Had to laugh 🤣

We used to skip to this in London
The big ship sails on the Alley Alley Oo
The Alley Alley Oo
The valley Alley Oo
The big Ship sails on the Alley Alley Oo
On the last day of September

The Captain said it would never never do
Never never do
Never never do
The Captain said it would never never do
On the Last Day of September.
The ship sank, that was the next verse.
And
R White’s
Ginger Beer
Goes off Pop
With a penny on the bottle
When you take it to the shop.
Funny how they stick in your mind. I would have been 6 or 7.

gentleshores
Thanks for the reminders. That round started I went to the animal fair.

3 jelly fish, 3 jelly fish, 3 jelly fi-i-i-ish, sitting on a rock. One fell off. Aaaah
2 jelly fish etc.
After no jelly fish sitting in a rock we sang one jumped on again then
1 jelly fish . . . etc until you got back to 3.

We sang all the gruesome verses of
Where have you been, Henry my son?
Where have you been, my beloved one?
To the woods, dear Mother,
To the woods, dear Mother,
Oh Mother come quick
‘Cause I feel very sick
And I want to lay down and die.
And, my DGC’s favourite was a long story about a woman and a pig. I don’t remember it all, but the end was

the cat began to kill the rat
the rat began to gnaw the rope
the rope began to hang the butcher
the butcher began to kill the ox
the ox began to drink the water
the water began to quench the fire
the fire began to burn the stick
the stick began to beat the dog
the dog began to bite the pig
the pig jumped over the stile
and so the old woman got home that night.

Bonnybanko

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly I don’t know why she swallowed a fly
She swallowed the fly to catch a bird how absurd to cath a bird etc etc
Or I spy with my little eye
3 craws sat upon a wall
There were 10 in the bed and the little one said - roll over
10 green bottles
Many childhood songs

Sang all of these with grandson when he was little. Nice to relive them and pass them on :-) Ten green bottles is actually a great way to learn to count! I think that was what it was about.

Likewise 10 in the bed was a good counting song :-) Don't know the 3 craws one.

I spy we played for years on car journeys with grandson - so many laughs! It got sillier and sillier.

Also tongue twisters (most remind me of my Dad).

Red leather, yellow leather (repeat)

She sells sea shells on the sea shore.

A song I remember from the school bus (in the North East) the girls used to sing was

My Mama told me, if I was goody, that she would buy me, a rubber dolly. My Auntie told her, I kissed a soldier, now she won't buy me, a rubber dolly.

And one that was a "round" song. Something something fair, all the birds and beasts were there. The big baboon by the light of the moon was combing his golden hair. The Monkey jumped out of his bunk, and slid down the elephant's trunk. The elephant sneezed and fell on his knees and what became of the Monkey, monkey, monkey (repeat).

One half would keep singing monkey monkey while the other half started the song again and then swap!

That poor, poor lady. What on earth must have been going through her mind to do that? And how distressing for the rest of you to witness it.

Ahh, poor soul.
It is a mournful song, and under those circumstances all the more so.

I imagined the nurses bustling along and saying "come on dear, let's go back to bed, there's a good girl..."

My exes daughter would run away if he threatened to sing it.

No they didn’t MissAdventure. They ignored it. Trouble was she taught at a local school and was known th several of us as she had been our children’s class teacher. Poor girl, I believe she did eventually have a child and then had the most awful post natal depression. Whenever I hear that song I see her standing there in her nightie and singing .

I wasn't sure what to say, and I'm still not.
I wanted to ask if the staff came in and ushered her back to bed, but it seemed insensitive.

How interesting that no one has commented on my post.
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My friend always though that the Eddie Grant song said "We're gonna rock down to electrical canoe!"

I would be seriously embarrassed to admit what age I was before I deriddled Mairsie Dotes. Just thought it was a nonsense song and settled for that..........

My kids were brought up with The Singing Kettle, great songs, we were all word perfect 😂 Often saw them in Inverness.

I used to love 'The ugly bugs ball'

Sadly when I was in a female ward in hospital, many moons ago, a young woman came in for a D&C, after losing her baby. One evening she stood in the middle of the ward and sang that song. We were all shocked and upset, as you a well imaging. Never sang it again.

After the ball was over…. Another funny one

There are many versions.
Mother's Lament, it's called

Even a version by Cream!

That's it!!!!!
It was sung mournfully.
I'm off to see if I can find it on youtube.

Very cockney yiddisher:-

Mi bibi ‘as gorn dawn the plug’ole
Mi bibi ‘as gorn dawn the drink
The poor little thing
Was so wasted and thin
He shud ‘ave bin barfed in the sink

Music hall I think

Ah, that might be it.

I don't think it was exclusive to Scotland. We used to sing it to.the.tune.of. "My Bonny lies over the ocean

Is there a Scottish rhyme about a baby falling down a plug hole?
My ex used to sing it to his (18 year old!) daughter, and her eyes would still fill with tears.

I assume she was taught it as a little girl.

Our eldest DgD burst into tears when she heard the second verse about shoving your daddy mammie off the bus, because she couldn’t do that to me

or not it. Sorry

Mares eat oats
And does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy
A kid will eat ivy too
Wouldn’t you?
Sang it said very quickly.
I think it came from a 1930’s film

Neilspurgeon0

Similarly,

Nobody likes me
everybody hates me,
I’m going into the garden to eat worms! Long thin, slimy ones, slip down easily Short, fat, fuzzy ones (said in a choking voice)
stick!

No body loves me, everybody hates me. Think I’ll go out and eat worms
Long thin wiggly ones
Short fat squiggly ones
See how the little ‘uns squirm
Bite their heads off, suck all the juice out
Frow their skins away
Nobody know how well we’ll thrive
On worms three times a day

This has entertained generations of children and grandchildren enroute to school.

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly I don’t know why she swallowed a fly
She swallowed the fly to catch a bird how absurd to cath a bird etc etc
Or I spy with my little eye
3 craws sat upon a wall
There were 10 in the bed and the little one said - roll over
10 green bottles
Many childhood songs