Perhaps the best known taunt of them all has several different second lines:
Liar, liar, pants on fire
sitting on a telephone wire
ALternate second lines include:
Hang them on a telephone wire
and
Nose as long as a telephone wire.
All go back to at least the early 1940s. I suspect that “nose as long as a telephone wire” is the “original,” if only because it makes the most sense.
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liar liar, pants on fire
hair sticking up like a telephone wire
Newcastle, UK
1980-90's
Liar, Liar, pants on fire
Hang your britches on a wire
Hang them high
Hang them low
Hang them in a britches show
Liar, Liar, pants on fire
Tail as long as a telephone wire
South Africa (late 1960s and 1970s)
Canada, early 2000
Liar, liar, pants on fire
hanging on a silver wire.
Liar, Liar, pants on fire
Hanging on a telephone wire
Might be pink
Might be blue
Might be full of doggy-doo!
California 1960's
liar liar pants on fire hanging from a telephone wire<when your there cut your hair and shove down your underwear.canada 1980
Liar, liar, pants on fire! Bet you can't jump over a telephone wire! (Indiana, USA late 1970's/early 1980's)
Liar liar pants on fire
i like cats
meow
Liar liar pants on fire
Hang your britches on a wire
Hang em high, hang em low
Hang em on your teacher's nose!
(Florida/Georgia 1970s-1980s)
My cousins came home singing
" liar liar pants on fire
Throw your mother into the fire"
What do you say to that
(Bakersfield California 2014-2015
liar liar knickers on fire, your tits got caught on the telephone wire. yorkshire, uk (circa 1977)
Liar liar pants on fire
Show your butt to Canadian Tire
Canada (2011ish is the furthest back I could find to 2015 when my kid is in school)
I am from Missouri, and my friends agree that it was always,
“Liar, liar, pants on fire,
sitting on a telephone wire…..” 🙂
Liar, liar, pants on fire,
Can’t get through the chicken wire.
One two three four,
Can’t get through the kitchen door.
-Heard from my parents who grew up in rural Indiana in the 60s.
Liar liar, pants on fire
Your d*ck is stuck on a telephone wire
Liar liar pants on fire
Bums sticking out of a handsome wire
(the weired version that caused us to look this up, Bath 2017)
Liar liar pants on fire
You make my dick wanna go haywire
It might be red it might be blue
but when it’s in you’ll say woo hoo
-babykells
From Akron Ohio playgrounds in the 1970’s:
Liar liar,
pants on fire,
lie so high,
like a telephone wire.
I didn’t say it made sense.
Liar liar plants for hire
(heard on SpongeBob)
Liar liar pants on fire.
Hang your butt with a telephone wire
Trinidad TX November 19th 1836 2:46 pm on a snowy day
Liar, Liar, pants on fire
Can’t jump over the telephone wire
Florida
Lia liar pants on fire. Hanging from a telephone wire. I don’t care. They’re floating down the Delaware. Just smile. He comes Mr. crocodile.
Liar liar pants on fire
Hanging from a telephone wire
2nd line “hanging from a telephone wire” invented in 1973 in Muscatine, Iowa
California in early 2010s
Liar Liar Pants on Fire
Shaving On a Telephone Wire
While You’re There
Cut Your Hair
Put your hair in your underwear*
*Optional Add on to Ending: I’ll kick your buttocks in the air!*
Liar liar pants on fire
Hanging on a telephone wire
Hang them high
Hang them low
Hang them in a gravy bowl
MS – 70s