Nickels, Pickles and Chewing Gum

Getting my 8 year-old granddaughter to memorize something to exercise her brain wasn’t my intention, but itsure turned out to be fun for us both.

As I drove her to my house for a sleepover, we heard this song with the silliestlyrics ever on Kids Place Live.Choo’n Gum, sungbyTeresa Brewer with Jimmy Lytell & the Dixieland All Stars, was a Billboard hit in 1950: “A wing zingy slicing of a spirited novelty built around the virtually traditional ‘My Ma Gave Me A Nickel’ child chant.”

We were so c...