Recognise this silly song?

Urmstongran I've pinched that one as I'm sure my dgs will love it too.

arose Yes, I know that one very well. The verse goes....

^Many a year ago in old Sorrento
A certain ditty was quite the thing
Whenever a mother rocked her baby in Sorrento
This little ditty she used to sing^

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSmMpVClIVM

My dad used to sing this to me...

Chi-baba, Chi-baba, Chihuahua
Enjilava kooka la goomba
Chi-baba, Chi-baba, Chihuahua
My bambino go to sleep
Chi-baba, Chi-baba, Chihuahua
Enjilava kooka la goomba
Chi-baba, Chi-baba, Chihuahua
My bambino go to sleep

I found out a little while ago from Mr Google that it was a song by Perry Como

Blinko, JaneA, GabriellaG54
Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy,
A kid'l eat ivy too, wouldn't you?
Those are the words that I learned. Across the sea from you. Small world, isn't it?

Theses ‘nonsense’ song/rhymes BradfordLass72 are weird aren’t they?
My dad was in the Royal Navy and he taught me this one, which I’ve just taught our 6 year old grandson (much to his and my delight!) ...

‘R. R. chick a rar
Chick a rar Rooney
Rooney Pooney
Ping Pong Piney
Al a Bala Whiskey
Chinese Chum’

A load of absolute bluddy nonsense isn’t it?
Yet I learnt it from dad over 50 years ago now.

Where on earth did this rhyme originate??

Bellowhead's amazing version of Lillibulero:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLHYxoEgrKQ

My FIL, had an army song called My Brother Sylveste. It had audience participation and was hilarious. We played it after his funeral. Thank goodness fir YouTube.

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Thank you for all these lovely replies, Daymars especially. My Mum knew lots of silly songs, including the Mairsey Doazts so familiar to everyone here. Thank s again.

With the word 'kiltie' in it, it sounds Scottish or Scots Irish. Doesn't ring a bell with me and my Scottish grandmother had a wealth of these songs. As GabriellaG54 says it could be Indian. A lot of the Scottish and Irish regiments served in India and no doubt brought local songs and games back with them. I played one such a game as a child. I happened, in later life as a teacher, to show a video on Hinduism to my class and this game was in it. I said I'd played it as a child and was asked if I had been born in India by the pupils who hailed from that area. I wasn't. I assumed the troops had brought it home and played it with their kids. Look up old childhood songs on the net and you get several sites about them.

It hasn't worked. But you can google it and hear the tune too.

This is beginning to remind me of the old 17th Century song 'Liliburlero'. I'll try a link...

Lilliburlero - Folk Song Lyrics
folk-lyrics.co.uk/Lyrics/Lilliburlero

Hmmmm, sounds a bit like a nonsense song from a Disney film from way back when.

Dear Bradford lass72--I am 84yrs old and Welsh and my father used to sing this song to me and my brother and also my sons,who are now in their late fifties,and we all still remember the words!!! but to slightly different spellings??!!--coyminero, coyminero,coyminero,coymi--pinstrimstridadle arabone a ringtone,arigma,abullitin, macoymi!,!!!!?‍?‍?‍??‍?‍?‍? --definitely not Welsh,my Dad said it was Double Dutch ??!!--happy memories of simple,no cost FUN

BBbevan
I've just been teaching a version of that, although I can't remember who taught me.

There's always Tarara Boom De Ay....

Bradfordlass, your song sounds Gaelic to me- I wonder if it is?
My grandparents and their parents were great music- hall goers in late 19th and early 20th century London, so the songs they sang to us were by Marie Lloyd and others. I’ve passed them on to my children and grandchildren. My granddaughter loves “My old man said follow the van” and “Oh, oh, Antonio.”

My Gran used to sing a song based on one's name
As in
Mary, tye tairy
Tiddly airy, fy fairy
Fy fairy, tiddly airy
That's how you spell Mary
Never heard it since though my DGDs love it

Also There was an old man called Michael Finnegan
And Tiddlywinks the barber

BradfordLass72
Before I read to the end of your post, I thought it sounded rather Indian in flavour.
Blinko
Yes, mum sang that song and many more.
'...a kid'll eat ivy too
Wouldn't you?'
Pack up your troubles...
The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
She's my lady love
MacNamara's band
My old man...
Dad's favourite was ' Tangerine...she is all they claim...' etc which he sang in spurts whilst shaving.
I know all the words to those songs plus the poems Hiawatha, The Pied Piper of Hamelin (favourite) and The Walrus and the Carpenter.
I love poetry, especially old funny ones where you can do accents.

Blinko - yes it is. You're not wrong. It's just the way it's sung.

I always thought the song was: Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.... looks like I could be wrong.

I did hear about some smarty pants in the 70s who scrawled on an official looking notice board of Mersey Docks and Harbour Board '...and little lambs eat ivy'.

Maizy Doates and Dozy Doates used to be my party piece when I was little.

Oh dear - i remember about 30 years ago doing Maizy doates and Dozy doates in a game of charades.
Suprisingly, one person got it ?
Evefyone else thought it was a song they had never heard of until we sang it for them - cue much hilarity and jibes about 'the youth of today'!

Ahh...memories of my Mum and I singing Mairzy Doats. Happy times

Although Granny Shark has no teeth! Hi

I must admit I quite like the 'Baby Shark' one. Grans even get a mention in it.