Swiss-German children's ditty/chant

ess_choggie · 16 December 2008 21:50

Would any of the native schwiizerdütsch speakers here happen to know the words of a children's ditty or chant that begins "rä-gä-schirm..."? Some years ago I observed a few youngin's marching along as they recited it, and now I'm curious as to what they were saying.

leophillalo · 16 December 2008 22:04

Ragewater, ragewater, s tropfet alles alss ischt nass. ragewater ragewater, stropfet us em Wulchefass

This one?

mamart · 16 December 2008 22:10

For the record, I pasted that into Google's translate function, chose "detect language" and got this in return:

ess_choggie · 16 December 2008 22:55

No, but I like that one anyway. (Thanks for sharing it.) The one I heard definitely began "rä - gä - schirm..."

I'll tale a (rough) stab at improving on Google:

Rainy weather, rainy weather, it drizzles everything all wet.

Rainy weather, rainy weather, it drizzles from the cloud vat.

pcssrobe · 21 December 2008 22:09

Räge, Räge Tröpfli, es rägnet uf mis Chöpfli.

Wenn's rägnet wärdet Blüemli nass und alli Steinli uf de Gass.

This is a nursery rhyme song.

ess_choggie · 22 December 2008 18:21

Thanks for that one, too — but it's still not the one I heard.

Maybe it was something unique to those kids I observed in Winterthur.

alphen · 17 January 2009 13:52

i think i know which one you mean: und eis und zwei und drü und vier und foif und sechs und siebe-acht, en huet, en stock, en rägeschirm und vorwärts, rückwärts, sitwärts, marsch.

in english, while your walking: and one and two and three and four and five and six and seven-eight, a hat, a stick, an umbrella and forward, backwards, sideways, march.

leophillalo · 17 January 2009 14:11

..............and memories of past 'schulreisen' pop up we did that walking in zig-zag* along whilst chanting this thanks for a trip down memory lane

* either we formed a chain by linking arms and then moved all our left leg sideways over the neighbours right leg,next step the opposite.........

*Or we just walked along and made charade like movements with e huet(hat) stock (stick) räääägeschirm (brolly)

ess_choggie · 19 January 2009 21:16

Thanks — this could be the one, but without seeing/hearing it, I can't be sure. EastEnders' reminiscing sure brings to my mind what I saw the kids doing as they stomped along the sidewalk, even if it wasn't the same ditty.