etcetera etcetera. I think there's a traditional ending for this song, but I always learned it as potentially infinite, you keep going until you run out of rhymes. So I thought, what a great game for a forum!

The premise is simple; we keep coming up with verses for the song in this format

Player 1: Hush little baby, don't say a word, papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird, and if that mockingbird don't sing...

Player 2: Papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring, and if that diamond ring don't shine...

etcetera, except, of course, we're going to have to come up with off-book rhymes to keep going! Basically, for each post, look at the last word, the next thing Papa's going to buy must rhyme with that word, and then you add a condition for the next person to rhyme to (ie: if that diamond ring don't SHINE, papa's gonna buy you a silver MINE)


I'll start with the verse tradition dictates, you can respond with the diamond ring if you want, but let's try to be creative!

Hush little baby, don't say a word, Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird
And if that mockingbird won't SING...

 

[Peregrine]

Papa's gonna buy you a silver wing, and if that silver wing won't fly...

 

[Falcon]

Papa's gonna buy you an apple pie.
And if the apple pie should be sour . . .

 

[Neobullseye]

Papa's gonna buy you a flower.
And it the flower doesn't bloom...

 

[Jennifer.exe]

Papa's going to give you the moon.
And if that moon should shatter...

 

[Minibit]

Papa's gonna buy you some cookie batter
And if that cookie batter ain't sweet...

 

[Peregrine]

Papa's gonna buy you a field of wheat
And if that field of wheat won't grow...

 

[Levusti]

Papa's gonna buy you pictures by van Gogh...?

And if those pictures aren't real...

 

[Minibit]

Papa's gonna buy you a spinning wheel
And if that spinning wheel won't sew...

 

[Falcon]

Papa's gonna buy you a ball to throw.
And if that ball should be lost . . .

 

[Neobullseye]

Papa's gonna buy you a Jack o'Frost
And if this frost would ever melt...

 

[Kyd Jhesus]

Papa's gonna by to a tiger pelt
and if that tiger pelt every gets dirty

 

[Neobullseye]

Papa's gonna buy you another thirty. (What? Almost nothing rhymes with dirty. >_>)
And if those pelts cannot be found...

 

[Falcon]

Papa's gonna buy you a plot of ground.
And if the ground should all wash away . . .

 

[Peregrine]

Papa's gonna buy you a winter sleigh.
And if that winter sleigh should break...

 

[RiverNotch]

Papa's gonna buy you an orange cake;
And if that cake ain't really orange;

 

[Neobullseye]

Papa's gonna beat up annoying people who mess up this game with words without rhymes >=C
*ahem*
And if those people keep on going...

 

[Falcon]

Papa's gonna buy you new cloths worth showing.
And if those brand new cloths should tare . . .

 

[MattyIce]

Papa's gonna buy you a young small hare.

And if that hare should run away...

 

[Jennifer.exe]

Papa's gonna get you a singing jay
and if that jay becomes silent