One I learned in kindergarten:
Trick or treat, smell my feet
give me something good to eat
if you don’t, I don’t care
I’ll pull down your underwear!
This is extremely widespread. Variations with and without the underwear references go back to at least the 1960s, and I’d guess they go back to at least the 1940s. Probably not much before that, as trick or treating really only goes back to about the 1930s (Yes, I know the stories about it going back to the druids, etc. There are plenty of OTHER holidays with “ritual begging” that are similar, but trick or treating got started in the states circa the 30s).
What did you hear?
There’s a bit more about Halloween customs and their origin in the ebook, not to mention over on our sister site, HalloweenSpecials.net
Trick or treat, smell my feet,
Give me something good to eat,
Not too big, not to small,
Just the size of Montreal!
(Thunder Bay, northwestern Ontario, 1970s and 80s)
to DrOvi: do you know from where your version hails? i’d love to know what it takes to “grief” one’s underwear.
and yes, i realize this is a tad bit late in the continuum of the universe, seeing your verse was added about 6.5 years ago, and i’m just past all-hallows-eve, 2018. my apologies, if desired
Trick or Trut
Smell my butt
Take me out to Pizza Hut
Iowa, 1980s
Trick or treat, smell my feet,
Give me something good to eat,
Not too big, not to small,
Just the size of Montreal!
(central Alberta, 1970s and 80s)
I remember hearing the version by those two commenters in the 90s as well when I grew up.
Trick or treat, smell my feet,
Give me something good to eat!
Michigan, USA (1969 and 1970s)
trick or treat smell my feet give me something good to eat no too big not too small just the size of montreal!!!:)
i see london i see france i see ghosties underpants
trick or treat pretty please something better than my feet
wow
perrfact
trick or treat smell my feet give me something good to eat if you don't i don't care i will wave your underpants everywere
trick or treat, smell my feet
give me something good to eat
if you don't just beware, i might show you my underwear.
trick or treat smell my feet give me something good to eat if you don't i don't care i'll take a picture of your underware ps just beware (evily said)
trick or treat smell my toes… AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Trick Or Treat,
Eat My Feet,
Give me lots of Yummy Sweets,
If you don’t,
I won’t care,
I’ll just yank off all your hair.
If you’re bald,
You’ll be recalled,
You drink hot water,
It will scald
Naples, Italy 1990’s – 2010’s
trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat, if you don't, I DON'T CARE, maybe i'll just pull your hair, maybe i'll take your underwear, everyone is gonna stare, at your, hair. Just tryna be fair!!!
Trick or treat, smell my feet,
Give me something good to eat,
Not too big, not to small,
Just the size of Montreal!
(Toronto, early 2000s)
I also heard another version:
Trick or treat, smell my feet,
Give me something good to eat,
Not too big, not to small,
Just the size of Fairview Mall!
(Area around Fairview Mall, Toronto, early 2000s)
but that's cuz I lived near Fairview Mall
Trick or treat
smell my feet
give me something good to eat
If you don't
I don't care
I'll just chew my underwear.
Phoenix, Arizona, late 60's
You’ll just chew your underwear one is nasty and I’m sure the person hearing it wouldn’t care cause it’s not them chewing it lol
Trick or treat
smell my feet
give me something good to eat
if you con't
I don't care
I'll put a bug in your underwear!
Trick or treat
Smell my feet
Gimme something good to eat
If you dare
I don't care
I'll just grief your underwear!
By DrOvi. LOL
The line we used when our parents and teachers forbade the underwear one was "I'll throw candy everywhere".
I used to sing this when I was young and it felt very great. Thank you very much.
Trick or Treat smell my feet
Give me something good to eat
If you don't I don't care
You can smell my underwear!
thats the one i know 🙂
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
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A few of us naughty kids would say:
Trick or treat, smell my feet
Beat your meat on the toilet seat
Southern California, early 70's
My Neice's Teacher taughter her:
Trick or treat
smell my feet
give me something
good to eat
If you don't
I don't Care
I'll just make some toast instead
(Palastine, Texas 2012)
Trick er treat
Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat
If u don't I don't care ill pull down your underwear
It's not red
It's not blue
It's just filled with pee & poo
Oops… I don't know that was connected to the account w pic of my kids
I too have flat feet or fallen arches and no it is not considered a dissability! You need to get insoles in your shoes, you can buy these from most supermarkets and pharmacies. If it is giving you so much trouble go and speak to your Doctor!
http://www.footcentersofnc.com/common-foot-problems/flat-feet.html
DICK OR MEAT
DICK MEAT
trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat, if you don't, I DON'T CARE i'll just cut your hair and put it in your underwear everyone Just trying be fair!!!
