Songs from Primary School

Oh yes, Donkey Riding, had forgotten that gem.
Hey Ho! Away we go, donkey riding, donkey riding, hey ho! Away we go riding on a donkey.
Strange one isn’t it?
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Yes Greenfinch, I remember Marianina. I was maybe 6 or 7 when we sang that at school and I still remember every word of it; it was a lovely song. Thanks for reminding me of it.

Gingster
‘With her... one eye on the pot and the other up the chimney, with a bow wow wow, fah, lah the dow-a-dilly bow,wow, wow’
How come we remember these things from over 60 years ago, but nothing actually useful? Wasn’t there a schools’ music broadcast... Time and Tune or something?

Oh BradfordLass! That song Maytime I sang at top infants. In the choir. We practiced for ages in the school hall. Then we were to sing ‘perfectly children’ as a recording was to be made.

We took our slips home. Mummy bought the recoding (a record - a thick 45rpm). We couldn’t afford a record player to play it on but mummy said ‘one day, hopefully’. It’s in her house now. She died 2y ago and I came across it a few weeks ago.

The other side we sang Spring is Coming, Spring is Coming, Birds are on the Wing

I can still recall the tunes. ? ?

Thank you SO much for nudging the memory. I was born in 1954 so the recording was probably 1958 Or 1959.

Donkey Riding, Donkey Riding

Soldier Soldier won’t you marry me

Kijay was a soldier brave

Wild Mountain Thyme ,John Anderson My Jo ,My Love is Like a Red red Rose, Blow the Wind Southerly
Seems like we sang a lot ,most Fridays were singing or watching a film then there were the Hymns, The Holiday Hymn ,Bring Flowers of the Rarest ,Take me to Thy Sacred Heart .Mother of all that is Pure and Glad,Welcome to this world of woe Oh Sacrament Divine.
I gave up on religion a long time ago but I still sing some of these while doing my housework

We sang The Farmer Wants A Wife.....is that the same?It was sang and played in the playground though and the chorus was ‘Eee, Eye Addio, the Farmer wants etc.
First the Farmer wants a wife, then a child, then other things, lastly a dog....the child chosen as the dog stood in the middle while everyone sang ‘we all pat the dog’ whilst they patted him or her ( if you had an enemy they patted you pretty hard)
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"One Friday morn when we set sail. and our ship not far from land ...."
"Cherry Ripe"

trendynanny we used to play ‘the farmers in his den’ in the playground all standing in a circle.
We also sang the Skye boat song, Marie’s Wedding, Blow the wind Southerly.

I’m trying to remember more.....

Yes, the AshGrove

The cross eyed cook is the one Ginster mentioned: with one eye on the pot and t’other up the chimney with a tow row row!

Dafydd y Garreg Wen

The Ash Grove

Calon Lan

Now The Day Is Over. - sang at the end of school day ,five days
a week !

Yes to the farmers in his den but this was a playground. Song & game. And we sand e-i tiddlyeye!
But in Class we sand songs like ‘Early one morning, Blow the wind southerly, where the bee sucks, there suck I, When icicles hang by the wall, and one about a cross eyed cook.
One I remember very well had the chorus: Jacky boy, Master, Sing ye well, Very well, Hey down, Ho down, Derry Derry down, among the leaves so green oh!

So glad others remember Marianina. The only words I can remember "come and turn us into foam"

Remember "Shenandoah" and "Camptown Races". I loved singing in school and was in the choir for the Music Festival each year. It was usually traditional Scottish songs - "Leezie Lindsay", "Willie's gane tae Melville Castle", etc - we always had lovely costumes but as I was one of the tallest in the class I was part of the castle wall with a high turreted hat - not happy that year!!!

One eye on the pot and the other up the chimney, with a bow wow wow. ‘What the heck’?

Anyone remember ‘Little brown seed, oh little brown brother’?

Oh yes Lemongrove I remember Marie’s wedding.

One which we used to sing quite a bit was called The farmers den.. the farmers in his den, the farmers in his den e i cherry pie the farmers in his den, does anyone remember this ?

We also sang many (many!) hymns, as it was a Catholic school.

I don’t remember any of those songs BradfordLass but what we all learned at primary school was influenced by the vagaries of teachers, hence most of the ones we sang were ( the ones I remember singing) The Skye Boat Song, Blow The Wind Southerly, Marie’s Wedding, Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree, The Bear Went Over The Mountain, and last but not least Oh! For The Wings Of A Dove ( surely beyond the singing talents of primary children.) ?

We learnt 'Linden Lea' to take part in a schools music festival and I've never managed to forget it!

'When a knight won his spurs' has always been one of my favourite hymns. And thanks, Greenfinch of reminding me of 'Mariannina' - although I have a sneaking feeling it might have been from when I was teaching and not when I was at school!

Greenfinch, I have long mourned the loss of ‘proper’ singers these days, and put it down to ‘ Marianina’ no longer being taught in school!
?O’er the ocean flies a merry fay?

I remember one more line from the Easter song

At Eastertime the Angels said, that Christ had risen from the dead.
At Eastertime etc

But that's all I remember.

Does anyone remember Marianina?
It is the only song I remember from Primary School.