Milwaukee Wisconsin mid 80s
Trick or treat
smell our feet
give us something good to eat
If you don't
we don't care
we'll just put money in your underwear.
Another version (Alone *ONLY YOU*)
Trick or treat
smell my feet
give me something good to eat
If you don't
I don't care
I'll just put money in your underwear.
Funny!
Ours was easy:
First the worst
Second the best
Third they all go down the drain
Last's the best of all the game
(Molteno, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 1990's)
Trick or Treat,
Smell my Feet,
Give me something good to eat.
If you won't
I don't care
I've got bulletproof underwear.
Circa 1970s, northern N.J.
This was what we said in the late 80's/early 90's in the Midwest. I had never heard the other versions.
This was what we said in the late 80's/early 90's in the Midwest. I had never heard the other versions.
Trick or treat, smell my feet, if you die, you'll know why.
Detroit, 1960s
Trick or treat
Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat
If you don't
I won't lie
I will stab you in the eye
Florida, early 2000s
In Winnipeg in the 1990s, we used the same variation of the jingle as Paul and Anonymous said were used in Thunder Bay and central Alberta in the 1970s and 1980s:
Trick or treat, smell my feet,
Give me something good to eat,
Not too big, not to small,
Just the size of Montreal!
The origins of the the rhyme comes from a series of childrens story books called "My Book House" It came with a parent teaching index for holidays, cultural customs, famous personages, etc. The true and actual original rhyme goes as follows: "Trick or Treat, can you please, give us something, good to eat. Or a trick, that's really quick, that I can do, licketysplit. Happy Halloween!" I've been trying to educate people to say it correctly for 50 years. I even have a decorative plaque with it inscribed on it i hang next to my front door every year. those who say it right get candy and money from me. those who don't get a magic trick.
We always sang the underwear version but I've recently heard a different version that went
Trick or Treat
Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat
If you don't, I won't be sad
I'll just make you wish you had.
Trick or treat
Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat
If you don't I'd beware
Their be TP everywhere
Trick or treat, smell my feet
give me something good to eat
not an apple not a pear
if you don't, I don't care
I'll pull down your underwear!
Swing swing swing on a summer day heyhey
Im a little 4th grader
as cute as I can be be
and all the boys are laughing at me me
my boyfriends name is jello
he lives in alabama
he picks his nose and his 24 toes
and this is how my story goes,
one day I was walking
I saw my boy friend talking
to the ugliest girl in the whole wide world
and this is what she said ,
she said I l.o.v.e love u
I k.i.s.s kiss you ,
with a whole in my heart
and a big black dart
this is what I said
I said s.t.o.p
SSSSTTTTOOOOPPPP!!!!
Trick or treat smell my feet give me something good to eatif you donf i dont care ill just pull down your underwear.
TRICK OR TREAT! SMELL MY FEET GIVE ME SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT! IF YOU DON’T GIVE ME A TREAT I WILL TRICK YOU BY STEALING ALL THE CANDY!
By 12 or 13 yo we had our own less whimsical version.
Trick or Treat
Forget my feet.
Come whiff deze nuts
And puke your guts.
Trick or treat
Smell my feet
Feet are made of dirty meat
Mississippi, 1950s
Trick or Treat
Smell me guts
Give me some candy to eat
I don’t care
If you don’t
I will wreck you undies
Trick or Treat
Smell my feet!
Give me something else to eat!
If you don’t, I will cry,
Then I’ll call the FBI
Trick or treat, smell my feet,
Give me something good to eat,
Not too big, not to small,
Just the size of Montreal!
(Porto, Portugal 2000s)
Trick or treat, smell my feet,
Give me something good to eat,
If you don’t, I don’t care,
I’ll put spiders in your hair
(Southern California 2010’s)
I love this thread! Was looking for a short easy rhyme for my 5 & 7 year old kids to recite when they go trick or treating in the UK tonight. I tweaked some of the versions above to make this rhyme…
Trick or treat, smell my feet
give me something good to eat
if you don’t, I don’t care
I’ll make mischief everywhere!
I really love the one Scarlette Spider posted above too…
Trick or Treat, can you please,
give us something, good to eat.
Or a trick, that’s really quick,
that I can do, licketysplit.
Happy Halloween!
Trick or Treat,Smell my feet,give me something good to eat,if you give a grapefruit,i take off your comfy boots
I heard one I don’t know what came after smell my feet I remember the ending said “You better hide in your room tonight.”
I was born in 1952 and never heard this until my own kids started using it in the late 1980s to early 1990s.
Trick or Treat, Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat
Not too big, not too small
Just the size of city hall.
(70,80 Ohio)